This Land Is Your Land: Elisheba Johnson
Are you in a situationship with your home town? What does it mean to belong to Seattle in the 2020s? Interloper hosts a conversation and artist talk with Elisheba Johnson to discuss her solo show “Non-Committal”. Johnson is one of the exhibiting artists in the conversation series “This Land Is Your Land.”
To see documentation of Johnson’s solo exhibition “Non-Committal”, go to https://www.interloperinterloper.com/this-land-is-your-land.
Elisheba Johnson is a curator, poet, public artist and consultant that lives in Seattle, WA. Johnson, who has a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts, was the owner of Faire Gallery Café, a multi-use art space that held art exhibitions, music shows, poetry readings and creative gatherings. For six years Johnson worked at the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture on capacity building initiatives and racial equity in public art. Johnson was a member of the Americans for the Arts Emerging Leaders Network advisory council and has won four Americans for the Arts Public Art Year in Review Awards for her work. She currently co-manages Wa Na Wari, a Black art center in Seattle’s Central Area that uses the arts to build community and resist displacement.