Stephen T Johnson

My name is Stephen T. Johnson and thanks to my drawing students, I have inherited the acronym STJ and I like it.
So I now use my acronym to define the 3 pillars of my creative framework - Subject, Transformation and Joy! The transformation of the subject into a physical reality (drawings, paintings, collages, sculpture, etc.), the joy I receive in the process of making, and the joy it brings to the viewer through my award-winning children’s books, museum and gallery exhibitions and work in public spaces.

1996 – 1999, Cooper Union, Figure Drawing, New York, NY

1993 – 1994, New School, Art Criticism with Jerry Saltz, New York, NY

1990 - 1991, New York Academy of Art, Portrait Painting, New York, NY

1988 - 1989, Art Students League, Figure Drawing, New York, NY

1984 - 1985, Université de Bordeaux & L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, France

1982 - 1984, 1985 - 1987, University of Kansas, BFA in Design and Illustration and a BFA in Painting, Lawrence, KS

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