IMFA Associate for Critical Engagement Leon Johnson Announced as 2014 Kresge Artist Fellows in Film/Theatre
The University of Maine Intermedia Master of Fine Arts Associate for Critical Engagement, Leon Johnson, was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and left for the United States in 1979, three years after the murder of Steve Biko. Johnson conceives, researches, designs and produces intermedia communications and events. These events include performances and interactive spectacles in multiple mediums, including installations, performance, video and photography. Johnson is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for Painting and a Yaddo Fellowship, and he won both the Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Williams Fellowship for Distinguished Interdisciplinary Teaching at the University of Oregon. He lives in Detroit, where he co-evolved Salt & Cedar Letterpress with his partner Megan O’Connell, and sons Marlowe and Leander. Johnson is the 2014 Martha Daniel Newell Distinguished Scholar at Georgia College, and was recently named a Bemis Foundation Fellow.