LONI JOHNSON

Loni Johnson has been commissioned to create a new version of the site-specific and immersive altarpiece and installation  Requiem of a Black Girl, that debuted at Boil, Toil + Trouble in Miami last year in MIami. Johnson will activate the work with a performance on Saturday, February 18 and will lead an altar-making workshop on Sunday, February 19 that is free and open to the public/ The space employs her signature pink, along with multiple gold and hand-crafted mirrored altar pieces,and furniture elemnets that transform a small nook into a space for reflection, healing, prayer and connection to spirit.

Loni Johnson is a multi-disciplinary visual artist born and raised in Miami, FL. As an artist, educator, mother and activist, Ms. Johnson understands that as artists, there is a cyclical obligation to give back and nurture our communities with her creative gift and it must be utilized to better our world. Through movement and ritual, the artist creates healing spaces for Black women and explores how ancestral and historical memory informs how, when and where we enter and claim spaces. Ms. Johnson graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from SUNY at Purchase College School of Art and Design.