Johanna Winters is an artist and educator whose practice engages puppetry, video, and performance to confront expressions of embarrassment and pleasure in a femme body approaching middle age. Her current work considers
the condition of a puppet-protagonist in search of romance.
Johanna holds an MFA from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. She has been awarded residencies at the Corporation of Yaddo, Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, Lawrence Arts Center, ACRE, and the Vermont Studio Center, among others. Johanna has exhibited and performed her work nationally – recently at the H&R Block Artspace (Kansas City, MO), Drama Club (Chicago, IL), Coop Gallery (Nashville, TN), and Soo Visual Arts Center (Minneapolis, MN). Johanna recently served as the 2022-23 Grant Wood Fellow in Printmaking at the University of Iowa, and currently teaches at the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design at Indiana University.
Prior to her artistic pursuits, Johanna trained as a professional cross country skier and competed on an Olympic-development ski team based in the upper Midwest.
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email: johanna.winters at gmail dot com