Martina Johnson-Allen

Martina Johnson-Allen (born 1947) is an American artist and educator.

Martina Johnson-Allen
Born (1947-08-04) August 4, 1947
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
NationalityAmerican
Known forPainter, sculptor, and printmaker, educator

Biography

Johnson-Allen was born in Philadelphia on August 4, 1947.[1] She attended Pennsylvania State University[2] and the University of the Arts. She taught art in Philadelphia Public Schools and had retired from the public school system.[1][3] In 2006 the Brandywine Workshop and Archives printed an edition of her lithograph Another Realm, a copy of which is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.[4][5] Her work is also in the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African-American Art.[3]

Johnson-Allen's mixed media sculpture "The Seven Crones" was included in the African American Museum in Philadelphia's 2002 exhibit "4 Artists of Distinction"[6] and is now in their permanent collection.[7]

Johnson-Allen's work was included in the 2015 exhibition We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s at the Woodmere Art Museum.[8] In 2010, Sande Webster Gallery featured her works in a group show of women artists titled "Women's Work: A Group Show" that included artists Martina Johnson-Allen, Maya Freelon, Betsy Casanas, Nannette Acker Clark, Alice Oh, Heather Pieters, Doris Nogueira-Rogers, Marta Sanchez and Kathleen Spicer.[9]

References
  1. "Four Elements - PMA LibGuides at Philadelphia Museum of Art". Philadelphia Museum of Art. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
  2. "Martina Johnson-Allen". Black Student Alumni at Penn State Oral History Project. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
  3. "Martina Johnson-Allen". Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
  4. "Another Realm". Philadelphia Museum of Art. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
  5. "Martina Johnson-Allen". Brandywine.Art. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
  6. Rice, Robin. ""4 Artists of Distinction"". My City Paper. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
  7. "Martina Johnson-Allen". U.S. Department of State. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
  8. "We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s". Woodmere Art Museum. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
  9. Booker, Bobbi (18 April 2010). "'Women's Work' celebrates local artists". Philadelphia Tribune. p. 6-B. ProQuest 2672591620.
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