Charles Johnson
Arts/Industry: Pottery, 1994
Sculptor Charles Johnson’s main focus is narrative stacked forms made of unglazed clay. Much of his work explores issues of environmental sustainability and the impact of human activities on endangered species.
Johnson earned his MFA in ceramics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and his BA in ceramics with an art history minor and K-12 teaching certification from the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. He has been a professor of ceramics at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania since 1996.
Prior to teaching at Edinboro University, he taught ceramics at Rockford College in Rockford (Illinois) for eight years. Charles was an artist-in-residence at the John Michael Kohler Art Center’s Arts/Industry at Kohler Co. (WI) in 1994; received a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship in 1999; and has won over twenty-five juror’s awards for his sculptures.
