Virtual Visits is a digital series where Frye staff check in on members of our creative community in their home and work spaces during social distancing and beyond.
Enjoy the first of our new series Virtual Visits as Negarra A. Kudumu, Frye Art Museum Manager of Public Programs, checks in with Elisheba Johnson.
Elisheba Johnson is a curator, public artist and administrator. Johnson, who has a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts, was the owner of Faire Gallery Café, a multi-use art space that held art exhibitions, music shows, poetry readings and creative gatherings. For six years Johnson worked at the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture on capacity building initiatives and racial equity in public art. Johnson is currently a member of the Americans for the Arts Emerging Leaders Network advisory council and has won four Americans for the Arts Public Art Year in Review Awards for her work. She currently co-manages Wa Na Wari, a Black art center in the Central District that uses the arts to build community and resist displacement.