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THE JOHNSON COLLECTION - A Private Collection for Public Good
thejohnsoncollection.org/the-collection/
Sharing the art it stewards with communities across the country is The Johnson Collection’s essential purpose and propels our daily work. Much more than a physical place, TJC seeks to be a presence in American art, prioritizing access over location. Since 2013, the collection’s touring exhibitions have been loaned twenty-five times, placed without fee in partner museums with a combined annual attendance of over 1.2 million visitors. In its showcase of over 1,000 objects, TJC’s website functions as a digital museum, available anywhere and anytime.
What began as an interest in paintings by Carolina artists in 2002 has grown to encompass over 1,400 objects with provenances that span the centuries and chronicle the cultural evolution of the American South.
Today, The Johnson Collection counts iconic masterworks among its holdings, as well as representative pieces by an astonishing depth and breadth of artists, native and visiting, whose lives and legacies form the foundation of Southern art history. From William D. Washington’s The Burial of Latané to Malvin Gray Johnson’s Roll Jordan Roll, the collection embraces the region’s rich history and confronts its complexities, past and present.
.The contributions of women artists, ranging from Helen Turner—only the fourth woman elected to full membership in the National Academy of Design in 1921—to Alma Thomas—the first African American woman to have a solo exhibition at a major national museum in 1972—are accorded overdue attention, most notably in TJC's most recent publication and companion exhibition, Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection. Landmark works by American artists of African descent such as Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Aaron Douglas, William H. Johnson, Leo Twiggs, and Hale Woodruff pay homage to their makers' barrier-defying accomplishments. Modern paintings, prints, collages, and sculpture created by internationally renowned artists associated with the experimental arts enclave of Black Mountain College, including Josef Albers, Ruth Asawa, Ilya Bolotowsky, Elaine de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, and Robert Rauschenberg highlight the North Carolina school's geographic proximity to the collection's home.
Hailed by The Magazine Antiques as having staged a "quiet art historical revolution" and expanding "the meaning of regional," The Johnson Collection heralds the pivotal role that art of the South plays in the national narrative. To that end, the collection's ambitious publication and exhibition strategies extend far beyond a single city's limit or a territorial divide.
Since 2012, TJC has produced four significant scholarly books—thoroughly researched and beautifully illustrated investigations of Southern art time periods, artists, and themes: Romantic Spirits: Nineteenth Century Paintings of the South (2012); From New York to Nebo: The Artistic Journey of Eugene Thomason (2014); Scenic Impressions: Southern Interpretations from the Johnson Collection (2015); and Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection (2018). These volumes are accompanied by traveling exhibitions that have been loaned without fee to partner museums with a combined annual attendance of over 1.7 million visitors.
Smaller curated presentations rotate at the collection's hometown exhibition space, TJC Gallery. Individual objects are regularly made available for critical exhibitions such as La Biennale di Venezia, Afro-Atlantic Histories, Outliers and American Vanguard Art, Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College, 1933-1957, Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful, Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition, and Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era and featured in important publications and catalogues, including The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Art & Architecture, and The Civil War and American Art.
In 2016, the state of South Carolina honored The Johnson Collection with the Governor’s Award for the Arts, its highest arts distinction. The commendation paid tribute to the Johnson family's enduring contributions: "Equally dedicated to arts advancement and arts accessibility, the Johnsons generously share their vision, energy, passion and resources to benefit the arts in South Carolina."
"Who can say what ignites a passion? Was it those three red roses frozen in blue? An awakened connection to one's geographical roots? Perhaps the familiarity of the road to Nebo? The nucleus of what was to become our collection was formed by such seemingly unrelated catalysts. Looking back, it was always the sense of place that drew George and me to beautiful pictures—pictures that capture not only the glorious landscape of the South, but that also enliven its unique culture and dynamic history." ~Susu Johnson, Chief Executive Officer
The Beacon Hill Bike Route project was prioritized based on public feedback and City Council actions over the past several years. The purpose of this project is to create a safe and comfortable bike route that connects people to businesses and community destinations in Beacon Hill. This project is partially funded by the 9-year Levy to Move Seattle, approved by voters in 2015.
A person bikes across an intersection along the route.
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McKinsey Global Infrastructure Initiative Summit
Tokyo, Japan
Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
15:10–15:30
PRIORITIZING THE PATHWAY TO SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE
The combined impacts of COVID-19 and net-zero commitments have resulted in an unprecedented disruption of the $11.6 trillion global infrastructure industry. Meeting net-zero targets will require the industry to transform project development and delivery to deliver a global portfolio of projects at an unprecedented scale and pace. What are the pivotal actions we need to take now to enable sustainable infrastructure for the decades to come?
Facilitators:
Tip Huizenga, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company; Co-chair, GII
Detlev Mohr, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company; Co-chair, GII
In this interactive session, Detlev and Tip will briefly frame the topic with a few slides to set the context. This will be followed by them asking the question to the audience, “What are the pivotal actions we need to take now to enable sustainable infrastructure for the decades to come?” The audience will be requested to discuss the question for ~7 minutes in their pods, submitting their ideas through the GII app to form a Word Cloud on the screen.
Photograph by McKinsey Global Infrastructure/Stuart Isett
Steve Donajkowski is a Mechanical Technician at the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.
His responsibilities include fabrication and testing of student projects; prioritizing jobs to meet deadlines; helping with Geotech Lab, setting up lab experiments and maintain equipment and helping during lab sessions.
Steve has an Associate’s Degree in Machine Tool Technology from Ferris State University. He has over 33 years of experience in the machining field, including 9 years as an Instrument Maker for the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan. He started as a Mechanical Technician in Civil and Environmental Engineering in April 2017.
BIOGRAPHY
I have grown so much in knowledge since working at the University of Michigan, not just in technical expertise, but also with the unique opportunities to meet people from different cultures. I enjoy the diversity and working with my colleagues and students.
Start date at U-M: 08/11/2008
Start date in CEE: 04/4/2017
Hometown: Alpena, Michigan
Advice for new students: Please ask for help. The staff are here not only to make your time at the University of Michigan an enjoyable experience, but also to advance your knowledge and help when and where we can.
Favorite quote: “The only stupid question is the one you don’t ask”
Favorite free time activities or hobbies: I enjoy the outdoors, whether cutting wood, fishing, hunting or just taking a walk in the woods; nature has so much to show us. I also love dogs and college sports.
October 23 2023
Photo by Marcin Szczepanski/Lead Multimedia Storyteller, Michigan Engineering
The Beacon Hill Bike Route project was prioritized based on public feedback and City Council actions over the past several years. The purpose of this project is to create a safe and comfortable bike route that connects people to businesses and community destinations in Beacon Hill. This project is partially funded by the 9-year Levy to Move Seattle, approved by voters in 2015.
A person bikes on Beacon Hill.
The Community Archiving Workshop prioritized collections centering Native Hawaiian culture and history, as well as prioritizing workshop volunteers with Native Hawaiian or other Indigenous ancestry. We partnered with the Lāna'i Culture & Heritage Center and the Ka Ipu Makani Cultural Heritage Center, with support from the ʻUluʻulu: The Henry Kuʻualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive.
THE JOHNSON COLLECTION - A Private Collection for Public Good
thejohnsoncollection.org/the-collection/
Sharing the art it stewards with communities across the country is The Johnson Collection’s essential purpose and propels our daily work. Much more than a physical place, TJC seeks to be a presence in American art, prioritizing access over location. Since 2013, the collection’s touring exhibitions have been loaned twenty-five times, placed without fee in partner museums with a combined annual attendance of over 1.2 million visitors. In its showcase of over 1,000 objects, TJC’s website functions as a digital museum, available anywhere and anytime.
What began as an interest in paintings by Carolina artists in 2002 has grown to encompass over 1,400 objects with provenances that span the centuries and chronicle the cultural evolution of the American South.
Today, The Johnson Collection counts iconic masterworks among its holdings, as well as representative pieces by an astonishing depth and breadth of artists, native and visiting, whose lives and legacies form the foundation of Southern art history. From William D. Washington’s The Burial of Latané to Malvin Gray Johnson’s Roll Jordan Roll, the collection embraces the region’s rich history and confronts its complexities, past and present.
.The contributions of women artists, ranging from Helen Turner—only the fourth woman elected to full membership in the National Academy of Design in 1921—to Alma Thomas—the first African American woman to have a solo exhibition at a major national museum in 1972—are accorded overdue attention, most notably in TJC's most recent publication and companion exhibition, Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection. Landmark works by American artists of African descent such as Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Aaron Douglas, William H. Johnson, Leo Twiggs, and Hale Woodruff pay homage to their makers' barrier-defying accomplishments. Modern paintings, prints, collages, and sculpture created by internationally renowned artists associated with the experimental arts enclave of Black Mountain College, including Josef Albers, Ruth Asawa, Ilya Bolotowsky, Elaine de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, and Robert Rauschenberg highlight the North Carolina school's geographic proximity to the collection's home.
Hailed by The Magazine Antiques as having staged a "quiet art historical revolution" and expanding "the meaning of regional," The Johnson Collection heralds the pivotal role that art of the South plays in the national narrative. To that end, the collection's ambitious publication and exhibition strategies extend far beyond a single city's limit or a territorial divide.
Since 2012, TJC has produced four significant scholarly books—thoroughly researched and beautifully illustrated investigations of Southern art time periods, artists, and themes: Romantic Spirits: Nineteenth Century Paintings of the South (2012); From New York to Nebo: The Artistic Journey of Eugene Thomason (2014); Scenic Impressions: Southern Interpretations from the Johnson Collection (2015); and Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection (2018). These volumes are accompanied by traveling exhibitions that have been loaned without fee to partner museums with a combined annual attendance of over 1.7 million visitors.
Smaller curated presentations rotate at the collection's hometown exhibition space, TJC Gallery. Individual objects are regularly made available for critical exhibitions such as La Biennale di Venezia, Afro-Atlantic Histories, Outliers and American Vanguard Art, Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College, 1933-1957, Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful, Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition, and Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era and featured in important publications and catalogues, including The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Art & Architecture, and The Civil War and American Art.
In 2016, the state of South Carolina honored The Johnson Collection with the Governor’s Award for the Arts, its highest arts distinction. The commendation paid tribute to the Johnson family's enduring contributions: "Equally dedicated to arts advancement and arts accessibility, the Johnsons generously share their vision, energy, passion and resources to benefit the arts in South Carolina."
"Who can say what ignites a passion? Was it those three red roses frozen in blue? An awakened connection to one's geographical roots? Perhaps the familiarity of the road to Nebo? The nucleus of what was to become our collection was formed by such seemingly unrelated catalysts. Looking back, it was always the sense of place that drew George and me to beautiful pictures—pictures that capture not only the glorious landscape of the South, but that also enliven its unique culture and dynamic history." ~Susu Johnson, Chief Executive Officer
The Community Archiving Workshop prioritized collections centering Native Hawaiian culture and history, as well as prioritizing workshop volunteers with Native Hawaiian or other Indigenous ancestry. We partnered with the Lāna'i Culture & Heritage Center and the Ka Ipu Makani Cultural Heritage Center, with support from the ʻUluʻulu: The Henry Kuʻualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive.
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McKinsey Global Infrastructure Initiative Summit
Tokyo, Japan
Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
15:10–15:30
PRIORITIZING THE PATHWAY TO SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE
The combined impacts of COVID-19 and net-zero commitments have resulted in an unprecedented disruption of the $11.6 trillion global infrastructure industry. Meeting net-zero targets will require the industry to transform project development and delivery to deliver a global portfolio of projects at an unprecedented scale and pace. What are the pivotal actions we need to take now to enable sustainable infrastructure for the decades to come?
Facilitators:
Tip Huizenga, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company; Co-chair, GII
Detlev Mohr, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company; Co-chair, GII
In this interactive session, Detlev and Tip will briefly frame the topic with a few slides to set the context. This will be followed by them asking the question to the audience, “What are the pivotal actions we need to take now to enable sustainable infrastructure for the decades to come?” The audience will be requested to discuss the question for ~7 minutes in their pods, submitting their ideas through the GII app to form a Word Cloud on the screen.
Photograph by McKinsey Global Infrastructure/Stuart Isett
The Community Archiving Workshop prioritized collections centering Native Hawaiian culture and history, as well as prioritizing workshop volunteers with Native Hawaiian or other Indigenous ancestry. We partnered with the Lāna'i Culture & Heritage Center and the Ka Ipu Makani Cultural Heritage Center, with support from the ʻUluʻulu: The Henry Kuʻualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive.
Every Mind Matters: The Many Dimensions of Mental Illness
The Hill brings together lawmakers, mental health experts, and advocates to discuss these questions and more and explore why prioritizing mental health is intrinsically linked to good health overall.
The United States is facing an unprecedented mental health crisis as two in five American adults reported experiencing symptoms of anxiety and depression in 2021. Fortunately, the country has witnessed a positive sea change in recognizing the importance of mental health and self-care in recent years, but significant work still remains to create a system that recognizes the nuances and needs of those with mental illness.
Schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disease, and post-traumatic stress disorder are just some of the many conditions affecting the 1 in 20 Americans experiencing serious mental illness today. The generalization of these disorders extends beyond everyday vernacular as one-size-fits-all policies, drugs and treatments continue to fail patients. Even when services are available, barriers like cost, cultural bias, and inconvenience often prevent people from accessing the care they need.
How can we break down the stigma associated with mental illness? How can we build a comprehensive care system to support all individuals affected by it?
LOCATION
In person at National Press Club Holeman Lounge, 529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor, Washington, DC 20045 & streaming nationally
DATE & TIME
Wednesday, October 18
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM ET
Speakers:
Daniel Gillison, CEO, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
Dr. Joshua A. Gordon, Director, National Institute of Mental Health
Susan Gurley, Executive Director, Anxiety & Depression Association of America
Gabe Howard, “Inside Mental Health” Podcast Host, Author, Speaker
Dafna Michaelson Jenet, Colorado State Senator (CO-21)
Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI), Co-Chair, Task Force on Mental Health & Substance Use Disorder
Rep. David Trone
The Community Archiving Workshop prioritized collections centering Native Hawaiian culture and history, as well as prioritizing workshop volunteers with Native Hawaiian or other Indigenous ancestry. We partnered with the Lāna'i Culture & Heritage Center and the Ka Ipu Makani Cultural Heritage Center, with support from the ʻUluʻulu: The Henry Kuʻualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive.
1. When shooting the picture, I had prioritized the angle of shooting and the interesting parts of FACIT. For the angle, I was thinking of going level with the curve so it's more apparent. As well, it creates an interesting perspective to see the brick come in from out of focus, then as it continues to lose focus.
2. The story I was capturing was a scene of the motion you can see in everyday objects.
3. I did not shoot in any particular setting for this shot.
The Community Archiving Workshop prioritized collections centering Native Hawaiian culture and history, as well as prioritizing workshop volunteers with Native Hawaiian or other Indigenous ancestry. We partnered with the Lāna'i Culture & Heritage Center and the Ka Ipu Makani Cultural Heritage Center, with support from the ʻUluʻulu: The Henry Kuʻualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive.
The Community Archiving Workshop prioritized collections centering Native Hawaiian culture and history, as well as prioritizing workshop volunteers with Native Hawaiian or other Indigenous ancestry. We partnered with the Lāna'i Culture & Heritage Center and the Ka Ipu Makani Cultural Heritage Center, with support from the ʻUluʻulu: The Henry Kuʻualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive.
The Community Archiving Workshop prioritized collections centering Native Hawaiian culture and history, as well as prioritizing workshop volunteers with Native Hawaiian or other Indigenous ancestry. We partnered with the Lāna'i Culture & Heritage Center and the Ka Ipu Makani Cultural Heritage Center, with support from the ʻUluʻulu: The Henry Kuʻualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive.
The Community Archiving Workshop prioritized collections centering Native Hawaiian culture and history, as well as prioritizing workshop volunteers with Native Hawaiian or other Indigenous ancestry. We partnered with the Lāna'i Culture & Heritage Center and the Ka Ipu Makani Cultural Heritage Center, with support from the ʻUluʻulu: The Henry Kuʻualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive.
Prioritize prioritization.
Max, Harry, 2024. Managing Priorities: How to Create Better Plans and Make Smarter Decisions
New York: Rosenfeld
008
McKinsey Global Infrastructure Initiative Summit
Tokyo, Japan
Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
15:10–15:30
PRIORITIZING THE PATHWAY TO SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE
The combined impacts of COVID-19 and net-zero commitments have resulted in an unprecedented disruption of the $11.6 trillion global infrastructure industry. Meeting net-zero targets will require the industry to transform project development and delivery to deliver a global portfolio of projects at an unprecedented scale and pace. What are the pivotal actions we need to take now to enable sustainable infrastructure for the decades to come?
Facilitators:
Tip Huizenga, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company; Co-chair, GII
Detlev Mohr, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company; Co-chair, GII
In this interactive session, Detlev and Tip will briefly frame the topic with a few slides to set the context. This will be followed by them asking the question to the audience, “What are the pivotal actions we need to take now to enable sustainable infrastructure for the decades to come?” The audience will be requested to discuss the question for ~7 minutes in their pods, submitting their ideas through the GII app to form a Word Cloud on the screen.
Photograph by McKinsey Global Infrastructure/Stuart Isett
If you need more evidence on why leaders should prioritize climate, look no further than this year’s hurricane season— currently tied for the most active hurricane season in the Atlantic with 28 named storms. We experienced a similar season in 2005, with 27 named storms and one unnamed storm.
This year, storms have also formed much earlier in the season than previous years. Zeta developed on October 24th, beating out 2005’s Zeta which formed on December 30, 2005. It’s been a similar story for the 23 other named storms this season.
2020 also saw 3 storms in a single day, which tied a record. 2020 also broke the record for most named storms in the month of September. And 2020 also saw 11 US landfalls— breaking the previous record of 9 set back in 1916.
Record-breaking weather has been a trend over the last few years, and scientists believe that human-caused climate change is a contributing factor. The science of climate change is no longer a debate. Climate change is HERE, and we need our leaders to believe the experts. Vote for science on November 3.| Illustration by @jentannerdesign
By: Maiya, www.instagram.com/maiyamay_/
ATMIS Police Commissioner, Commissioner of Police (CP) Hillary Sao Kanu speaks at a media briefing in Mogadishu, Somalia, on 20 April 2023.
ATMIS Photo / Steven Candia
The Community Archiving Workshop prioritized collections centering Native Hawaiian culture and history, as well as prioritizing workshop volunteers with Native Hawaiian or other Indigenous ancestry. We partnered with the Lāna'i Culture & Heritage Center and the Ka Ipu Makani Cultural Heritage Center, with support from the ʻUluʻulu: The Henry Kuʻualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive.
The Community Archiving Workshop prioritized collections centering Native Hawaiian culture and history, as well as prioritizing workshop volunteers with Native Hawaiian or other Indigenous ancestry. We partnered with the Lāna'i Culture & Heritage Center and the Ka Ipu Makani Cultural Heritage Center, with support from the ʻUluʻulu: The Henry Kuʻualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive.
Climate Bonds CONNECT 2024 - Mumbai
India’s G20 Presidency positioned sustainable finance as a key pillar of action and prioritized the mobilizing of capital flows at scale and speed for climate and sustainability COP28 echoed this agenda. As India progresses towards its 2070 net-zero targets, its success hinges on how well it can mobilize capital from international and domestic sources.
Climate Bonds Initiative and MUFG, with their longstanding commitment to climate investments, are coming together to engage stakeholders across Asia to align their sustainability and decarbonisation goals with the region’s broader energy transition and developmental agendas.
We are pleased to invite you to an exclusive dialogue in Mumbai on the 23rd February. Hosted as part of the MUFG N0W (Net Zero World) and Climate Bonds Connect series of thought leadership events, the session will gather business leaders, investors, policymakers and industry experts. The dialogue will focus on the latest industry trends, regulatory shifts and market expectations to unleash new sustainable investment opportunities.
Venue: Trident BKC, Golconda Ballroom, Mumbai
Date: Friday, 23 February 2024
Time: 16:30- 19:50 IST / 11:30- 14:00 GMT
More information at events.climatebonds.net/
The Community Archiving Workshop prioritized collections centering Native Hawaiian culture and history, as well as prioritizing workshop volunteers with Native Hawaiian or other Indigenous ancestry. We partnered with the Lāna'i Culture & Heritage Center and the Ka Ipu Makani Cultural Heritage Center, with support from the ʻUluʻulu: The Henry Kuʻualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive.
Every Mind Matters: The Many Dimensions of Mental Illness
The Hill brings together lawmakers, mental health experts, and advocates to discuss these questions and more and explore why prioritizing mental health is intrinsically linked to good health overall.
The United States is facing an unprecedented mental health crisis as two in five American adults reported experiencing symptoms of anxiety and depression in 2021. Fortunately, the country has witnessed a positive sea change in recognizing the importance of mental health and self-care in recent years, but significant work still remains to create a system that recognizes the nuances and needs of those with mental illness.
Schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disease, and post-traumatic stress disorder are just some of the many conditions affecting the 1 in 20 Americans experiencing serious mental illness today. The generalization of these disorders extends beyond everyday vernacular as one-size-fits-all policies, drugs and treatments continue to fail patients. Even when services are available, barriers like cost, cultural bias, and inconvenience often prevent people from accessing the care they need.
How can we break down the stigma associated with mental illness? How can we build a comprehensive care system to support all individuals affected by it?
LOCATION
In person at National Press Club Holeman Lounge, 529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor, Washington, DC 20045 & streaming nationally
DATE & TIME
Wednesday, October 18
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM ET
Speakers:
Daniel Gillison, CEO, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
Dr. Joshua A. Gordon, Director, National Institute of Mental Health
Susan Gurley, Executive Director, Anxiety & Depression Association of America
Gabe Howard, “Inside Mental Health” Podcast Host, Author, Speaker
Dafna Michaelson Jenet, Colorado State Senator (CO-21)
Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI), Co-Chair, Task Force on Mental Health & Substance Use Disorder
Rep. David Trone
Robert Gwathmey (1903 - 1988)
Man with Melon - circa 1947
THE JOHNSON COLLECTION - A Private Collection for Public Good
thejohnsoncollection.org/the-collection/
Sharing the art it stewards with communities across the country is The Johnson Collection’s essential purpose and propels our daily work. Much more than a physical place, TJC seeks to be a presence in American art, prioritizing access over location. Since 2013, the collection’s touring exhibitions have been loaned twenty-five times, placed without fee in partner museums with a combined annual attendance of over 1.2 million visitors. In its showcase of over 1,000 objects, TJC’s website functions as a digital museum, available anywhere and anytime.
What began as an interest in paintings by Carolina artists in 2002 has grown to encompass over 1,400 objects with provenances that span the centuries and chronicle the cultural evolution of the American South.
Today, The Johnson Collection counts iconic masterworks among its holdings, as well as representative pieces by an astonishing depth and breadth of artists, native and visiting, whose lives and legacies form the foundation of Southern art history. From William D. Washington’s The Burial of Latané to Malvin Gray Johnson’s Roll Jordan Roll, the collection embraces the region’s rich history and confronts its complexities, past and present.
.The contributions of women artists, ranging from Helen Turner—only the fourth woman elected to full membership in the National Academy of Design in 1921—to Alma Thomas—the first African American woman to have a solo exhibition at a major national museum in 1972—are accorded overdue attention, most notably in TJC's most recent publication and companion exhibition, Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection. Landmark works by American artists of African descent such as Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Aaron Douglas, William H. Johnson, Leo Twiggs, and Hale Woodruff pay homage to their makers' barrier-defying accomplishments. Modern paintings, prints, collages, and sculpture created by internationally renowned artists associated with the experimental arts enclave of Black Mountain College, including Josef Albers, Ruth Asawa, Ilya Bolotowsky, Elaine de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, and Robert Rauschenberg highlight the North Carolina school's geographic proximity to the collection's home.
Hailed by The Magazine Antiques as having staged a "quiet art historical revolution" and expanding "the meaning of regional," The Johnson Collection heralds the pivotal role that art of the South plays in the national narrative. To that end, the collection's ambitious publication and exhibition strategies extend far beyond a single city's limit or a territorial divide.
Since 2012, TJC has produced four significant scholarly books—thoroughly researched and beautifully illustrated investigations of Southern art time periods, artists, and themes: Romantic Spirits: Nineteenth Century Paintings of the South (2012); From New York to Nebo: The Artistic Journey of Eugene Thomason (2014); Scenic Impressions: Southern Interpretations from the Johnson Collection (2015); and Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection (2018). These volumes are accompanied by traveling exhibitions that have been loaned without fee to partner museums with a combined annual attendance of over 1.7 million visitors.
Smaller curated presentations rotate at the collection's hometown exhibition space, TJC Gallery. Individual objects are regularly made available for critical exhibitions such as La Biennale di Venezia, Afro-Atlantic Histories, Outliers and American Vanguard Art, Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College, 1933-1957, Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful, Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition, and Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era and featured in important publications and catalogues, including The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Art & Architecture, and The Civil War and American Art.
In 2016, the state of South Carolina honored The Johnson Collection with the Governor’s Award for the Arts, its highest arts distinction. The commendation paid tribute to the Johnson family's enduring contributions: "Equally dedicated to arts advancement and arts accessibility, the Johnsons generously share their vision, energy, passion and resources to benefit the arts in South Carolina."
"Who can say what ignites a passion? Was it those three red roses frozen in blue? An awakened connection to one's geographical roots? Perhaps the familiarity of the road to Nebo? The nucleus of what was to become our collection was formed by such seemingly unrelated catalysts. Looking back, it was always the sense of place that drew George and me to beautiful pictures—pictures that capture not only the glorious landscape of the South, but that also enliven its unique culture and dynamic history." ~Susu Johnson, Chief Executive Officer
Local community organizations reconfigured five traffic lanes of East Washington St. into a more equitable distribution of space.
The Community Archiving Workshop prioritized collections centering Native Hawaiian culture and history, as well as prioritizing workshop volunteers with Native Hawaiian or other Indigenous ancestry. We partnered with the Lāna'i Culture & Heritage Center and the Ka Ipu Makani Cultural Heritage Center, with support from the ʻUluʻulu: The Henry Kuʻualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive.