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Indira Freitas Johnson (born 1943) is an artist and nonviolence educator. Johnson was born and raised in Mumbai, India and received a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of Mumbai in 1964, and a four-year diploma in Applied Arts from Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art in 1964. In 1965, Johnson was awarded a grant to study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she received a Master of Fine Arts in 1967. Johnson was invited to teach graduate level classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Ceramic Sculpture in 1998 and at the Rhode Island School of Design in Public Art in 2001. Johnson is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the Governor’s Award for the Arts, Kohler Company Arts and Industry Grant, Arts ConText, Rhode Island School of Design Museum and the Pew Charitable Trust, Arts International Travelling Fellowship, Raven Foundation, and the Illinois Arts Council. Johnson’s work is represented in numerous major public and private collections including: Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Asian American Arts Centre in New York, Rhode Island School of Design Museum in Providence, Mobile Museum of Art in Mobile Alabama, State of Illinois Building in Chicago, Ankor Consultants in Brussels, High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Arkansas Arts Center and Decorative Arts Museum in Little Rock, Arkansas, University of Illinois Law School in Carbondale, Illinois, SHARE in Mumbai India, High Museum of Art in Atlanta GA, Air India Corporation in Mumbai, India, Kohler Company in Sheboygan Wisconsin, and Garden/Varelli in Mumbai India. == Public art projects == As an artist, Johnson’s identity has evolved as part sculptor, cultural worker, peace activist and educator.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://art-design.umich.edu/stamps/detail/indira_freitas_johnson )〕 Her numerous studio art work and community engaged projects explore an array of social issues including the cultural dimension of domestic violence, leprosy health education, labor, the environment, gender, peace, nonviolence and literacy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://art-design.umich.edu/stamps/detail/indira_freitas_johnson )〕 They follow the “call and response” tradition that is prevalent in many cultures. She puts out a call and the community responds so that the final art -work is a hybrid that depends on and is completed by community interaction. Her public art projects include: * ''Resonance of Emptiness'', 2013, investigates the concept of emptiness and related ideas of impermanence and interconnectedness.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.artoxygen.org/?p=1723 )〕 Johnson was one of 9 international artists and 21 Korean artists invited to participate in the Haein Art Biennale in South Korea * ''Ten Thousand Ripples'', 2011–2013, is a multi-platform public arts project, a collaboration with cultural and community organizations from the city of Chicago. As part of the project, one hundred emerging Buddha heads were installed throughout the city in sites chosen by host community organizations located in Chicago’s 50 wards. The goal of Ten Thousand Ripples was to provide the general community with an intense and meaningful public art experience outside of traditional art venues and in doing so act as a catalyst for community conversations and interactions about peace and nonviolence. Sites included parks, public plazas, alleys, libraries, building lobbies, and abandoned lots Changing Worlds was the lead arts organization in a consortium of over 30 social service, educational, religious and arts organizations. * ''Growing Peace'', 2011, consisted of Johnson creating a five-acre field sculpture. It revolves around themes of the power of human perspective and its relationship to the process of finding peace within civilization. Johnson uses the universal symbol of a foot, which she says grounds us to the earth and gives us stability〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://artspiral.blogspot.com/2011/07/growing-peace-indira-johnsons-fields.html )〕 * ''25th Bowl'', 2010, was an exhibition at the Illinois State Museum, Chicago Gallery, which explored themes of interconnectedness, and water sustainability issues. * ''Community Blessings'' are Rangolis, a South Asian folk art tradition where a woman welcomes the day by painting patterns on the threshold of her home to ensure the well-being of her family. Rangolis use traditional materials like rice flour, turmeric, earth, and flower petals and nontraditional materials like found objects and recycled materials. The first ‘Community Blessings” was in downtown Evanston right after the tragedy of 9/11 where the community came together to express their sorrow and their hope. Johnson has facilitated Community Blessings in diverse communities ranging from Providence, RI 2001, The Chicago Field Museum, 2004, Illinois Wesleyan University, 2004, Contemporary Art Center, Peoria, IL, 2006, SHARE, Mumbai, India, 2006 Parkland College, Champaign, IL, 2009. * ''Hand in Hand'', 2009, was displayed at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul Minnesota. It questions the nature of “free” labor and investigates the basic transference of energy which is present in every form of exchange whether, physical, emotional, economic or psychic. * ''Conversations: Here and Now'', 2008, was commissioned by the City of Evanston, IL. Public meetings were held throughout the city to involve the community in planning the sculpture. Today, Conversations: Here and Now, has become a city landmark, a space for conversation. * ''Where Sky Meets Water'', 2007, sponsored by Chicago Cultural Center’s Public Art Program engaged passersby, random people who helped float over 800 leaves in the Chicago River, in a ritual offering for peace. * ''Enough; Indira Freitas Johnson and Voices from around the World'', 2003, was sponsored by the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, and involved women from the Golibar slum of Mumbai and a wide range of people from the Chicago area and around the world in the question of how much is enough and what do we all really want. * ''FREENOTFREE'', 2001, sponsored by the RISD Museum and the Pew Charitable Trust where Johnson worked intensely with a literacy group from the Rhode Island Public Library as well as collected stories from the wider Providence Community. * ''Voices of Shakti; Pain, Struggle, Courage'', a collaboration with women from Apna Ghar, a Chicago based South Asian domestic violence shelter, which used words, objects and floor drawings to demonstrate the South Asian cultural dimension of domestic violence. This show traveled from Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, 1994, to Beacon Street Gallery, 1995, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL 1996, College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN 1998. * ''Our Own Vision'', 1990, was Indira Johnson’s first public art project, a collaboration with a Local Bombay NGO and the Indian Western Railway around leprosy health education. Working with a group of tribal children who had been affected by leprosy, Indira and partners painted a commuter train that ran between Mumbai and the far suburbs and spread the message of leprosy’s curability to thousands of people. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Indira Freitas Johnson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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