Johanna Winters is an interdisciplinary artist whose work engages puppetry, video, and performance to confront expressions of female pleasure and disappointment. Johanna holds an MFA from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. She has been awarded residencies at the Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University, the Women’s Studio Workshop, Yaddo, Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, Lawrence Arts Center, ACRE, Vermont Studio Center, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Guttenberg Arts, and Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Poland.
Johanna has exhibited and performed her work nationally, and is a recent recipient of the Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Artist Fellowship (Kansas City, MO), and the Grant Wood Fellowship at the University of Iowa. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Creative Core at the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design at Indiana University-Bloomington.
Prior to her artistic pursuits, Johanna trained as a professional cross country skier and competed on an Olympic-development ski team based in the upper Midwest.
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