Carolyn Johnson

OFFICE: Instruction North Building, Art Department

OFFICE HOURS:

PHONE NUMBER: (989) 328-1248

E-MAIL ADDRESS: cjohnson@montcalm.edu

FAX NUMBER: (989) 328-2950 Attention: Carolyn Johnson

MCC FACULTY MEMBER SINCE: She began as a part-time instructor in the fall of 1996.  She became a full-time faculty member in the spring of 1997.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Community Education courses in Grand Rapids and Greenville

EDUCATION:

REGULAR CLASS LOAD:

Art for Elementary Teachers
Drama as a Performing Art
Drawing I and II
Humanities I and II
Western Culture
Introduction to Art

OTHER COURSES:

Acting
Directing for Theater
Lost Wax Casting
Silversmithing

PERSONAL:

Carolyn Johnson has been a professional artist/craftsperson since 1975.  After working in two dimensional media, she created a business in three dimensional small sculpture and jewelry.  She has done exhibitions, art fairs, and is represented in a number of galleries from Kansas City to New York City and Minneapolis to Miami.  She enjoys traveling and visiting museums, galleries and art fairs.

One of Carolyn's great loves is the theater, both as a participant and as an audience member.  She has directed and performed in area theater productions.  She has been active in the Flat  River Community Players, Bottom's Dream Theatre, where she directed The Glass Menagerie and Rosencrantz and  Guildenstern Are Dead, and has served as drama coach for Greenville High School, directing The Miracle Worker in 1996.  For several years she has produced and directed Bubbylonian  Encounter, a play about the sense of touch performed for area elementary schools.

Carolyn collects antique typewriters, postcards and fountain pens.  She is a "bleeding-heart liberal and a Macintosh computer fanatic."  She lives on a lake with her daughter, Jordan, and two cats.

WHAT STUDENTS SAY:

"The drawing class is very laid back, Carolyn is always prepared and she always listens to our comments."

"She is very helpful, she's very open-minded to everyone's ideas."

"Great class, looking forward to more."

"I think she loves what she does and gets us to love art, too."