Artist bio
After a ten-year career in the defense and high-tech industries, Johnna left the engineering world to become a full-time artist and woodworker. In 2019, Trained Termites Woodworking, LLC, was born. Or hatched. Whatever it is that termites do....
Johnna was born in eastern Massachusetts and attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she received her BS in Computer Science and her MSECE in Electrical and Computer Engineering. She is a member of the American Association of Woodturners, the Southern Maine Woodturners and the Computer Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
- January 2018 - December 2018 - Secretary, Southern Maine Woodturners
- January 2016 - January 2018 - Vice President, Southern Maine Woodturners
Johnna and her husband live in Sebago, Maine.
Highlights
- June 2018 - Demonstrator, Southern Maine Woodturners, South Portland, ME
- May 2018 - Demonstrator, Eastern Maine Woodturners, Bangor, ME
- July, August 2017 - Demonstrator, Seacoast Woodturners, Newington, NH
- January 2016 - Artist Guest of Honor, Arisia, Boston, MA
- October 2015 - Demonstrator, Southern Maine Woodturners, South Portland, ME
- November 2014 - Demonstrator, Seacoast Woodturners, Newington, NH
- March 2014 - Demonstrator, Southern Maine Woodturners, South Portland, ME
- May 2012 - Guest lecturer, Maine Woodworkers Association
- June 2011 - Demonstrator, Southern Maine Woodturners, South Portland, ME
- May 2011 - Commission to create the James B. Tiptree Award
- May 2010 - Demonstrator, Southern Maine Woodturners, South Portland, ME
- July 2009 - Gallery show, The Art Corner, Salem, MA
- 2008 - Artist Guest of Honor, Lunacon, Rye, NY
- 2006 - Nomination, Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists Chesley Award for Best Three-Dimensional Work of 2005 ("Remembering the Future")
- 2004 - Nomination, Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists Chesley Award for Best Three-Dimensional Work of 2003 ("The Colony Ship Oengus Oc"
- 2002 - Recipient, Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists Chesley Award for Best Three-Dimensional Work of 2001 ("Hall of the Mountain King")
- 2001 - Nomination, Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists Chesley Award for Best Three-Dimensional Work of 2000 ("From the Astrologer's Anteroom - Bookstand")
- 2001 - Commission, Hugo Award bases for Millenium Philcon, the 59th World Science Fiction Convention
- 2000 - Recipient, Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists Chesley Award for Best Three-Dimensional Work of 1999 ("From the Astrologer's Anteroom")
- 2000 - Commission, Hugo Award bases for Chicon, the 58th World Science Fiction Convention
Publications referencing Johnna's work
The Chesley Awards for Science Fiction and Fantasy Art: A Retrospective, by John Grant and Elizabeth Humphrey, Artist's and Photographer's Press, Ltd., 2003
September, 2008 issue of "Custom Wood Business" magazine, by Matthew Warnock.
io9.com, by Annalee Newitz.