About

Johanna Winters is an artist and educator whose work engages puppetry, printmaking, video, and performance to confront expressions of embarrassment and pleasure in a femme body approaching middle age. She has been awarded residencies at the Corporation of Yaddo, Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, Lawrence Arts Center, ACRE, and the Vermont Studio Center, among others. Johanna has exhibited and performed her work nationally – recently at the H&R Block Artspace (Kansas City, MO), Drama Club (Chicago, IL), Coop Gallery (Nashville, TN), and Soo Visual Arts Center (Minneapolis, MN). 

Johanna is a recipient of the Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Artist Fellowship (Kansas City, MO), and recently served as the 2022-23 Grant Wood Fellow in Printmaking at the University of Iowa. 
 
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.