Martina Johnson-Allen (born 1947) is an American artist and educator.

Biography

Johnson-Allen was born in Philadelphia on August 4, 1947. She attended

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsyl ...

and the University of the Arts. She taught art in Philadelphia Public Schools and had retired from the public school system. In 2006 the Brandywine Workshop and Archives printed an edition of her lithograph ''Another Realm'', a copy of which is in the collection of the

Philadelphia Museum of Art The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) is an List of art museums#North America, art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. The main museum building was completed in 1928 on Fairmount, a hill located at ...

. Her work is also in the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African-American Art. Johnson-Allen's mixed media sculpture "The Seven Crones" was included in the African American Museum in Philadelphia's 2002 exhibit "4 Artists of Distinction" and is now in their permanent collection. Johnson-Allen's work was included in the 2015 exhibition '' We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s'' at the

Woodmere Art Museum Woodmere Art Museum, located in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has a collection of paintings, prints, sculpture and photographs focusing on artists from the Delaware Valley and includes works by Thomas Pollock Anshutz, ...

. In 2010, Sande Webster Gallery featured her works in a group show of women artists titled "Women's Work: A Group Show" that included artists Martina Johnson-Allen, Maya Freelon, Betsy Casanas, Nannette Acker Clark, Alice Oh, Heather Pieters, Doris Nogueira-Rogers, Marta Sanchez and Kathleen Spicer.

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External links

Conversation with Martina Johnson-Allen
at the Brandywine Workshop and Archives {{DEFAULTSORT:Johnson-Allen, Martina 1947 births Living people Artists from Philadelphia 20th-century American women artists 20th-century American artists 21st-century American women artists 21st-century American artists Pennsylvania State University alumni University of the Arts (Philadelphia) alumni