Monday, June 22, 2020

Re-print: “From Minneapolis to Palestine, we must end systemic racism”


Mondoweiss – News & Opinion About Palestine, Israel & the United States, 22 June 2020. Online. https://mondoweiss.net/2020/06/from-minneapolis-to-palestine-we-must-end-systemic-racism/

Saturday, June 20, 2020

Coloring contest!

Before

After
2020 Shar coloring contest, adult category (Colored pencil, pencil, tracing paper, and tape on 8.5x11" paper, June 18-19, 2020)

Thursday, June 18, 2020

Awards


*European Union’s Erasmus+ exchange program grant, Spring 2021 (Central Michigan University and Friedrich-Schiller-Universität)
*Semester Abroad Tuition Waiver, Spring 2021 (Central Michigan University, History Department for Friedrich-Schiller-Universität)
*Graduate Assistantship, Fall 2020 (Central Michigan University)
*Silver Medal, Adult Artistic, Skate Midland, 9 Nov 2019 (U.S. Figure Skating)
*Gold Medal, Adult 3 CM, Skate Midland, 9 Nov 2019 (U.S. Figure Skating)
*Gold Medal, Adult 3 FS, Skate Midland, 9 Nov 2019 (U.S. Figure Skating)
*Gold Medal, Adult 1 CM, Skate Midland, 3 Nov 2018 (U.S. Figure Skating)
*Grow with Google Developer Scholarship, 2018 (Google/Udacity)
*Grow with Google Challenge Scholarship, 2018 (Google/Udacity)
*Scott Kennedy Memorial Scholarship, 2017 (Interfaith Peace-Builders)
*Helen M. Casey Center for Nonviolence, 2017 (for IFPB delegation)
*Coca-Cola Scholarship, 2015-16 (Delta College)
*Zonta Club of Midland Scholarship, 2014-15 (Midland Area Community Foundation for Delta College)
*Arthur J. and Bette L. Fisher Scholarship, 2014-15 (Delta College)
*M. Seth Babcock Scholarship, 2013-14 (Delta College)
*President's List, Delta College, Winter 2013
*Honorable Mention, Column, Serious, Michigan Community College Press Association, “Investing in universal pre-school is a step in the right direction, ” 2013
*First United Methodist Church of Midland, MI, 2011 (for mission trip to Chiang Mai)  
*Dean's List, University of Minnesota, 2006-2008
*Winner for best art piece in the Ivory Tower Art and Literary Magazine published by the University of Minnesota, 2009
*Dean's List, MCAD, 2000-2005
*Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program grant (UROP), University of Minnesota, 2007
*Cari-DeWall Obst Uptown Association Scholarship, 2002-03, 2003-04 (MCAD)
*Girl Scout Gold Award, 2000
*Invitation from MSBOA to participate in Youth Arts Festival All-State Honors Orchestra in Ann Arbor, MI, 2000
*Honor Roll, Houghton High School, 1996-2000
*Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, scholarship (Copper Country Suzuki Association private and group violin lessons)
*Houghton High School Music Boosters, Band Camp Scholarship, 1996-1999

Friday, June 5, 2020

From Minneapolis to Palestine, we must end systemic racism [Op-Ed]

Op-Ed on George Floyd, written June 1, 2020.

Millions of people in the U.S. and around the world have viewed the videos of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis by a white police officer and three additional white police officers aiding in the killing.

It has sparked outrage that the officer with his knee on the neck of George Floyd, who pleaded that he could not breathe, was not originally arrested and the consequences for the other three are yet to be determined. Seeing this happen in South Minneapolis is hard because I used to live there.

Traveling to Palestine/Israel on a delegation in 2017, when I returned to the States I viewed race relations here at home with a sharper lens by seeing parallels to Palestine.

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

From Minneapolis to Palestine [Pictures]

A mural of George Floyd, who was murdered by police in Minneapolis, can be juxtaposed with murals of Palestinians murdered by the Israeli military at a refugee camp in Palestine/Israel. Recently President Trump stated his intention to deploy military across the United States to quell protests. In the U.S., the treatment of African Americans by law enforcement resembles the way the Israeli military treats Palestinians in Israel's effort to "ethnically cleanse" Palestine/Israel.

Photo above by Lorie Shaull via flickr. The George Floyd mural outside Cup Foods at Chicago Ave. and E. 38th St. in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Photo by Emma Johnson. Murals of refugees murdered by the Israeli military in the Deheisheh Refugee Camp in Palestine/Israel. The question mark posits, "Who will be next?"

Monday, May 11, 2020

Compass works to help LGBT during COVID-19 and beyond


Midland Daily News, 11 May 2020: XX. 

Friday, May 1, 2020

Colleges, Universities Embrace New Virtual Learning Reality


My Aesthetics SHEET MUSIC

Violin/piano/vocals/guitar parts:







Monday, April 27, 2020

My Aesthetics



By Emma C. Johnson
Written: Oct 2019 – Apr 2020
Recorded: Apr 23-25, 2020

LYRICS:
Alone with your aesthetics.
Alone with your aesthetics.
You aren't here but it feels like you're near
in a room with our aesthetics.
in a room with our aesthetics.

Void except for things.

A girl at a piano
purses her lips
cracked by centuries of drying.
Her blue satin sash
catches the light
in a room with my aesthetics.
in a room with my aesthetics.

Ballerinas
grasp bouquets
of perfectly positioned flowers.
The sun is pouring
in through the glass
in a room with my aesthetics.
in a room with my aesthetics.

Ceilings painted
with history.
Gold-leafed trim on white walls.
Crystal chandeliers line the hall.
The mirrors go on forever and ever and ever
in a room with my aesthetics.
in a room with my aesthetics.

Alone with my aesthetics.
Alone with my aesthetics.
Alone with my aesthetics.
Alone with my aesthetics.
You aren't here but it feels like you're near
in a room with my aesthetics.
My aesthetics.
My aesthetics.
My aesthetics.
My aesthetics.
My aesthetics.
My aesthetics.

Images videorecorded for B-roll from: 
The Musée d'Orsay, Barnes & Noble Books
your visit to Versailles, art lys
Degas: A strange new beauty, MoMA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, metmuseum.org

Images include:
0:14 Henri Fantin-Latour, Flowers and Fruit, 1865  
0:18 Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Daughters of Catulle Mendès Huguette (1871-1964), Claudine (1876-1937), 1888  
0:23 Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Two Young Girls at the Piano 1892  
0:27 Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Woman at the Piano, 1875-6  
0:32 Edgar Degas, The Dance Foyer at the Opéra at the rue Le Peletier, 1872  
0:35 Edgar Degas, Fin d'arabesque, c. 1877  
0:39 Edgar Degas, Dance Class, 1873-6  
0:44 Edgar Degas, Ballet Scene, c. 1879 
 0:48 Louis Le Vau, et al./Versailles, The War Drawing-Room  
0:52 Le Vau, et al./Versailles, The Hall of Mirrors 
 0:57 Edgar Degas, The Orchestra of the Opéra, c. 1870s

Poses include: 
0:10 Mary Cassatt, Young Woman in the Garden, c. 1883-6 
5:14 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The Source, 1856 
5:15 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The Virgin of the Host, 1854 
5:16 Edgar Degas, Little Dancer at Age Fourteen, 1880-1 
5:19 Gustave Courbet, The Spring, 1868 
5:20 Théodore Chassériau, The Tepidarium, 1853 
5:21 Édouard Manet, Luncheon on the Grass, 1863
 
FRENCH and GERMAN lyrics translation below:

Sunday, April 19, 2020

Quarantine Chronicle, Saginaw Art Museum online exhibition (COVID-19 Message on the Sidewalk)


Quarantine Chronicle, Saginaw Art Museum, (online) https://www.saginawartmuseum.org/quarantinechronicle/covid-19-message-on-the-sidewalk/ 18 Apr 2020

Friday, April 17, 2020

Artists on Hiatus online exhibition (Ice skating wristband)

Ice rink wristband. #80sthrowback #weareallonhiatus

#weareallonhiatus, Artists on Hiatus, (online) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_K2aykJsh7/ Instagram, 19 Apr 2020

Sassy with ballet slippers


Wednesday, March 25, 2020

April MCO concert cancelled due to COVID-19

The April 2020 Midland Community Orchestra concert is CANCELLED!
Please enjoy my favorite piece we were going to play at the concert: Beethoven's Symphony no. 7!

Figure skating show postponed due to COVID-19

Ice show POSTPONED!


Thursday, February 6, 2020

Toe loop

Midland Civic Arena, February 6, 2020.

https://youtu.be/8f9vqbfB9kE

Skater: Emma Johnson
Videographer: Coach Melanie Black

Saturday, February 1, 2020

20/20 Vision: Seeing HERstory Exhibition

See my mom, Dr. M. René Johnson, featured in a video in the "Nevertheless" gallery!

Image credit: Midland Center for the Arts

 JAN 25 – APR 26
On display in the Alden B. Dow Museum of Science & Art

https://www.mcfta.org/perspectives1920/
https://www.mcfta.org/alden-b-dow-museum-of-science-and-art/current-exhibitions/

Friday, January 24, 2020

Publications

PUBLICATIONS (399)
Topics covered

Animal rights
Art
Consumer safety
Cultures (China, India, Iraq, Palestine/Israel)
Economics
Education
Environment
Fashion
Finance
Gun violence
Healthcare
Law
Occupy Wall Street
Palestinian/Israeli conflict
Political campaigns and events
Public policy
Technology
Veterans


A Vision for Growth


“A Vision for Growth,” Greater Lansing Business Monthly, Dec 2019. https://lansingbusinessnews.com/features/2019/12/a-vision-for-growth/

VanCamp Incubator + Research Labs


VanCamp Incubator + Research Labs,” Greater Lansing Business Monthly, Dec 2019. https://lansingbusinessnews.com/business-news-today/2019/12/vancamp-incubator-research-labs/

Energy-Efficiency Jobs


Energy-Efficiency Jobs,” Greater Lansing Business Monthly, Dec 2019. https://lansingbusinessnews.com/business-news-today/2019/12/energy-efficiency-jobs/