Alison Bergblom Johnson

alisonbergblomjohnson.com/now

Location:

Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.

Professional title:

Independent Artist

What do you do?

I make art, essays, and performances that center experiences we don't talk about enough like violence, mental health, and disability; I also am a teaching artist and artist career consultant.

Why?

I make the work I do because I think shame scatters when we share our stories.

What should we read?

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman