About Johanna Norry

My work employs traditional techniques of weaving, hand knitting, coiling, embroidery and stitching to create work that often combines comforting materials with discomforting images and ideas. My artistic process is to respond, materially, to my research and culminates with art and installations that are themselves a sort of documentation, an accumulation/manipulation of evidence—incomplete, distorted, a fraction of the truth that remains/is revealed by my material interpretations

I am an assistant professor teaching weaving, textiles, 2D Design and Color Theory at Kennesaw State University’s School of Art and Design. In 2018, I received an MFA in Fabric Design from the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, a BFA in Textiles from Georgia State University in 2015, and a BA in Anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College in 1986. My work has been featured in Photo Trouvée Magazine, juried exhibitions and group shows in New York City, New Jersey, New Mexico, Kentucky, Texas, Victoria, BC., and in Georgia at the The Georgia Museum of Art, The Lyndon House, Marcia Wood Gallery, The Bakery, and MINT. In 2023, my new woven collage work was featured in a duo show, Common Threads, with fellow textile artist, Amanda Britton, at Berry College’s Moon Gallery in Rome, Georgia, in 2024 at Westobou in Augusta, Georgia, in a duo show with Amanda Britton called Material Archive at Athica in Athens, Georgia, and is scheduled to be at the Appalachian Center for Craft at Tennessee Tech University in 2027. In 2026, I had a small quilt published in the book Stitching Together History, and the exhibit of the same name at the Virginia Quilt Museum in Dayton, Virginia.