Steven Johnson

“I want to encourage students to stretch their faith, intellect, and creativity in a challenging interdisciplinary environment that promotes the development of a poetic sensibility. As an artist who professes the Christian faith, I’m passionate about the idea that art can help name the problem of alienation and can help bring forth authentic community. As a teacher, I’m interested in mentoring students as they add their voices to this community of namers.”

• You can view a selection of his photography at his www.stevendavidjohnson.com or follow his life in the Shendandoah Valley at www.virginiajournal.org.
• Steve is the cover artist for the summer 2008 issue of Ruminate: Faith in Literature and Art
• Steve was the featured artist in a recent issue of Rock & Sling: A Journal of Literature, Art, and Faith

• (2001) M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design
  
• (1995) B.A., Houghton College

• (2008, Summer) Traces of Place. Ruminate: Faith in Literature and Art 8:cover, inside cover, 63-64. Featured artist (cover photo, three additional photos, artist’s statement and biography).
  
• (2008, Spring) Press photographs for recording artist D.M. Stith: (Five photographs) Asthmatic Kitty web site
  
• (2007, Oct) Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: National Geographic Traveler magazine, 24, n7:68 (photograph).
  
• (2007, Summer) Lightning over ix, Festival workshop: Festival of the Photograph web site, (National Geographic Staff Photographer, Nick Nichols, chose two of my photographs to document the June 2007 festival).
  
• (2007, Summer) Cherry Tree, Campus Center: Crossroads, 88, n1:20, 23 (two photographs).
  
• (2007, May) Photofinish spread: eightyone magazine, May:31 (five photographs).
  
• (2007, February) Photofinish spread: eightyone magazine, February (two photographs).
  
• (2006, December) Photofinish spread: eightyone magazine, December (full page photo).
  
• (2006, October) Photofinish spread: eightyone magazine, October (four photographs).
  
• (2006, Spring) Cover photo: Rock & Sling: A Journal of Literature, Art, and Faith 3, n1.
  
• (2005, Spring) The creatures among us. Rock & Sling: A Journal of Literature, Art, and Faith 2, n1:cover, 10, 17, 32, 49, 129, 130-134. Featured artist (cover photo, five additional photos, extended artist’s statement and biography).

(2006, June) Panel respondent for visiting scholar, David Whisnant, at National Endowment for the Humanities Appalachian Studies institute, Ferrum College, Ferrum, VA (invited).

• (2008, March) Traces of place. Two person exhibit (photography) and artist’s talk, Davison Gallery, Roberts Wesleyan College.
  
• (2007, October 13-November 9) Traces of place. Group faculty exhibit (photography), Sadie Hartzler Library Gallery, Eastern Mennonite University.
  
• (2007, Spring) Oregon extension video. Produced and directed a promotional video for the Oregon Extension, a semester program in the Cascade Mountains of southern Oregon.
  
• (2007, Spring) stevendavidjohnson.com. A new promotional Web site about my photography work.
  
• (2006, October) The creatures among us. Photography exhibit, Rock Town Yarns, Harrisonburg, VA.
  
• (2006, May) Coming to the table. A site that displays the stories and photographs of participants in CJP’s Coming to the Table project.
  
• (2006, March 13-April 7) The creatures among us. Solo exhibit (photography), Sadie Hartzler Library Gallery, Eastern Mennonite University.
  
• (2005-2007) Virginia journal photoblog. A Web site featuring photography and digital imagery about life in the Shenandoah Valley.

• (2007-2008): Two year term on advisory board for Rock & Sling: A Journal of Literature, Art, and Faith.
  
• (2006-2008) Shenandoah Anabaptist Science Society Steering Committee member. Designed newsletters and maintained Web site.
  
• (2007-2008) Member of Church retreat planning committee for Community Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA.
  
• (2007, Spring) The Children of CMC. Photography/Multimedia presentation at Community Mennonite Church in Harrisonburg, VA.
  
• (2006, Fall) Documentary photography for Mennofolk festival, Harrisonburg, VA.
  
• (2006, Summer) Estonoa wetlands. Photography book for the Estonoa Wetlands Project in southwestern Virginia.
  
• (2006, Summer) Photographic documentation of Kurdish children at a community celebration to assist the Standing With Our Neighbors project in Harrisonburg, VA.
  
• (2005, Fall) Careers in digital media. Presentation on Digital Media Careers at Eastern Mennonite High School (invited).

• (2007, Summer) EMU Summer Grant to develop a new cross cultural trip: Land, Fisheries, and Cultural Change: Interviews with the People of Newfoundland and Labrador.
  
• (2006, Summer) Awarded a $3000 stipend to study at the 2006 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute at Ferrum College: Regional Study and the Liberal Arts: An Appalachian Exemplar.
  
• (2005-2006) Awarded EMU mini-grant and release time for The Creatures Among Us, photography book and Web site.

(2006-2008) Society of Photographic Educators

• (2008, June) The Festival of the Photograph, main sessions and one week photographic workshop with Eugene Richards, Charlottesville.
  
• (2007, June) The Festival of the Photograph, main sessions and master class, Charlottesville.
  
• (2007, March) Society of Photographic Educators National Conference, Miami.
  
• (2006, March) Society of Photographic Educators National Conference, Chicago.

• (2008, Summer) Cross Cultural Social Science:Newfoundland, Labrador and Nunatsiavut.
  
• (2008, Spring) Advanced Black and White Photography.
  
• (2007, Spring) Issues and Values: Relating to the Land.
  
• (2006, Spring) Redeveloped Web Design Production so that students could work on a real-life team web project that involved developing an interactive application for Intercultural Communicative Competence in conjunction with Dan Wessner’s Human Rights course.

• (2007, Spring-2009, Spring) Elected for two year term on Faculty Senate. Served on Academic Committee.
  
• (2007-2008) Fall Faculty/Staff Conference Planning Committee
  
• (2006-2008) Undergraduate Enrollment Strategies Working Group
  
• (2007, Fall) EMU delegate to presidential inauguration at Houghton College
  
• (2007, Spring) Powerpointers. Presentation on effective use of multimedia in student presentations for Speech Communication class.
  
• (2006-2007) Curriculum Revision Study Group
  
• (2007, Spring) Three photographs chosen by Advancement Department for EMU birthday cards.
  
• (2006-2007) Redesigned Visual and Communication Arts Web site with a new search paradigm.
  
• (2006, Summer) Represented EMU at Technology and Innovation conference at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.
  
• (2006) Marketing Services Director Search Committee
  
• (2005-2006) Proposed and helped develop a Digital Media Major at EMU.