DANIEL JOHNSON
MISSISSIPPI DELTA, 2022 - 2023
daniel johnson is a multi-disciplinary artist, public historian, and dad working in community in the Southeast. Focused on agency, equity, and the formation of agreements, johnson’s artistic process is rooted in the unfolding, intersecting stories of everyday life. Through deep listening, reflections on belonging, and facilitated community storytelling, johnson works with groups of people to harness their unique cultural expressions in a co-design process to disrupt power dynamics and realize shared intentions. johnson believes that the communicative, connective power of culture provides the most powerful tools for forming affinity and focusing energies toward practical impacts for everyday life. He currently serves as the Board Secretary for both Alternate ROOTS and Sipp Culture. His work has been featured by PolicyLink, Center for the Future of Museums, Georgetown University’s Gnovis journal, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Community Development Innovation Review, and Mississippi Today.
Daniel used his time at Artists At Work to learn about the community and facilitate his Culture Hub and Social Impact Partner in the development of a long-term, sustainable, collaborative relationship. Together they celebrated this new relationship by collaborating on the design for some hand-painted roadside signs for the public health clinic in Utica.
CULTURE HUB
The Mississippi Center for Cultural Production (Sipp Culture) was founded in 2017 in Utica, Mississippi, to champion arts and culture as a foundational element in building community health and wellness in the rural South. At its core, the organization’s work is about restoring hope and possibility to the rural Black southern landscape through supporting creativity, imagination, remembrance, and the fostering of new relationships. These approaches are tactical; the goal is to transform communities and support the regeneration of rural spaces as spaces for cultural production.
For more information, visit sippculture.org.