Mary Frisbee Johnson (MFA, University of Cincinnati), is a native of Montana and currently
serves as professor of drawing in the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa,
Cedar Falls, Iowa. Her work in metals/jewelry, mixed-media sculpture, installation sculpture,
and drawing has been exhibited extensively in over eighty national and international exhibits,
including twenty-one solo exhibitions, and her work is in the Medals Collection of the British
Museum, London. Current metals work can be seen at Artisan's Gallery, New York, NY;
Adornment Gallery, Baltimore, MD.

Illustrations. Snyder, Jeffrey B. Art Jewelry Today 2. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2008.

Illustration. Little, Carl. 2007 Smithsonian Craft Show, Ornament magazine, March, 2007,
Volume 30, No. 3, p. 36.

Illustration, Medal for Exploration. Simon, Marjorie. 500 Brooches. New York: Lark Books,
2005.

Recent exhibitions include:

New Works in Tin and Silver. Solo exhibition. Appalachian Center for Craft,
Tennessee Tech University, Smithville, TN. 2008

Pop Culture Collision. National invitational group exhibition. Shaw Jewelry,
Northeast Harbor, ME. 2008

The First Iowa Metals Guild Exhibition. International invitational group exhibition.
Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Saint Petersburg, Russia. 2008

2007 Craft Biennial: A Review of Northwest Art and Craft. Regional juried group exhibition.
Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR

25th Anniversary Smithsonian Crafts Show. National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.
April, 2007

All I Want For Christmas, invitational group jewelry exhibition. Gallery M.I.M., Baltimore,
MD, 2006-07

The Game Show, national juried jewelry and small sculpture exhibition. Portland
Contemporary Crafts Museum and Gallery, Portland, OR, 2006

Shelter Me, national juried jewelry and metals exhibition. Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago,
IL, 2006

Unfolding, national juried metals and drawings exhibition. Kendall Gallery, Kendall College
of Art and Design of Ferris State University, Grand Rapids, MI, 2006

International invitational group exhibition. Anti-War Medals Traveling Exhibition, curated
by Velvet da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2004-06. Gallery I/O, New Orleans, Louisiana,
USA. Barents Spectacle, Kirkenes, Norway. FAD, Hipotesi Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
FIDEM Conference, Lisbon, Portugal. Troms¯ Kunstforening, Troms¯, Norway. Nordnorsk
Kunstnersentrum, SvolvÊr, Norway. Festspillene i Nordnorge, Harstad, Norway.
Electrum Gallery, London, England

100 Brooches Traveling Exhibition. Velvet da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco, CA (from the
book 500 Brooches, Lark Books, Publishers), 2005-06. Pacini Lubel Gallery, Seattle, WA.
Bellagio Gallery, Ashville, NC. School of Art and Design, East Carolina University,
Greenville, NC

Secret Identities: Intriguing Wearable Art, Gallery M.I.M., Baltimore, MD, 2005

Group invitational jewelry exhibition. Velvet da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2004-05

A Survey of Contemporary Jewelry. Chicago Metal Arts Guild, Mindscape Adornments
Gallery, Evanston, IL, 2004

Hammer and Hand: Contemporary American Metal, Center Art Gallery, Calvin College,
Grand Rapids, MI, 2004

Crafts National 38, Zaner Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA,
2004

Selections from the Anti-War Medals Exhibition, Velvet da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco,
CA,, at COLLECT, British Crafts Council, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, 2003

Outside The Jewelry Box, juried national jewelry and metals exhibition. Contemporary
Crafts Museum, Portland, OR, 2003

Invitational Exhibition of the UNI Department of Art at the Russian State Pedagogical
University, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2003