Liza Johnson ‘92

Program Director

Associate Professor of Art

Johnson teaches film and video production as well as theory and criticism in the Art Department and the American Studies program at Williams. Her films and videos include Desert Motel, Fernweh/The Opposite of Homesick, Giftwrap, and Good Sister/Bad Sister. Her works have been screened widely in international film festivals, including the Berlin Film Festival, the Rotterdam Film Festival, and the New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center, as well as in fine arts venues and many queer film festivals. Her video installations have been exhibited at Artists' Space in New York, the ICA in Philadelphia, and at the Williams College Museum of Art. She has been the curator of many programs and exhibitions of film and video, and has published critical essays on film and art.

Courses:

Cinema and the City, Work/Ethics: Frameworks for Observing People at Work, New York City, Modernism, and the Origins of Cool

Link:

http://www.williams.edu/Art/wcart/faculty/johnson_l/ ljohnson.htm

Email:

Liza.Johnson@williams.edu