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Hi- I’m Beth.
A photographer from a small farming town in southern Idaho—making funky frames and using both traditional and experimental photo processes—to wrestle with some unruly questions about landscapes, perception, ecological and social tipping points, and the many ways we can come to know something. 


Current Research Interests:

Political Ecology, Climate Science, Social Practice, 
Poetry, and Place-based Pedagogies and Epistemologies.


Contact:

Beth Johnston (she/her)
info@beth-johnston.com
@beth_johnston_

(please reach out for a more formal/academic bio or statement)


EDUCATION:

MFA, Photography, Rhode Island School of Design
BA, Psychology and Physical Sciences, Wake Forest University


FELLOWSHIPS:

CU Boulder CASE (Colorado Art Science Environment Fellowship), 2022-24
Center for Fine Art Photography Dennis Roussel Fellowship, 2023


ARTIST TALKS / LECTURES

Parsons School of Design
Pratt Institute
MassArt
University of Colorado Boulder
New Mexico School for the Arts
Adams State University
Colorado Creative Industries
Breck Create
Der Greif Magazine
Imagining America
Center for the Arts Crested Butte
BRDG Project Gallery
SITE Santa Fe


CURRENT / UPCOMING

2026

Artist Residency
Vermont Studio Center
March 2nd-20th

Artist Residency
Studios at MASS MoCA
July 2nd-14th


TEACHING APPOINTMENTS

Adams State University
Rhode Island School of Design
Colorado Mountain College