Bio:
Johannah Silva is a Chicago-based artist. She received her MFA in Painting from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BA from the University of California at Berkeley. She is currently a faculty member in the Dept. of Visual and Performing Arts at Wilbur Wright College in Chicago where she teaches studio arts including watercolor painting, figure drawing and photography. She has been a practicing artist for the last 15 years and her art has been exhibited in various venue in Chicago including the University of Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, and Womanmade Gallery, as well as nationally and internationally. She has been giving workshops through the Winsor Newton Artist Outreach Program since 2002.