Mirrah Johnson is a fiber artist based in Western North Carolina. Born and raised in rural Tennessee, she grew up inspired by the magic of textiles: the clothing her mom wore, an heirloom crochet bedspread, the way light filtered through curtains. In 2017, she earned a BFA in fiber from the Appalachian Center for Craft, where she learned traditional craft processes in the context of personal storytelling and creative inquiry – amidst a beautiful natural landscape. Her creative practice is rooted in a commitment to place, material, and slow making processes which function as resistance to oppressive systems. Exploring themes of personal history, myth, and connection to the earth, her work has been shown most recently at Toe River Arts Council (NC) and the Kleinert-James Gallery (NY). She has been awarded residencies at Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Penland, Arrowmont, and Starworks. She has worked as a seamstress making clothing out of handmade quilts and fine natural fibers, and currently she supports programming as textile studio coordinator at Penland School of Craft.