Marquetta Johnson is a native of Atlanta, Georgia who comes from four generations of family artisans – quilters, seamstresses, tailors, and embroiderers. They were foundational influences whose indelible imprints she would carry with her as she developed throughout her career. A practicing Teaching Artist and Quilter currently residing in Stone Mountain, Georgia, she has over twenty years of teaching and professional development experience in the areas of Arts Integration, Arts Infusion, and Inclusive Classrooms. She has appeared on HGTV’s Crafters Coast to Coast and many other radio and television shows discussing and demonstrating her art form. Her artwork has been featured in several magazines including Quilt Magazine and MARTA’s, MARTA on the Go Magazine. Marquetta is the author of the book Hand Dyed Quilts, now available on Amazon.com. She had affiliations with VSA Arts of Georgia, the Names Project-The Aids Memorial Quilt Foundation, the Atlanta Partnership for the Arts in Learning, and the High Museum of Art.

Her wall-hangings, pillows, and framed tapestries are in galleries and museum collections in San Antonio, New York, and Atlanta, as well as in the private collections of Mr. and Mrs. Bernie Marcus, Faith Ringgold, B.B. King, Lew and Clare Shomer and many corporate collections throughout the country.

A focal point in her career is sharing her love for textiles and quilting techniques with children and young people. Evidence of her exceptional teaching ability lies in the riveting images produced in the Olympic Youth Project 2006, sponsored by the Coca-Cola Company. The four-quilt series produced in collaboration with Atlanta Middle School students is displayed in the International Concourse at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport.

In support of her community, Marquetta is a Panel-Making Facilitator with the AIDS Memorial Quilt Foundation. She has supported the development of over one hundred panels celebrating the lives of people that died from the AIDS-related conditions, one which was featured in the PBS documentary, Craft in America in 2008. In support of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, Marquetta presented and exhibited in the Creativity in Crisis Area at the Smithsonian Institute’s Folklife Festival in the summer of 2012. She also collaborated with the Teen Team of the High Museum of Art in the development of The Hammock Garden for an Art on the Beltline Grant during 2011.