Tohono O'odham Artist Featured

Pima Community College will feature Native American basket weaver Terrol Dew Johnson discussing, “Form Over Function: A Tohono O’odham Artist’s Story” on Friday, Feb. 22 at 10:00 a.m.  The presentation at the Community Performing Arts and Learning Center in Green Valley is free and open to the public.

The presentation is part of the college’s Community Education Lecture Series, featuring the peoples, history, cultures and places of Southern Arizona.  

Terrol Dew Johnson is co-director and co-founder of Tohono O’odham Community Action.  He learned to weave baskets starting when he was ten years old.   With recognition from the Sante Fe Indian Market, the Heard Museum Fair and the Southwest Indian Art Fair, he is among the finest examples in the long tradition of Native American basket weavers.  His works are in numerous permanent collections, including the Heard Museum and the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of the American Indian. 

For more information about artist Terrol Dew Johnson, visit his website at www.tdewj.com.

The Community Performing Arts and Learning Center in Green Valley is located at 1250 W. Continental Road. 

For more information about this event and other upcoming events sponsored by Pima Community College, call 206-4500 or visit www.pima.edu.

PRESS CONTACT: David Irwin, Executive Director for Public Information,
(520) 206-4528