Posted on Aug 24, 2006 Stephanie Anne Johnson was about to graduate from college when she found the light. A theater major at Boston's Emerson College in the mid-1970s, she took a class in lighting design in her next-to-last semester and discovered the medium that continues to inspire her as a theatrical lighting designer and artist."I just loved it," she recalled recently as she led a visitor through a tour of her show, "Stephanie Anne Johnson: Art and Theater, Legacy and Testimony" at San Francisco's Sargent Johnson Gallery. "When I graduated, the first jobs I had were jobs doing lighting design. I became fascinated with it and just kept working with it," said the CSUMB professor of art.
– San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 24, 2006