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Writing residency leads to autobiographical play for VPA professor

Dr. Stephanie Anne Johnson, professor of Visual and Public Art, was awarded a writing residency in Atlanta last fall. During that time, she wrote a second play, Mrs. Reiff and The Counterfeit Shop. This autobiographical play about the relationship between a black teenager and a Holocaust survivor was presented to a standing-room-only audience at the East Bay Jewish Community Center in January. She co-curated the Black Love exhibit at the JanRae Gallery in Oakland, recently served as a juror for The Art of Living Black, and was a review panelist for the San Francisco Art Commission.