Born in Arkansas, Maryalice Johnston now lives and makes art in ENC. The rich green landscape filled with leafy shadows and wildlife inspires much of her work.
Johnston earned her BFA from Ringling College of Art + Design, Sarasota, FL and her MFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
She was in residence at the MacDowell Colony and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where she was a two-year Visual Arts Fellow.
After her Fellowship, she served as the Visual Arts Program Coordinator at FAWC for eleven years. During that time she participated in the The C-Scape Mapping Project - a collaboration of science and art, served on the Local Cultural Council, was a founding and active member of artSTRAND - a Provincetown art gallery owned and run by Cape Cod based artists. With her friends she formed the musical group Butter, an experiment in sound, noise and installation.
Her work appears on the book covers of Waterlings, Eileen Moeller, and My Secret Boat, Michael Burkard, and is included in Deborah Forman's 2013 publication Contemporary Cape Cod Artists: Images of Land and Sea. To see more of her work please visit maryalicejohnston.net.