Wild Goose Creative is proud to present May's 2026 Wild Gallery Exhibition, featuring Grace Johnson and Liz Trapp.

A native of Columbus, Grace Johnson was raised in a family that loved the natural world, books, antique textiles, Greek mythology, opera and making things from natural matter found in the woods, creeks and fields of Ohio. Johnson worked in Southeast Asia and Central America throughout the 1980s in the field of refugee protection and camp administration. She returned to the US in the early 1990s to raise her two sons and make a career in international programs at The Ohio State University. She divides her time between Columbus and her beloved Mexico where she has recently become a permanent resident. Her exhibited cloths will be from her Eucalyptus series, a body of work that she has been working on for the past 18 months in Columbus and Mexico.

Liz Trapp is an artist and textile designer living in Columbus with her husband and two kids. She has her BFA in Painting and Drawing, her MFA in Painting, and her MA in the History of Art. Her work has been featured in the publication 'New American Paintings' (2013 MFA Annual #105) and has been shown internationally. She attended a residency at the Pont-Aven School of Art in Brittany, France, and is a Gabr Foundation Fellow to Egypt. Liz is currently Associate Professor of Art & Art History at Columbus College of Art & Design, where she specializes in Contemporary Art, African Art, History of Fashion, and Contemporary Art in the Middle East and North Africa. Her writing and research has been published by Routledge Press (2019) and she was recently invited to speak at the Tower of London (UK) on the representation of textiles in contemporary Ghanaian painting in 2024.