Achievements

11/08 Showed at Scottsdale Fashion Week

11/08 Showed in Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts SMoCA Nights show

05/08 Angela Johnson's Fall 08 Fashion Show at The Clarendon Hotel

11/07 Showed at Scottsdale Fashion Week

03/06 Organizes and exhibited work in Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts SMoCA Nights: POP 10 designer fashion show.

01/06 Organizes and exhibited work in a show at Four White Walls to showcase the work of local designers to publisher Booth-Clibborn Editions who is writing, Phoenix: 21st Century City… the fourth book in a series about metropolises that are emerging creatively

12/05 Designs featured in casual fashion show at Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising’s holiday alumni event

11/05 Helped to organize and coordinate the first Phoenix Fashion Week


11/05 Organizes and exhibited work in 3rd annual LabelHorde Fashion Ball featuring the designs of over 60 of Arizona’s Designers

11/05 Organized and exhibited work in Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts SMoCA Nights: 7 Designer “BUZZ” fashion show

10/05 Angela’s designs featured in the 2nd annual FGI Rising Star awards fashion show. Angela also helps to organize this show.

06/05 Organized and exhibited work in Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts SMoCA Nights: SPLASH 16 designer fashion show

06/05 Special guest award Presenter at Arizona Infusion of Music Awards

05/05 Angela Johnson Fall 05 Fashion Show: Sideshow Freak in the Padded Room at Loft 19 Studios

04/05 Donated a Design for Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts Fundraiser entitled “Get SmArt”. Also designed dress that the SMoCA director, Susan Krane, wore to the fundraiser

04/05 Guest Speaker at Westwind Preparatory Academy’s 5th Annual Career Day

03/05 Organized and exhibited work in Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts SMoCA Nights: CHILL 10 designer fashion show

02/05 Who’s Who Among America’s Teacher’s Award 2005 recipient (Awarded to only a select 5% of America’s Teachers)

01/05 Angela, along with LabelHorde business partner, Rhonda Zayas, create the Arizona Fashion Foundation as a non-profit organization

05 to present Angela begins teaching Fashion Marketing classes at the Art Institute of Phoenix

05 Organized a 4 day, 10 designer, fashion show for the Scottsdale Arts Festival at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts’ annual arts festival which gets approximately 30,000 visitors

05 Donated services for Catwalk in the Art Fashion Show benefiting Phoenix Children’s Hospital

12/04 Clothing featured in Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising Arizona Alumni Association’s Holiday gathering fashion exhibit.

12/04 Organized and exhibited work in downtown Tempe Mill Avenue Holiday Fashion Showcase 6 boutique fashion show with the Downtown Tempe Communities at Hayden Square

12/04 Scottsdale Cultural Council’s Visual Artist of the Year – Honored with award dinner at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts with the Chairman’s Circle level donors.

11/12 Organized and exhibited work in the 2nd Annual LabelHorde Fashion Ball 60 designer fashion show at Bentley Projects

11/04 Organized and exhibited work in the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts SMoCA Night’s: EPIC 10 designer fashion show

10/09 Collaborated with Artlink Phoenix to organize and exhibit work in the Wearable Art Auction and runway show featuring the collaborative works of 48 artists and fashion designers

10/04 One of the 20 Arizona “Woman of Savvy” recipients from the Growth Improvement for Female Teens (GIFT) Organization

10/04 Organized LabelHorde Designer of the Month Fashion Show and costume party with 40’s gangster theme, featuring the designs of Lillian Langford at Studio LoDo

09/04 Fashion Group International’s 2004 Arizona Rising Star Award recipient

09/04 Organized (before having knowledge of winning the award) and exhibited work in the Fashion Group International’s Rising Star Awards 10 designer fashion show. Also designed gown that FGI director, Dawn McCallum wore to the event.

09/04 Organized LabelHorde Designer of the Month Fashion Show and costume party with Transylvanian Trends theme, featuring the designs of Monica Russ at Phoenix Center for the Arts

08/04 Organized “Spotlight”: LabelHorde’s Model Search sponsored by Ford Robert Black Agency

08/04 Organized LabelHorde Designer of the Month Fashion Show and costume party with a trailer trash theme, featuring the designs of Omar Call of nihilo. at Studio LoDo

07/04 Organized “Speakeasy”, an in-store sale for Swell on Mill Avenue in Tempe including models posing as live mannequins

06/04 Items featured in The Parlor Local Designer Fashion Show at Jetz

06/04 The Parlor opens an Angela Johnson room in their shop

06/04 Organized and exhibited work in the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts SMoCA Nights: SPICY 9 designer fashion show

06/04 LabelHorde Magazine changes to LabelHorde Fashion, an online organization, replacing the printed magazine and Angela takes on new business partners, Rhonda Zayas and Joanna Manganaro

05/04 Organized LabelHorde Designer of the Month Fashion Show and costume party: GLOSS with an 80’s theme, featuring the designs of Tiffe Fermaint at the 504.

05/04 Chosen by the Arizona Department of Education, Career and Technical Education Division as a design team member for the Adaptation/Adoption Curriculum Framework Process for Fashion Design and Merchandising.

05/04 Organized and exhibited work in STITCH: A day of fashion at the Ice House in Downtown Phoenix featuring over 40 designers in an all day trunk show and an evening fashion show

05/04 Speaker at Fashion Group International Alumni reception with Pat McMahon

05/04 Items featured with Magda Wrosinska in “Homegrown” fashion show at 504

04/04 Items featured in “Kill the Paparazzi” fashion show by boutique “Mary Jane @ Kontrive”

04/04 Organized the pairing up of designers with hair stylists for the Supreme Salon Tour and exhibited work on models styled by Ethan Murray of Urban Hair (Allure Magazine’s Best of Phoenix Stylist)

02/04 Collaborated with Superstar Entertainment to help organize and exhibited in the trunk show portion of Jamboree: A festival of the Arts at Suede in Downtown Scottsdale

02/04 Items featured in The Rebirth Festival at the Icehouse in downtown Phoenix

02/04 Who’s Who Among America’s Teacher’s Award 2004 recipient (awarded to only a select 5% of America’s Teachers)

02/04 Organized and exhibited work in the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts SMoCA Nights: TART 9 designer Fashion Show

01/04 Donated item for Body Postive: AIDS fundraiser at Scottsdale Center for the Arts

12/03 Items featured in The Phoenix Shanti Group’s Fashion Makes a Difference AIDS Fundraiser fashion show

11/03 Organized and exhibited items in the 1st annual LabelHorde Fashion Ball 50 designer fashion show

10/03 Work featured on all of Urban Hair’s models for Hair Wars

10/03 Organized and exhibited work in Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts SMoCA Nights: WICKED 10 designer fashion show

03 Organized and exhibited work in weekly trunk shows at Mickey’s Hangover in Downtown Scottsdale featuring different clothing and accessory designers

10/03 Angela creates LabelHorde Magazine with business partner, Daisy Rast, as a way to help promote people working in the fashion fields in Arizona and to provide a foundation for the newly emerging industry.

08/03 Items exhibited in Phoenix Infusion Fashion Series Fashion Show at Club O

07/03 Items exhibited in LIFE: 4th of July festival at Icehouse in downtown Phoenix

06/03 Designs and constructs costumes for the Studio One performance of The Curse of the Purple Tutu

06/03 Organized and exhibited work in Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts SMoCA Nights: HEAT 10 designer fashion show

06/03 Organizes and hosts cocktail party to discuss the upcoming SMoCA Nights event and to bring together fashion minded professionals in AZ

05/03 Organized and exhibited work in Scottsdale/PV YMCA Celebration of Women day fashion show

05/03 Angela Johnson Fall 03 Fashion Show at Club Freedom

04/03 Angela does solo fashion show at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts’ SMoCA Nights: POLLINATE event (the first in a series of local designer features Angela was asked to organize shortly after her solo show

03/03 Items featured in Trompe l’oeil style fashion show at Monorchid in downtown Phoenix organized by Dennita Sewell, Curator of Fashion at the Phoenix Art Museum

01/03 Items on display at New School for the Arts for the Faculty Exhibition

03 Organized student fashion show for New School for the Arts

01 Poem published by the International Library of Poetry

01 Speaker on “Starting and Marketing Your Own Business” at Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising Arizona Alumni Workshop

01 Organized student fashion show for New School for the Arts

01 to present Member of Fashion Group International

00 to 05 Fashion Design Instructor at New School for the Arts and Academics

00 Monkeywench exhibits at The Look Show at the California Market Center (formerly the California Mart) in LA and participates in The Look Show fashion show

07/99 Monkeywench exhibits at ASR Trade show in San Diego and Ritual Fashion and Music Expo in LA

03/99 Monkeywench exhibits at Magic Trade show in Las Vegas in the Edge section and sponsors the Edge Party

99 Angela is invited to Nickelodeon Studios twice to have a trunk show for the artists and employees

99 Speaker at Career Connections Day at Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising

8/98 Speaker at Career Connections Day at Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising

5/98 Speaker at Career Connections Day at Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising

97 Monkeywench Fashion Show at Billboard Live in Hollywood, CA

97 Speaker at Career Connections Day at Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising

96 First catalog is created for Monkeywench

96 Monkeywench exhibits at Freshtracks Trade Show in Irvine, CA

95 to 00 Created “Monkeywench” – Clothing line co-owned with Actress Christy Clark of Days of Our Lives and fellow FIDM graduate Dana Wilson.

95 to 98 Worked at X-Large Manufacturing and X-Girl – Clothing line owned by Mike D. of the Beastie Boys and members of Sonic Youth. Worked up from a cutter to Designer to Production Manager in 3 years.

6/95 Graduated in the Professional Designation program at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising

3/95 Honor Roll – Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising

9/94 Honor Roll – Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising

7/94 Honor Roll – Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising

5/94 Graduated from Northern Arizona University with A Bachelor of Science in Speech Communication

94 Member and Public Relations officer of Mortar Board Senior Honors Society at NAU

93 Member and Public Relations officer of Gamma Phi Beta at NAU

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