12/12 Best Local Fashion Designer by Arizona Foothills Magazine
12/11 Best Local Fashion Designer by Arizona Foothills Magazine
12/10 Best Local Fashion Designer by Arizona Foothills Magazine
11/10 Scottsdale Fashion Week Coordinator: Designer of the Year, Community Night & Educational Series
09/10 Featured in Lawrence King publishing book called “Eco Fashion” by Sass Brown
07/10 Spoke at the AZ Department of Education’s Fashion Forum at Scottsdale Fashion Square and was awarded a plaque for “inspiring the future”
07/10 Hired as instructor in the fashion program at Collins College
04/10 Judged student fashion show for the East Valley Institute of Technology
04/10 Speaker at Mountain Pointe High School’s Women’s Mentor Day
2010 Official costume designer for the Arizona Derby Dames roller derby team: The Coffin Draggers and for one of the referees
12/09 Nominated for and joined Fashion Group International of Arizona’s Board of Directors
12/09 Showed line at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising’s Arizona Alumni Christmas event
11/09 Showed 2010 line at Scottsdale Fashion Week titled: Broads, Dames and Bomber Girls
10/09 Scottsdale Fashion Week Coordinator: Designer of the Year show at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts
09/09 Work exhibited in Eco Fabulous event at the AZ Science Center
09/09 Helped to coordinate Fashion Group International’s Night of Stars event
08/09 Nominated for and joined the Fashion Group International of Arizona’s Board of Directors
04/09 Helped coordinate and showed work in Mesa Community College’s A Night at the Masquerade Fashion Show
2009 Angela featured on the Greater Phoenix Convention & Visitor’s Bureau website video entitled “My Phoenix Dream Day”.
12/08 Showed line at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising’s Arizona Alumni event Haute Holiday on the Runway
11/08 Organizes and exhibited work in Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts SMoCA Nights: STITCHED 8 designer fashion show.
11/08 Angela Johnson Spring 2008 Fashion Show entitled Candyland shown at Scottsdale Fashion Week on Southbridge Runway
05/08 Angela Johnson Fall 2008 Fashion Show entitled Angela Johnson’s Vaudeville Style Mystery Menagerie at the Clarendon Hotel.
01/08 Line featured in Go Fashionably Green, an eco-friendly fashion show at Changing Hands bookstore hosted by TV3’s Carey Pena.
2008 Hired by Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising as Speaker
12/07 Did a presentation on the Stages of Apparel Production for the AZ Department of Education’s Design and Merchandising Workshop
11/07 Scottsdale Fashion Week Designer of the Year finalist
07/07 Angela is interviewed by “Inside the Artist’s Mind” which is aired continuously on local TV networks
02/07 Judged the Fashion Group International’s Rising Star competition
12/06 Selected by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art to nominate someone for their annual Contemporary Catalyst Award. Nominated: Evonne Bowling.
11/05 Organizes and exhibited work in 4rd annual LabelHorde Fashion Ball featuring the designs of over 60 of Arizona’s Designers
11/06 Sponsor of Phoenix Fashion Week
09/06 Coordinated multiple designer fashion show and trunk show for the Urban Affair urban living event at the Phoenix Convention Center that featured Project Runway designer as Emcee
09/06 Hired to coordinate the annual Diaspora Fashion Showcase in Tucson
05/06 Featured in the Scottsdale Convention & Visitor’s Bureau’s Experience Scottsdale Destination Guide.
05/06 Selected as a speaker for Circles of Learning Seminar “How to Start and Grow Your Fashion Biz”
05/06 Selected to donate a design to the SMoCA Warhol fundraiser at the Valley Ho Hotel
03/06 Organizes and exhibited work in Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts SMoCA Nights: POP 10 designer fashion show.
2006 Line featured in book, Phoenix: 21st Century City… the fourth book in a series about metropolises that are emerging creatively by publisher Booth-Clibborn Editions
2006 Hired by Mesa Community College as an instructor in the Fashion program
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
2005 Hired by the Art Institute of Phoenix to teach in the Fashion Marketing program
2005 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
2005 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
10/04 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 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 Hired by New School for the Arts as the fashion design instructor
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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