Beka Johnson

Art educator & creative mentor

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Inventive teaching.
Room to create.

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Students carving a large pink, black, and ivory printmaking block.Beka Johnson laughing with students while traveling abroad.
Learning, in the making.In the studio & out in the world

Creative education

An invitation
to imagine.

Beka brings the curiosity of an artist to the way she teaches. She helps students explore materials, develop their own ideas, and create work that reaches beyond the classroom.

From an experimental print to an immersive installation, the process is part of the discovery.

Beka Johnson leaning against an armchair and looking upward, in a black-and-white portrait.

Experiment.

Drawing, painting, printmaking, and mixed media open up different ways to express an idea.

Collaborate.

Large-scale prints and shared installations make room for problem-solving together.

Connect.

Exhibitions, public art, and travel bring creative learning into the wider world.

Selected student work

Individual expression, across materials and disciplines. A glimpse into the work of Beka’s students at Parish Episcopal School.

A framed mixed-media work with a dark circle, vivid colors, and a flower.
Mixed mediaStudent artwork · Parish Episcopal
A spherical blue-and-gold sculpture.
SculptureStudent artwork · Parish Episcopal
A student relief print of a vintage microphone in red, purple, and blue.
PrintmakingStudent artwork · Parish Episcopal

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Beka Johnson smiling in glasses, with her arm tattoos visible.
Beka Johnson

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About Beka

A creative mind.
A teacher at heart.

Beka Johnson is an art educator, creative mentor, and practicing artist.

At Parish Episcopal School, she teaches Upper School Art and helps students find their own creative voice. Her work spans studio exploration, collaborative printmaking, immersive installations, and art experiences beyond the classroom.

Her background includes co-founding Piranha Bear Art Collective and curating exhibitions. That experience as a maker and collaborator informs the opportunities she creates for students.

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Learning in practice

Many ways
to discover.

Student work, shared experiences, and new perspectives. Explore the creative life of the classroom and beyond.

A framed mixed-media work with a dark circle, vivid colors, and a flower.

Student Work

Ideas taking shape. Individual voices coming through.

40 photographs
A visitor with a colorful sculptural animal in a blue immersive environment.

Impact

Exhibitions and immersive student projects.

7 photographs
A large group presents a print beside a steamroller.

Community

Steamroller Print Fest, shared studios, and exhibitions.

24 photographs
A group gathers at a scenic overlook during an art trip abroad.

Abroad

Travel, curiosity, and new ways of seeing.

16 photographs
A group framed by a large circular outdoor sculpture.

NAHS

A community connected through art.

19 photographs

Creative learning, out in the world

Ideas become
experiences.

From an immersive student-built world to a print made with a steamroller: room to think bigger, make together, and share the result.

2025Collaborative installation

SPARK! Dallas × Meow Wolf Grapevine

Underwater
Origami Forest

Parish Episcopal students imagined and built this immersive blue world for PRISMATIC: Fantastical Realms, the 2025 exhibition at SPARK! Dallas, presented in partnership with Meow Wolf Grapevine.

One of six student-designed rooms, the installation brought sculpture and storytelling into a space the public could explore. Beka guided the Parish team from concept to installation, with additional mentorship from Meow Wolf’s creative team.

A visitor in the students’ immersive blue installation, surrounded by sculptural forms and circular textures.
Inside the student-created installation

Student artists: Sahara Tran, Marley Martinez, and Elliott Lewis.
Art teacher and mentor: Beka Johnson.

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Steamroller Print Fest

Art, made
together.

Designing. Carving. Printing. Large-scale printmaking turns an idea into a shared experience, from the studio table to a public event.

Beka Johnson kissing Randy, the Steamroller Print Fest armadillo mascot, while holding a miniature steamroller.

Steamroller Print Fest

Meet the
mascot.

A little love for Randy, the Steamroller Print Fest armadillo mascot.

More of Beka
Hands carving a large portrait design into a pink printmaking block.
Inside the studio
Students prepare a large print beside a steamroller at an outdoor printmaking event.
Steamroller Print Fest

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Art beyond
the classroom.

Her Art in the City: Exploring the Role of Public Art in Communities course through Parish Plus connects art study with the spaces people share.

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Yoga

Space to
be present.

YogaFlow:
Empower Yourself

Beka’s teaching also reaches beyond the art studio. Her yoga session for Parish’s 2025 Voices & Views program invited high school students to explore balance, strength, and calm.

Recognition & experience

Selected highlights.

2026

Mentor recognition

Honored by a
Cornell Merrill Scholar

Maya Abrol selected Beka as the high school teacher she honored through Cornell’s 2026 Merrill Presidential Scholars program.

About the Cornell honor
2025

Juror & Guest Artist

Ursuline Academy

Beka joined Ursuline Academy as a guest artist and juror, speaking with students about artistry and selecting award winners for the Spring Exhibition.

Beka Johnson, at the front left in a pink-and-green shirt, smiling with the Ursuline art community.
Beka with the Ursuline art community.Shared by @uaphoto1874 · May 3, 2025
2022

Professional development

NAEA School
for Art Leaders

Included in the National Art Education Association’s School for Art Leaders Class of 2022 yearbook.

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2022

Exhibition

Texas Art
Education Association

Big Bend Blue appears in TAEA’s 2022 Annual Members Art Show.

View the artwork entry

Personal art

A practice
of her own.

Alongside her teaching, Beka keeps making. Paintings, prints, and murals carry her own curiosity, color, and unmistakable point of view.

She signs every painting with her thumbprint. A small impression. A personal mark.

View her personal collection Explore her murals
Big Bend Blue by Beka Johnson: a blue camper in a sunlit desert landscape, in its original wooden frame.
Big Bend BlueSpray paint & acrylic · Beka Johnson
Beka Johnson looking toward the camera while seated cross-legged in a green armchair, wearing a warm brown outfit with her arm tattoos visible.

Get in touch

Let’s start a
conversation.

Creative education, collaborations & art enquiries

972.467.2321ms.beka.johnson@gmail.com