Artist Statement

Carla Rae Johnson collaborated with writer Baruŝka Lipski (Barbara Lipp) and audio technician, Gene Panczenko to produce “Pandemica Playhouse,” a hysterically entertaining though dreadful puppet show featuring the “Supreme Leader,” Melania, Mike Pence, and Buzzy the Fly.
The “Pandemic Playhouse: a Dreadful Puppet Show” offered its audiences three acts in each of six performances. The acts were read by author, Barbara Lipp. Puppets and puppet theater were constructed by the artist. SRO crowds cheered and jeered at each performance in downtown Peekskill, NY.

Arc-ivist Statement

In early 2020, Arc-ivist, Carla Rae Johnson was busy scheduling exhibitions for the “Arc of the Moral Universe” notebooks, as news of the threat of a worldwide pandemic emerged.  By the end of March, it was apparent that a sequel to the first notebook project was called for to inspire unique, personal accounts of a world turned inside-out by isolation, sickness, fears, deaths, doubts, rumors, lies, and political turmoil.  Then, the murder of George Floyd, the spotlight on systemic racism, nationwide protests, monuments being toppled, a crucial presidential election, our democracy challenged, and an insurrection mounted against our nation’s capital magnified the historic moments of 2020-21.

Artist Statement

“Is my country right or wrong?  Where is justice?  Will there be unity?”

These are some of the many questions posed by In_Question in windows in the downtown artist district of Peekskill, NY.