Nicole Johnson is a visual artist and art educator from Kingston, Jamaica. She has taught and mentored collegiate art education students in her home city and in the United States. Nicole completed her Ed.D in art education at Teachers College, Columbia University where she is currently a Full Time Lecturer in Art and Art Education. Prior to this, she worked as an art education program chair in her home city. Her visual arts practice is grounded in drawing and painting, and explores concepts of tension, iteration, identity, and (re)presentation/perception, particularly through the lens of "Black woman-ness”. Her research interests include art educators’ development and reiteration of their professional identities and pedagogical practices, art educators of color’s racialized professional experiences, and decolonizing art curriculum and pedagogy.