Name: Kay Johnson
Title: Registrar
Time in current position (date started): Began December 7, 2009 (currently 1-1/2 years into the position)
Previous job: Registrar/Manager of Architecture Study Center at Price Tower Arts Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. This is a museum of art, architecture, and design housed in the only completed Frank Lloyd Wright skyscraper.
Family: My parents and brother are in Oklahoma, and my sister, brother-in-law and their boys are in Texas. I’m also close with extended family all over the country, but in Tennessee it’s just me and the cat!
Hobbies: Travel, hiking, singing, and research (I’m an architecture nerd)
Community Service: St. Luke’s Community House.
Best decision: Studying in Vienna my junior year in college. It was a life-changing experience for a small-town Iowa girl.
Worst decision: Too personal to share.
Toughest decision: Choosing to move to a city where I didn’t know anyone. I’ve done it 3 times now.
Best thing about job: The variety of tasks my job entails.
Worst thing about job: The variety of tasks my job entails.
Favorite thing in Nashville: Two things: great music and great people.
What would people be surprised to learn about you? I used to be a sculptor. Give me a welding torch and a large studio and I’ll have a great time making art.
Word that best describes you: Loyal (to a fault)
Goal yet to be achieved: Get a book published….not just an article, but a whole book.
Professional pet peeve: People who don’t understand why I don’t want to be a curator.
Who is your mentor and why? I have two: Dick Williams, the father of a childhood friend and my first drawing professor, showed me at an early age that you can actually make a living in the arts; and Linnea Wren, the only art historian at my college, where there was no art history department. She sent scores of students on to graduate studies in art history and careers in museums and academia.
Favorite Movie: Fight Club
Favorite Book: The Velvet Room introduced me at age 11 to issues of historic preservation. It is still one of my favorite books.


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