About the Author
Linda Nelson Johnson is an associate professor in the School of Design at Arizona State University where she has taught in the decorative arts and interior design programs since 1985. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees from the interior design program in the College of Design at Iowa State University. Johnson is an accomplished designer and fiber artist, whose works have been exhibited around the country and published in Palimpsest, Surface Design Journal, and Fiberarts Design Book III. An expert in historic ornamentation-particularly stencil designs and techniques-she is the co-author of Iowa Capitol: A Harvest of Design (1989), which was one of two publications nominated for the Benjamin Shambaugh Award in 1990. She has presented papers on stencil design and restoration, computer-aided design and its implications for design pedagogy, and historic ornamentation around the country, and has served on numerous juries. In 1991, Johnson coordinated "The Natural Pattern of Structure" symposium and exhibition at ASU and contributed and article to Designer's West about Frank Lloyd Wright and his integral use of pattern.
