Thelma Johnson Streat was an important WPA artist who earned international fame for her visual and performance art. Johnson was born in Yakima, Washington on August 29, 1912. She exhibited a natural ability in the arts at an early age, and by seven, she was painting. After graduating from Washington High School in Portland in […]

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