Best Local Arts Administrator David Hoyt Johnson
Tucson/Pima Arts Council STAFF PICK: Gentlemanly David Johnson has a tough
job overseeing the public art program for the city and county,
but he calmly and ably negotiates the inevitable crossfire between
politicians and artists. Knowledgeable and hard-working, Johnson
is careful to put every single project, from bus stop to art bridge,
through a rigorous series of public meetings. Obviously artists--and
the public--don't always agree with the final choices that the
selection panels make; but complaints against Johnson are almost
non-existent. Artists who do get the commissions praise him for
his insistence on giving artists due public credit; and artists
who don't get the commissions praise him for his helpful post-mortems
on their presentations. And he gets high marks from all for his
ethics.
