Kelly Johnson
About Kelly
Hi! I’m Kelly Johnson. I seek to guide humans on a journey to slow down and creatively reconnect with their natural world. I’m an artist, author, nature journaling guide, Montessorian, and children's garden educator dividing my time between Neptune Beach, Florida, and the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. I spends my days creating art, teaching nature journaling courses, and sparking wonder in nature with community children. I brings a lifetime of creative expression and gardening experience to each of my creative nature connection endeavors.
I believe everyone can draw and that every one has a green thumb - they just need to be set up for success. That’s why with Wings, Worms, and Wonder I aims to help and inspire humans to creatively connect with the natural right outside their doors through the arts and gardening. My grandparents taught me how to garden when I was a child, and I’ve been making art as long as I can remember, so when I became a Montessori teacher, I wanted to provide the same creative nature connection experiences for my students. After 10 years of gardening and nature journaling in a Montessori school and classroom setting, I decided to grow my focus and so the world of Wings, Worms, and Wonder was born!
Along the way, I began calling myself a “creative nature connection guide.” Much like an adventure guide, I help you discover your perfect path to nature inspired artistic success by meeting your needs as gardener, art journaler, or both in practical and creative processes based ways.
With a childhood grounded in nature and an adolescence focused on environmental and social responsibility, these experiences heavily influenced my life as a Montessori educator for peace and a creative nature connection guide. I draw from the work, philosophies, and methods of a host of progressive eductors and activists, but Montessori and the historic Nature-Study educators always take center stage.
I earned a BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 1998, with a major in photography and a minor in art history. Since graduating, I have created and exhibited my own fine art & craft in intimate settings. I received my Montessori 6-9 teaching certification from The American Montessori Society in 2004.
In 2012, I earned an MA with a concentration in Environmental Studies from Goddard College, and published my first book Wings, Worms, and Wonder: A Guide for Creatively Integrating Gardening and Outdoor Learning Into Children’s Lives.
I strive to inspire humans around the world to creatively connect with nature through my books, nature inspired items, online journaling classes, Wonder Wednesday blog, consultations, workshops, presentations, and children’s gardening and journaling classes.
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