Guy Johnson

Guy Johnson is a poet and author who is best known as the son of Maya Angelou. He was introduced to creative work very early in life as his mother had prints from the likes of Toulouse-Lautrec, Catlett, Charles White, Monet, Guauguin, Degas, Picasso, Samella Lewis and Van Gogh hanging on their walls. Angelou believed that exposure to creativity an art in a person’s life broadened their perspectives on life and the world they lived in. While he had a very creative mother who wanted to see him become a creative person, he spent much of his childhood unsuccessfully tying to ignore whatever he was taught. For most of his childhood, the art on the walls was irrelevant to the young Guy Johnson.