Megan Johnson

  Shine Camp is an on-going project that is my biggest to date. This camp project was started in 2015 for homeschooled youth in the state of Utah who participate in the performing arts. Many performing arts groups of this sort are already available to homeschooling youth and I wanted to create an end-of-year experience to help youth come together and showcase their creations. Directors can sign their casts up for this 2-3 day camp held annually in May. 2 "camp counselors" are chosen from each cast to help plan and execute the camp with leadership positions. Each cast is given a time slot during the camp to perform their show for the rest of the camp. They bring their set, costumes, props and actors up to camp to put on an outdoor performance.  When actors are not performing or cheering on another cast, there are workshops, group devotionals, acting lessons, service projects, meals, hikes, crafts, and more to keep them occupied. Each cast is split up into different "teams...

 This last December, I took on the project of a "Nativity Show" for a local assisted living center. I wanted to share some Christmas spirit/joy with those who might be feeling lonely. I also wanted to use this as a way to gather community members in a simple way. So many have nativity sets that mean a lot to them and they have a beautiful story behind them.  I spent a lot of time gathering nativity sets from around the community, gathering and inviting residents from the assisted living center and researching each of the sets and where they came from. I enjoyed hearing the stories of these nativities, especially the ones that we homemade. Seeing the nativity sets come together in one place brought a very special feeling to the facility.  We were able to gather 92 nativity sets, many from around the world. It was amazing to see the joy in their faces as they saw the beautiful creations of the nativity scene. Community members stayed at the event and visited with the reside...

 The summer of 2021 was exciting for me. My dad worked at TraskBritt, a law firm in Salt Lake City. His boss was going to hire me to re-do their whole file organization system. They had rooms and rooms full of files. Each file was for a different case, full of the attorney's correspondence and blueprint and notes. It was a daunting task, but I was up for the challenge. It took me the whole summer, working full time, but I did it! We started with clearing out some of the rooms and cleaning. Then we'd put the files we wanted back in, on the correct shelves. Every file had to be scanned into the system too and recorded where it was going. I went room by room, and assistants came and went. Moving the files was hard physical work and scanning and organizing was hard mental work. But by the end of the summer, the files were perfectly in place. I wish I had more media examples of the work I put into the project, however its all classified and no pictures were taken.