Johnny McCaffrey is a woodworker and sculptural artist from Olympia, Washington now living in Kansas City, Missouri where he grew up.

The Midwest Prairie has greatly influenced the ways Johnny conceptualizes objects in space and helped foster his reverence for wood that is his primary vehicle for creative expression. With these formative midwestern influences and coming to age in the post grunge subculture of the Pacific Northwest, Johnny found a home within the themes of reclamation, reinvention, and playful curiosity, both conceptually and materially. Reclamation of material, history, place, and stories also play a vital role in his process while contending with the tension between the sculptural and functional object making. Johnny looks for ways to engage viewers with his work through materiality while subtly (and not so subtly) employing conceptual themes that question the systems we struggle with and seek to find justice in. Tension and the ways we apprehend it are not only part of his practice, but his life experience navigating the world as a queer, trans person.