Johnny McCaffrey (they/them) is a Queer and Trans woodworker and sculptural artist from Olympia, WA. Their work focuses on themes of reclamation, reinvention, and playful curiosity, both conceptually and materially. Craft and art-making have been throughlines in all areas of their life—haling from a familial lineage of makers to working as an art installer and handler and home builder and remodeler. Johnny has forged a non-traditional path in their career and will continue to engage with making through channels of education that honor alternative ways of learning.

Their work is constantly engaging with the line(s) between sculptural and functional. They love the tension created between the viewer and useless functional objects. They also love the satisfaction of sensually engaging functional and non-functional objects that make it nearly impossible to not touch, use, or physically engage with. Tension and the ways we apprehend it, navigate it, contend with it are not only part of their practice but of their lived experiences in the world as a queer, trans person. 

Reclamation of material, history, place, and stories play a vital role in their making. Reclaimed materials often inform the form of the work in concert with narratives and curiosities they wrestle with.