Mutópe’s educational background includes a MFA degree from the UW-Milwaukee, Peck School of the Arts, a BFA degree from the UW-Whitewater – Art & Design Department. Mutópe is a Milwaukee based visual artist, who’s body of work is best known for themes directly related to celebrating African American History and Culture. Works often poetically created in blue cast. Mutope’s fascination with indigo pigment connects centuries of symbolic meaning, a type of iconic visual code recognized within the African American visual arts vernacular. Johnson’s’ work is widely collected and have been included in exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum’s Dave Project Gallery permanent collection, the Trout Museum, UMASS Augusta Savage Art Gallery, Northwestern Mutual Foundation Giving Gallery, MSOE’s Kern Center, the Charles Allis Fine Arts Museum, Charles A. Wustum Fine Arts Museum, the Overture Center for the Arts, the Juxtaposition Gallery Minneapolis, MN, Susan Woodson’s Gallery Chicago, and a long list of others.