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The Johnson Center for the Arts will host a dual artists’ reception from 5 until 7 p.m. on September 12 for Mary H. Johnson, a highly recognized and acclaimed Troy artist, and Chintia Kirana, the founder of ArtHouse, an artist-run arts residency as well as co-founder of “Montgomery Arts Projects, (MAP).

Through MAP, Kirana has created numerous community art projects, including the “Inside Out Project. “

Chintia Kirana has participated in the Little Amal Walk with Amal US Tour project in Montgomery as the artistic director for her project called “Some Broken Things Can Be Mended.”

Little Amal is an 11-foot manually operated, partly-animatronic giant puppet and is the centerpiece of the performance art project called “The Walk.”

With the intention of celebrating human migration and cultural diversity, the puppet initially journeyed for five months from the Syria-Turkey border via Europe to the United Kingdom.