Dindga McCannon
Dindga McCannon has spent the last 55 years as a fiber artist, painter, printmaker, muralist, writer, wearable art maker and illustrator of books for young adults. She is one of the founding members of Where We At, Black Women Artists,1971 and a lifelong member of Weusi Artist Collective, two important groups of the early Black Arts movement in NY. She has had 3 recent one woman shows including "In Plain Sight" Fridman gallery NY.2021.Her work is in numerous museums collections including the Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney Museum, the Woodmere Museum,Phillips Collection and the American Folk Art Museum. Originally from Harlem, she now lives and work in Philadelphia.
Awarded Grants
2023
Art and Change Grant (ACG)
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Overview
Dingda McCannon’s project, Creating Art from Philadelphia Memorabilia 1920-70: The Women in Our Communities, will involve a series of 4-hour workshops offered for free to a group of seniors, most of whom are African-American and have some knowledge of quilting. Using discarded photos, tickets, paper bills, dolls of color, small quilts, collages, and newspaper clippings to create artist's books, Dingda will share and teach techniques using some new age materials, antique fabrics, painting, sewing, and photo printing to preserve bits of their individual and shared history before it is lost or, as she writes, “laying forgotten in a corner of a drawer.”