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with Dindga McCannon

The class will explore the magic of various mediums such as angelina, lutrador, tyvek and metals.

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At last there is an opportunity for UK-based fibernatics to attend a workshop given by Dindga McCannon. Plans are afoot to take advantage of Dindga’s fleeting presence in the UK in early October to set up this workshop.

Dindga McCannon was born and raised in Harlem where she was inspired to become an artist at the age of ten. She studied at the Art Students’ League and the City University of New York and had her first solo show when she was just 17 years old. From the 1960s she was also well-known for her wearable art. Her early adventures as a young Harlem artist are chronicled in two books that she wrote and illustrated: “Peaches” (Lothrop, Lee and Shepard) and “Wilhemina Jones, Future Star” (Dell Books) published in1975 and 1978.

Dindga Mccannon is a painter, author, printmaker, illustrator, muralist, teacher and currently a fiber artist. She works intuitively fusing her fine art “training” with the traditional women’s needlework taught to her by her mother and grandmother. She combines sewing ,beading, embroidery and quilting into ArtQuilts and has exhibited her work worldwide including at Harlem State Office Building Gallery, the Shromberg, Countee Cullen Library, Genesis 11 Museum in Harlem, American Craft Museum and the Smithsonian.

She co-founded the Black Women’s art collective, Where We At (1971 to 1997). Members of the collective included Faith Ringgold, Jerrilyn Crooks, and others.

Her work is in the collection of Johnson Publishing Publishing Co., Colgate- Palmolive Co. the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Shomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, Disney Productions (quilt “the Amazing Life of Althea Gibson” on permanent display at the ESPN Zone, 42nd St. and Bway NY.