Today my first Art Car goes on exhibition at the Outsider Art Fair! Curated by the Bronx Museum and created using a car from the WayPoint driving school she sits outside the fair. Her title is “Ode to the Bronx”. It took weeks to create! I couldn’t have done it without the help of my artist son Harmarkhis and the wonderful technical advice from Nancy Josephson ( who is an amazing artist and has made ten incredible art cars) The basic design is created from a crazy quilt pattern that I designed especially for the car. At the Metropolitan Pavilion 125 West 18 th St. Thursday March 19 th through March 22.
👋🏼 25th Biennale Artist Profile 👀 Dindga McCannon (USA)
Born and raised in Harlem, McCannon emerged as a self-taught artist and young mother amid the civil rights movement and the rise of feminist art. She became a leading figure in an alternative African American art ecosystem, co-founding the Weusi collective and Where We At: Black Women Artists, the first collective dedicated to African American women artists. Informally trained by Harlem Renaissance artists such as Jacob Lawrence and Charles Alston, McCannon later turned to quilting, drawing on family traditions of sewing and crochet. Her mixed-media paintings, quilts, and works on paper centre the lives of women—iconic figures, unsung heroines, and members of her Harlem community. By merging fine art with practices historically dismissed as “women’s work,” McCannon forged a groundbreaking practice whose influence continues to resonate across generations.
Learn more about the 25th Biennale of Sydney, Rememory, via the link in bio.
Image credits:
Photograph: Fridman Gallery. Courtesy of the artist and Fridman Gallery.
Dindga McCannon, Charlie Parker and Many of the Musicians He Influenced, 2010 (painting from 1970’s), Mixed media quilt, 54 x 44 inch. Photograph: Adam Reich. Courtesy of the artist, Fridman Gallery, and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery.
Dindga McCannon, Pat is pregnant, 1977, Acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 30 x 22 x 1 inch. Photograph: Adam Reich. Courtesy of the artist and Fridman Gallery, New York, New York.
Dindga McCannon, Why Did it Take So Long? (Black women in Aviation), 2012, mixed media on canvas, 59 x 59 inches. Photographer: Adam Reich. Courtesy of the artist, Fridman Gallery, and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery.
We are honored to announce 𝐃𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐠𝐚 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐧 ( @dindga )’s participation in this year’s 𝐁𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐲𝐝𝐧𝐞y. Running from March 14–June 14, 𝘙𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺, explores the intersection of memory and history, centering untold stories.
The artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery will open in September 2026.
Dindga McCannon grew up in Harlem and began her career studying with Harlem Renaissance artists at the Arts Students League of New York and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Se went on to become a pillar of the African-American art collective Weusi and later a co-founder (with Faith Ringgold) of Where We At, Black Women Artists Inc.
𝑨 𝒑𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒊𝒙𝒆𝒅-𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕’𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒃𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒔𝒆𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒄𝒖𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏 — 𝒊𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒄 𝒑𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔, 𝒖𝒏𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔, 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒚, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒗𝒊𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆.
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McCannon’s works are in the public collections of The National Gallery of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Hirshhorn Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, The Phillips Collection, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, among others. She has participated in major traveling museum exhibitions, including Afro-Atlantic Histories at the National Gallery of Art, Pablo-Matic and We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-1985 at the Brooklyn Museum; and Black Power at the National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN.
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Dindga McCannon, Threads of the Past, Inspiration for the Future, 2000, Mixed Media quilt, 55 x 55 in.
Portrait of Dindga McCannon, courtesy of the Artist.
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Yesterday’s Stop-Action Animation workshop by WEUSI members, Dindga McCannon and Harmarkhis McCannon @harmarkhis We were happy to see @brosis512 members joined! Thank you instructors and participants! We can not wait to see the completed video clip!
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The CAC gallery is open today! Three more weekends to catch the Reflections of WEUSI exhibition. Next special event is scheduled on May 24 at Hamilton Landmark Galleries.
#stopactionanimation #weusi #reflectionsofweusi @dindga
