About

Born in New York City and raised in Harlem and the Bronx, Dindga McCannon came of age as an artist and young mother during the rise of feminist art in New York City and the civil rights movement across the nation. Dindga began her career studying under Harlem Renaissance artists such as Jacob Lawrence and Charles Alston at the Art Students League of New York and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. She went on to become a pillar of the influential African-American art collective Weusi, and later co-founded Where We At, a noteworthy Black women–only artist collective affiliated with the …