Dianne Zimbabwe
email: dzimbabweart@gmail.com
web site: diannezimbabwe.com
Born: New York City, 1952
Selected Exhibitions & Performances
Solo Exhibitions
- 2007 Dianne Zimbabwe Bogolanfini, RCC Library
"5 Kilometres", Resnikoff Gallery, RCC Media Arts
- 2005 “Bogolanfini”, French Library & Cultural Center,
- 2003 Dudley Branch Library,
- 2003/02 Star of Life Healing Center,
- “Happiness Is a Place Called Home”,
- 2002/01/00
- 1999 Boston/Cambridge Public libraries tour
Group Shows
2010 "Cambridge River Festival" Story Arts Tent, Cambridge, MA
2008/2009 "Keepers of the Tradition: Traditional Artists in Massachusetts", National Heritage Museum, Lexington, Massachusetts
2008/2009 "The Artist Voice", Roxbury Community College and the Massachusetts State House
2008 "Women of the Cloth", Bunker Hill Community College, Charlestown
2007 "Art of the State", Bunker Hill Community College, Charlestown, MA
"Capturing The Spirit of Roxbury", Boston Convention and Exhibition Center,
"First Night Retrospective" with Hawthorne Youth & Community Center
2007, 2006 Pen and Brush Gallery, New York City
2007, 2006, 2005 "Community Celebrations", Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
2008/2007/01/00/1999 Roxbury Open Studios
2006 “HANDS", with Sabriah Ahmad and Jennifer Erin Hughes, Joan Resnikoff Gallery
2003/2002 South End Open Studios,
2003/2000
2002/2001 “Vibrations”,
1993/92 Open Gallery,
Performances
2009 "Boston Greenfest & "The Golden Ratio", original fashions from the House of Ra;
2009 "Train Wrecked", a memoir by Michelle Gabow, directed by Michelle Baxter, Roxbury Reperatory Theatre
2006 "History in the
2001, 2000 Iwa Pele, experimental contemporary/traditional dance group
Commissions
First Night, Inc. Boston at Brookview House, Inc.: “Stability”, 2005,
“My Dream House”, 2004
"Jingling Snowflakes", 2008, "Once Upon a Book", 2007, "History In the
Corporate Collections
Brookview House, Inc., Roxbury/Dorchester,
Publications and Reviews
National Heritage Museum & Massachusetts Cultural Council, "Keepers of Tradition" catalog and interactive website, University of Massachusetts Press, 2008
American Art Collector, juried competition in print 2008, 2007, 2006
Awards and Honors
Madison Park Development Corporation, Professional Development Matching Grant, 2006/07
First Night, Inc., Project grants, 2005, 2004
Boston Cultural Council, artist grants, 2000, 1999
Lectures/Public-Speaking Engagements
2009-19 Through Barbed Wire, 4th Friday Poetry Readings
2007 WTCH-FM radio, "The Creative Mind of the Universe", guest artist and French/English translator with Mme. Dagnoko Nene Thiam, 30,August
2006 CBS-TV 4 news, First Night 2007 workshop coverage, 1 & 29 Dec.
2006 “Friends of the Dudley Library” & 2003 “Let’s Talk About Schools”,
Career-Related and Teaching Experience
- ESL Tutor / ESL Teacher, Haitian American Public Health Initiative (HAPHI), Best HTC, Clarendon Hill Towers, Independent Contractor
- Member of the Women's Caucus for the Arts
- UMass Boston, Urban Scholars after school enrichment program for bright & gifted middle & high school students
- Charlestown Community Center, Adult Education program, Teacher and tutor of Mathematics, Science and Writing
- Cambridge Artists' Cooperative Gallery, Sales Assistant, 2006 - 2010
- Hawthorne Youth/Community Center, Roxbury, Project Artist, "Fashion Flair" social justice teen arts pilot program, 2008; Literacy Coach, "Family Story Sharing Project", 2007/2008; Exploration Guide, 2006 - 2007, Artist-in-Residence, 2005 - 2009
- Organizer, hostess, French/English translator for 1 month residency and 3-workshop series by Malian master artist Mme. Dagnoko Nene Thiam in Boston, Massachusetts
- Pen and Brush Gallery, artist member, 2006 - 2008
- ACTRoxbury, artist member, 2006 - present
- Discover Roxbury, resident historian, 2006 - 2008
- Roxbury Community College Media Arts Center, theatre lighting technician/intern, 2007, stagehand, 2006/2010, Joan Resnikoff Gallery assistant curator 2005 - 2010, guest artist bogolan workshop Intro to Humanities, February, 2010
- Cirque du Soleil, "Corteo",
- Writers' Express (now Summer Ink), bogolan workshops,
- Boston Children’s Museum, bogolanfini workshops, 2005/2010
- Susan Bailis assisted-living residence, creative arts workshops, 2005
- Isabelle Stuart Gardner Museum/ Hawthorne Youth and Community Center partnership, “Community Celebrations” artist/educator, Boston, MA 2005 - 2008
- Brookview House, Inc. Transitional Housing Program, Artist-in-Residence, 2003 - 2006
- Boston Institute for Arts Therapy/Horizons, Art Specialist, 2003
- Massachusetts Office for Children certification, pre-school lead teacher, 1991
- Boston Public Library, various branches, drop-in creative arts workshops and programs,1984 - present
- Visual arts workshops,
Education
- Artist residency,
- Teaching Artist Institute,
- “Intersections Dankun” bogolan conference, lectures and workshops with Groupe Bogolan Kasobané of Mali, West Africa, International Gallery of Heritage and Culture at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 2003.
- Master artist AlFousseïny Kelly of
- Art and Music Department, B.A.,