Dindga McCannon

Dindga McCannon (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la silimiin goli July biɛɣ'pihita ni yini dali yuuni 1947) nyɛla African-American nucheeni baŋda, karimba, buku sabira n-ti pahi "illustrator". O nyɛla ŋun daa sɔŋ ka bɛ piligi Where We At, Black Women Artists yuuni 1971.

Artworks
McCannon nyɛla ŋun mali (titled "Yekk's Song") ka di be Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.Black Threads: An African American Quilting Sourcebook by Kyra E. Hicks, page 158. Silimiin goli January yuuni 2020, McCannon's oil painting "The Last Farewell" nyɛla bɛ ni daa kuhi shɛli $161,000 ka di nyɛ din daa pahi Johnson Publishing Company's laɣa pooli. Lala tuma ŋɔ nyɛla din daa pahi bɛ "private collection",  di shɛŋa nyɛ Henry Ossawa Tanner mini Carrie Mae Weems tumanima. 

McCannon nyɛla ŋun daa di alizama zaŋ jandi Statue of Liberty figure. Di nyɛla din be "permanent collection" zaŋ n-ti Brooklyn Museum.

Commissions
1985: United Community, 50 ft by 6 stories, 25 Furman Ave, Brooklyn, NY, Dept of Cultural Affairs
2000: Amazing Life of Althea Gibson, 60 inches by 120 inches art story quilt, Disney Inc for ESPN Zone, 42nd Street and Brady, NYC
2001: Winning the Vote, Art Quilt on the Pioneers of Women's voting history America, Scholastic Magazine
2008: Zora Neale Hurston, B.O.S.S. (Barnard Organization of Soul Sisters), Columbia University, NY

Notable works in public collections

Mercedes (1971), Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Revolutionary Sister (1971), Brooklyn Museum, New York
Empress Akweke (1975), Brooklyn Museum, New York
West Indian Day Parade (1976), Brooklyn Museum, New York
Woman #1 (1975-1977), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Badass Women Who Inspire Me to Soar (2006), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Charlie Parker and Some of the Amazing Musicians He Influenced (1983/2010), The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
A Week in the Life of a Black Woman Artist (2013), Brooklyn Museum, New York

Awards
2023 – Anonymous Was A Woman (AWAW) - Individual Artist Grant
2005 – N. Y. F. A. Fellowship – Crafts
2007 – Urban Artists Initiative, Harlem Arts Alliance
2008 – Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance – Individual Artists Grant 2009 – Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance – Individual Artist Grant

 Memberships 
McCannon nyɛla ŋun daa be Weusi mini Where We At (black woman's collective din daa niŋ yuuni 1970s).

Further reading

 Kundivihira 

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Category:1947 births
Category:Living people
Category:20th-century African-American artists
Category:20th-century African-American women
Category:20th-century American textile artists
Category:20th-century American women textile artists
Category:21st-century African-American artists
Category:21st-century African-American women
Category:21st-century American textile artists
Category:21st-century American women textile artists
Category:African-American women artists
Category:Artists from Manhattan
Category:People from Harlem
Category:American quilters
Category:Textile artists from New York (state)