Nicole Dixon was born in Oakland, CA, and in 2002 received a BA in Studio Art at Spelman College in Atlanta, GA. As a practicing artist her exhibition history spans nearly three decades and both coasts- including the Bay Area, Atlanta, Miami, and D.C. She teaches art to youth and adults alike, which has taken her as far as the Kalahari as a guest art instructor. As an art administrator she has coordinated a dozen solo shows, curated an exhibition at Oakland’s Joyce Gordon Gallery, and juried a national visual arts award competition.

She has also managed community engagement programs for a number of exhibitions, including a workshop series for San Francisco’s The Black Woman Is God art show. Since 2010, she has coordinated monthly and seasonal family art projects for the Museum Of the African Diaspora- designing and facilitating art activities for hundreds of museum visitors of all ages. As the artist in residence for Chromatic Black, an interdisciplinary artist’s collective in D.C., she developed screening and discussion guides for a Fannie Lou Hamer short film during their Oscar shortlist campaign, and created a traveling art exhibition for community engagement around their upcoming Ida B Wells docuseries. Because she believes art, education, and social justice go hand in hand, she has also taught full time in the classroom since 2005. As an educator, she served for a decade on her school’s non-profit Board of Directors, and develops social justice and liberatory curriculum materials that promote positive identity and empowerment.

Dixon uses her skills as a practicing artist, educator, and administrator for self-actualization, community empowerment, bridge-building, and positive social change.

Nicole Dixon’s work will be on display in the Freight lobby through May 2026.

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