{"id":1127,"date":"2022-07-15T21:08:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T21:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live.amp.events\/seattle-23\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2023-07-21T15:14:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T15:14:56","slug":"inye-wokoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/live.amp.events\/seattle-23\/inye-wokoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Marita Dingus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"mobfm-light mb-3\"><em>Where The Castoffs Grow Materials, <\/em>2022-2023<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-0\">Plastic bags, wine cork covers, plastics of all kinds, wire<br \/>\n15 ft x 15 ft<br \/>\nPresented by Traver Gallery, Booth B07<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cI consider myself an African-American Feminist and environmental artist. My approach to producing art is environmentally and politically infused: neither waste humanity nor the gifts of nature. I am primarily a mixed media sculptor who uses discarded materials. My art draws upon relics from the African Diaspora. The discarded materials represent how people of African descent were used during the institution of slavery and colonialism then discarded, but who found ways to repurpose themselves and thrive in a hostile world. I seek to use recovered materials, reconfiguring and incorporating them into pieces of art where possible and appropriate, and to mitigate waste and pollution in all my work. This is a creative challenge, but a commitment I incorporate into my professional and personal activities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Born Seattle, WA 1956, Dingus attended Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia (BFA, 1980) and San Jose State University (MFA, 1985). She has received a Visual Art Fellowship from Artist Trust (1994), a John S. Guggenheim Fellowship (1999), and the Morrie and Joan Alhadeff PONCHO Artist of the Year Award (2005).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Dingus has had solo shows at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter and The Stenersen Museum, both in Norway (2002, 2006), as well as the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA (2005 \u2013 2006). Her work has been included in Nature\/Culture organized by The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh (2006 \u2013 2008), Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC (2006 \u2013 2007) and 21st Century American Women Artists at the Residence of the United States Ambassador to NATO in Brussels, Belgium (2006 \u2013 2010). Her work is in many regional museums and corporate collections. Dingus currently lives and works in the state of Washington and is represented by Traver Gallery in Seattle.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>Image credits: Meron Menghistab for Crosscut<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where The Castoffs Grow Materials, 2022-2023 Plastic bags, wine cork covers, plastics of all kinds, wire 15 ft x 15 ft Presented by Traver Gallery, Booth B07 \u201cI consider myself an African-American Feminist and environmental artist. My approach to producing art is environmentally and politically infused: neither waste humanity nor the gifts of nature. I &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/live.amp.events\/seattle-23\/inye-wokoma\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marita Dingus<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/live.amp.events\/seattle-23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/live.amp.events\/seattle-23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/live.amp.events\/seattle-23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live.amp.events\/seattle-23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live.amp.events\/seattle-23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/live.amp.events\/seattle-23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1218,"href":"https:\/\/live.amp.events\/seattle-23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions\/1218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live.amp.events\/seattle-23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/live.amp.events\/seattle-23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live.amp.events\/seattle-23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live.amp.events\/seattle-23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}