Onyx Fine Arts Collective

Marita Dingus

Marita Dingus is a distinguished working and exhibiting artist and teacher. She was born in Seattle WA in 1956. She attended the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia (BFA, 1980) and San Jose State University (MFA, 1985).

In 1992, she received an NEA Travel Grant to attend the National Council for Black Studies, First International Conference in Accra, GHANA. Her numerous awards include 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).

Marita has had solo shows at the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter and The Stenersen Museum, both in Norway (2002, 2006), and the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA (2005/6). Her work has been included in Nature/Culture organized by The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh (2006-8).

Marita's work is in many regional museums and corporate collections and has been included in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC and 21st Century American Women Artists at the Residence of the United States Ambassador to NATO in Brussels, Belgium (2006-2010).

She has been represented by Francine Seders Gallery since 1991 and currently lives and works in Washington State.

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