AT&T presents Makers in Their Spaces is an online offering in which MMA’s virtual participants are invited into the creative space – physical, mental, social, or otherwise – of a maker, thereby giving them unique insight into how that particular artist draws inspiration from their surroundings during this time.
Join us Saturday, September 25 at 10 AM, on Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube, as 2021 Mississippi Invitational artist, Nicole Dikon, takes us on a virtual tour of her studio. Viewers will learn more about her process with collage and woodcuts and see current works in progress.
On Monday, September 27 at 6 PM, join us on Instagram live, as we host an interactive discussion with Nicole. We will learn more about her work and favorite pieces to date.
About the Maker
Nicole Dikon (b.1989) lives and works between Oahu & Mississippi, making woodcut prints, installing edible and native gardens, writing poetry, and making artist books. Her practice expands beyond the aforementioned list, but ultimately is a means of grounding her perspective in the principles of ecology. In 2014, Dikon earned a BFA in painting at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, and an MFA in printmaking in 2017 from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. Her work has been collected by institutions such as The Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art, The Center for Rare Books at Temple University, Kapiolani Medical Center, Sheraton Waikiki Hotel and The Wagner Free Institute of Science. She was born on Maui and was raised all over the Americas. As she continues to follow a nomadic path, she grounds her art practice in whatever environment she is placed. The key to her process lies in her attempt to mimic the cycles of a natural ecosystem. Everything in the studio has a value, from the scraped-up ink to the paper scraps, they all have a function that is considered and reused in the system several times before they are reused again in the waste pile for rebirth. In doing so, each image, object, and place that is created, serves as a portal to a right relationship with the natural world, one where we acknowledge our connectedness not through an intelligent knowing, but a visceral and intuitive awareness.
