Dindga McCannon grew up in Harlem and began her career studying under Harlem Renaissance artists such as Jacob Lawrence, Charles Alston, Richard Mayhew, and Al Loving at the Art Students League of New York and The Printmaking Workshop. She was an early member of Weusi Artist Collective, and later a co-founder of Where We At Black Women Artists with Kay Brown and Faith Ringgold. In 2022, she received the Blackburn Legacy Fellowship.
In this excerpt, Dindga reflects on how Blackburn provided Black artists with the space and opportunity to create prints. She also shares the story behind her 1972 print Musician and His Lady, inspired by jazz clubs.
