Creating that which remains
Culture is not inherited. It is made, remade, and fought for.
The artist
biography
Wanita Dixon is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose practice spans welded steel sculpture, mixed-media painting, and community-rooted creative education. Her work draws from the deep well of Black American experience, excavating memory, ancestral knowledge, and the cultural inheritance that shapes identity across generations.
Dixon's sculptures are built from reclaimed and raw steel, a material chosen for its strength, history, and capacity to hold form under pressure. Her paintings on canvas and panel extend this investigation into color and surface, layering paint the way that memory layers meaning: imperfectly, insistently, beautifully.
She is the founder of Paint Your Culture, a creative platform dedicated to the belief that art-making is an act of cultural preservation and that every person carries a story worth telling in form, color, and material.
My studio is where I argue with materials and sometimes win.
Dixon works across two disciplines simultaneously, treating each as a different grammar for the same language. Steel demands patience and physical commitment; painting demands surrender. Together they produce a body of work that is both monumental and intimate.
Her studio practice is research-driven: archival photographs, oral histories, and material culture inform each series. A sculpture may begin as a response to a photograph from the 1920s; a painting may emerge from a conversation with an elder. The work is always in dialogue with something that came before.
- Community ArtRiviera Beach Marina, Riviera Beach, Florida2026
- MusterionBoynton Beach Arts & Cultural Center, Boynton Beach, Florida2026
- VIP Members' ShowHelen Salzberg Gallery, Palm Beach State College, Florida2026
- The VoidStudio 1608, West Palm Beach, Florida2026
- Big & Bold IICar Team USA, Stuart, Florida2025
- Art in the AlleyMurals in neighborhoods, Delray Beach, Florida2025
- Inaugural Public Arts ProgramCity Hall Building, Oxford, North Carolina2025
- Spectrum MiamiMana Wynwood, Miami, Florida2025
- Art Is HealingChildren's Services Council, Boynton Beach, FLFacilitated a retreat for nonprofit professionals and caregivers, integrating music therapy and journaling rooted in neuroarts to support self-care and prevent burnout.2026, 2024
- Paint Your CultureChildren's Services Council, Boynton Beach, FLLed a hands-on workshop introducing youth to painting and sketching as tools for cultural expression, community building, and belonging.2024
- The Art of Being YOUAlpert Jewish Family Services, Palm Beach Gardens, FLDesigned and produced an inclusive fashion experience for neurodiverse clients that included personal styling, upcycled fashion, and storytelling through fashion and art, culminating in a fashion show fundraiser at Ballenisles Country Club.2026
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