Mad Props to Makeba
All month long Code Z will be continuing to highlight our stellar volunteers and staff.
Makeba G. Dixon-Hill has been serving as the Managing Editor at Code Z since September of 2006. We remember courting her for the position based on her thorough knowledge of art and her many contacts among arts writers. This turned out to come in handy as Makeba's job entails talking to Code Z writers day in and day out about all areas of visual culture.
Hard as it is to believe, Makeba also has a life outside of Code Z. Her days are spent as the Curatorial Assistant at the Spelman Museum of Fine Art, but that venture offers only a small sample of the avenues where she has channeled her talents and enthusiasm for the arts. From 2003 to 2006, for example, Makeba served as the Education and Public Programs Coordinator at the Studio Museum where she assisted in the development and implementation of adult programs.
After graduating with degrees in English and Art History from Spelman College in 2003, she participated in the first annual David C. Driskell Summer Arts Institute for the study of the arts in the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is also a freelance writer who has contributed to various visual and literary arts publications.
What's down the road for Makeba? She describes her commitment to goal setting as a continuous journey of what she wants to do both in the present and in the future. The next stage in her journey will soon take her to Chicago, to pursue her masters degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in Arts Adminstration.
We offer a hearty and heartfelt thank you to Makeba for all her hard work at Code Z!
4 May 2007