Ebony Iman Dallas

Artist Bio

Ebony Iman Dallas is a fifth-generation Oklahoman and second-generation Somali American. 

A multimedia artist, arts educator, and writer, Dallas was featured in the Roman Bearden Centennial Celebration in 2011. She was a participating artist in the the City of Tulsa's Greenwood Art Project commemorating the centennial anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Dallas‘s work has exhibited extensively in group and solo exhibitions and can be found in private collections in Namibia, Somaliland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Building on her MFA thesis at California College of the the Arts titled Painted Bridges, Dallas founded Afrikanation Artists Organization, based in Hargeisa, Somaliland, and Oklahoma City, to unify African-American, Afro-Caribbean, and continental African populations through art and design for community activism.

Ebony is a proud graduate of the Oklahoma Arts Council’s Leadership Arts program and ArtistINC.

Artist Work

Title: Freedom to Dream
Category: Visual Arts
Genre: Mural, Mosaic, Illustration
Description: Located inside the Willa D. Johnson Recreation Center in honor of its namesake, late councilwoman Ms. Willa D. Johnson, this 600 sq ft. ceramic tile mural was created in collaboration with co-lead artist and project manager Ebony Iman Dallas and co-lead artist Jarica Walsh, lead education artist Quiquia Calhoun and students at Douglass High School in Oklahoma City, OK.

Title: BLACKout: Madonna & Child
Category: Visual Arts
Genre: Collage, Painting
Description: 36” x 48” Carved Birchwood, Ghanaian textiles, wood stain, acrylic, golden leafing

Title: Greenwood Imagine
Category: Visual Arts
Genre: Mural, Mosaic, Collage
Description: 4, 4’ x 8’ Panels Carved wood, Ghanaian and Kenyan textiles, acrylic, magnets

Location

 74127