ANNA DENNIS DIBBLE

"Anna Dibble's winsome world of imaginary climate-based landscapes speaks to people experiencing both vulnerability and resilience. We see them in boats on what she calls 'early oceans' and we see them walking alone with a dog in beautifully but perhaps wounded surroundings."

- Katherine Bradford, Untitled Juror

ANNA DENNIS DIBBLE

Anna Dibble’s paintings have been featured in solo, group, and invitational exhibitions in museums, cultural centers, and galleries for over forty years: Vermont, Maine, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Maryland.  Spaces include the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine and Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk, Maine, Carver Hill Gallery in Camden, Maine, Gallery B Gallery in Castine, Maine, George Marshall Store Gallery in York, Maine, Cynthia Winings Gallery in Blue Hill, Maine, Elizabeth Wilson Museum in Manchester, Vermont; the Sarah Doyle Gallery of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island; the Atrium Gallery of Bard College in Great Barrington, Massachusetts; the Strathmore Gallery in Bethesda, Maryland; Institute for Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art; the Helen Day Art Center in Stowe, Vermont, and the A.P.E. Gallery in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Dibble was a freelance writer, music composer, and co-designer for multiple animated shorts on Children’s Television Workshop’s Sesame Street. She has designed and created sets for opera and theater, taught workshops in both visual art and writing in Vermont and Maine schools. In the 1980s and 90s she worked in commercial and independent animation in Los Angeles – feature films, television specials, theatrical shorts : Disney, Marvel, Hanna Barbera, Murakami-Wolf, Don Bluth, among many others.

Primarily a self taught visual artist from a family of self taught professional artists, she studied at Parsons, New School, Boston Museum School, Vermont Studio Center, Pittsburg Art Institute, and from mentors: her father, Thomas Reilly Dibble, sculptor Lothar Wuerslin,  printmaker/sculptor George Nama, and painter Paul Stopforth.

In 2018 Dibble designed and launched a multi-year collaborative public art/ocean science initiative: The Gulf of Maine Ecology Arts Project, which focuses on the changes in biodiversity in the Gulf due to climate change and other human impact. The central piece – a large scale sculpture installation featuring an artist &  student-built Right whale, and other endangered marine animals made from recycled, re-purposed materials. First venue: Bigelow Laboratory of Ocean Science,  Boothbay, Maine – Summer/Fall  2021. Second Installation: ’SeaChange: Darkness & Light in the Gulf of Maine’ at Maine Maritime Museum in Bath, Maine: February 2023 through January 2024. Visit www.gulfofmaineecoarts.com for updates and information.

Anna Dibble