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Arts Division
Art Department
MFA Graduate / Teaching Assistant
Environmental art and social practice
Graduate
UC Santa Cruz Westside Research Park
By appointment
Art Department
Dima is a Lebanese artist, activist, and educator currently based in Santa Cruz. Through performance, film, and immersive experiences, her work is often collaborative, shape-shifting and practicing art's capacity to uplift, weave relationships and lines of solidarity that cultivate a collective imagination for a more intuitive, heartful world. Prior to begining the Environmental Art and Social Practice program, she was co-creating street performances and interventions with Zayraqoun collective, leading community art programs with Catalytic Action design Studio, teaching at Horshna forest school, and beginning her land based research with the Museum for the Displaced.
Dima received a BFA in Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins, London and an M.ED in Art in Education from Harvard.
2024- UCSC Norris Center Art & Science Fellowship
2024- Thorton Education Trust’s Inspire Future Generations Award for Child Centered Initiatives
2022- Urgent Action Fund Grantee for Reforestation project
2020- Mophradat Self Organization Grantee for Horshna Forest School Project
2015- Beirut, Bodies in Public, grantee
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