ANNA DIBBLE’s paintings have been featured in solo, group, and invitational exhibitions in museums, galleries, and cultural centers for fifty years: Spaces include the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine; George Marshall Store Gallery,York, Maine; Cynthia Winings Gallery, Blue Hill, Maine; Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine; Sidlehouse Gallery, Freeport, Maine; Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont; Elizabeth Wilson Museum, Manchester, Vermont; Sarah Doyle Gallery of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; Atrium Gallery of Bard College, Great Barrington, Massachusetts; Strathmore Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland; Institute for Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art&Design, Portland, Maine; A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts. Dibble’s work is in private collections all over the United States.
Dibble is the Founding Director of ‘Gulf of Maine EcoArts’, a project-based artist collaborative. From 2018 to the present time, she curated, co-designed, and raised funds for two large-scale art installations: ‘Majestic Fragility’, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, Maine: September 2021 – January 2023. ‘SeaChange: Darkness & Light in the Gulf of Maine’, Maine Maritime Museum, Bath, Maine: February 2023 – March 2024. In March 2024 the exhibition was moved to ‘Wabanaki Public Health & Wellness’ in Bangor, Maine, where it will become part of a permanent tribal exhibition/arts and education center devoted to the Penobscot River basin.
Past work: 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. Dibble studied at Parsons, New School, Boston Museum School, Vermont Studio Center, Pittsburg Art Institute, and with mentors: her landscape artist father, Thomas Reilly Dibble, Vermont sculptor Lothar Wuerslin, Pittsburgh printmaker/sculptor George Nama, and South African/Massachusetts painter Paul Stopforth.