Chatroom: Dawn Okoro

CHATROOM

CHATROOM is an art conversation series funded by the City of Austin Community Initiatives Grant and produced in partnership with BossbabesATX.

The goal of CHATROOM is to facilitate warm dialogue between artists and the community with the belief that art communities thrive when there is healthy exchange between artists and audience because 1) artists are supported by engaged audiences/patrons and 2) communities are enriched by artists’ labor.

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Dawn Okoro

Nigerian American artist Dawn Okoro lives and works in Austin, Texas. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas, and her law degree from Texas Southern University. Her desire to become an artist spawned from her love of fashion illustration, photography, and design. Okoro’s work has been featured in Forbes, Drawing Magazine, and The Austin Chronicle. Her work has been shown at the Texas Biennial, New York University, Notre Dame University, Rice University Museum, George Washington Carver Museum, and MoCADA Museum in Brooklyn.

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This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.