Joseph Dixon
Musical and Visual Arts | Performance and Instruction
Joseph Dixon has over 30 years of experience providing art services, with a focus on art for education, art for your home, and art for community outreach. Dixon has conducted over a thousand workshops, residencies, and performances throughout Texas through collaborative partnerships with schools and organizations.
Dixon serves as a teaching artist for various non-profit art organizations, including The River Performing and Visual Arts Center, Katy ARTreach, Young Audiences of Houston, and Young Audiences of Southeast Texas. He also serves as the art instructor for Avondale House, working to implement a fine arts program that provides interventional music activities and visual art projects designed for students with Autism and disabilities that will support the growth of communication and social skills, encourage fine and gross motor development and life skill improvements.
From 2008 -12, he served as Program Manager for Young Audiences of Houston’s Community Services, which provided art programming for at-risk youth in detention and residential treatment facilities, children with disabilities, and youth cancer patients at Texas Children’s Cancer Center. The customized program Music 4 Everyone was designed and implemented at schools in Houston and Pasadena. In addition, he conducted a 6-year artist residency at Gardens Elementary that not only provided music programming and performance opportunities at sites like The House of Blues and Discovery Green but led to a two-year partnership with Pomeroy Elementary, also located in Pasadena ISD.
Dixon’s visual art includes a body of work with over 300 originals works created and a series titled “Faces of Autism,” which includes more than 75 works. The series in pencil and acrylic features images of students with special needs, individuals involved in innovative research, and the arts and portraits of families and friends with children with Autism, including his son. This ongoing work in progress is an effort to promote awareness of individuals living with Autism and other related learning and physical developmental challenges.
Dixon’s work also includes countless numbers of workshops, exhibitions, and performances. He has played percussions with Kuumba House Dance Theater, MEDIA, Second Generation Dance Company, the South African formed group SECHABA that performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., and several seasons in the Ensemble Theater’s production of Black Nativity. He has also served on the Artist Advisory Board for Diverseworks and grant review committees for the Houston Arts Alliance, United Way, and the Texas Commission on the Arts. You are invited to view project photos and clips on Facebook at www.facebook.com/DYoungArtistsEnsemble and work samples and performance clips at www.youtube.com/dixonsart.
