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Bio
Keetra Dean Dixon was born in Anchorage, AK, in 1977. Dixon has a B.F.A. in design from the Minneapolis College of Art + Design, MN, and she graduated with a M.F.A. from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, MI, in 2006.

Education
Following her studies at MCAD, Dixon went on to study at the Cranbrook Academy of Art

Career
Keetra Dean Dixon's hybrid background often leads her design work towards speculative terrain, leveraging emergent technologies and process-focused making. She has been working as an art director in New York City. Dixon’s work has been recognized broadly including in the permanent design collection at SFMOMA and the honorable ranking of ADC Young Gun (Art Director’s Cub) in 2008. She completed commissions for the 2009 U.S. presidential inauguration and the 2012 olympic games, has shown at the Walker Art Center and the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. In 2017, she been named one of the “Educators To Watch” by Graphic Design USA.

Select Awards
2015   Judge for AIGA AK, The Big One Design Awards, Anchorage, AK 2012    ADC Young Guns 10 Judge 2011   Core77 Design Awards, Interiors / Exhibits + Interactive / Web 2011   IdN Most Wanted Creative 2009   STEP Inside Design, Top 25 2009   Emerging Talent 2009 QBN, Editors Choice

Select Awards
2009   Krop Creative, Sponsorship 2009 2009   D&AD Pencil, Environmental Design 2008   The Art Directors Club, Young Gun 6 2008   Invitation to Print Magazines, 20 under 30 2005   Presidential Teaching Award 2000   Work in the permanent collection at SFMOMA