Carol Nipomnich Dixon is best known for her color photography and small-scaled embroidered collages, which combined traditional and contemporary techniques, materials, and concepts influenced by a variety of the world's cultures.

A resident of Old Greenwich, she is on the faculty of Greenwich Academy, where she chaired the History Department for sixteen years and the Arts Department prior to that for five years. Among the current courses she teaches at the academy are Advanced Placement Art History and an Architecture seminar. She has also taught studio art courses there and at the Stamford Museum. Her education includes an M.A. in history from Columbia University and a B.A. from Vassar College, Phi Beta Kappa, as well as painting and drawing courses at the Brooklyn Museum Art School and Pratt Institute.

She has served as guest lecturer, workshop leader, curator, and juror for area art and educational organizations. She was on the Board of Directors of Vassar's Friends of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center and is an artist member of the Silvermine Guild of Arts, where she was a Trustee for six years. She is a Past President and is currently on the Advisory Board of the Greenwich Art Society. Her other memberships include the Connecticut Women Artists, the National League of American Penwomen, the Society of Connecticut Craftsmen, the Education Committee of the Bruce Museum, the Art Society of Old Greenwich, and the Stamford Art Association.

Her art has appeared in local, state, and national juried and invitational exhibitions, such as the Art of the Northeast, the Faber Birren National Color Award Exhibition, New Art Annual, Hartford Art Project in the Government Galleries, and KPF Gallery in New York City. She has received numerous awards over the years including a Photography Award at the Greenwich YWCA Gertrude White Gallery in 2002, a Special Award of Merit at the Stamford Art Association in January of 2001, First Prize at the Stamford Art Association in December of 2000, First Prize at the Art Society of Old Greenwich's Winter Art Festival in January of 2002, the Marjory Glassburn Francis Memorial Award at the Stamford Museum's New Art Annual '96, First Prize at the Island Beach Art Festival in 1999, and the Judge's Choice Award at the Greenwich Art Society's Annual Juried Exhibition in both 1998 and 1999. In the past two years, her color photographs and embroidered collages were selected for inclusion in Juried Exhibitions held at the Bendheim Gallery of the Greenwich Arts Center and the Flinn Gallery of the Greenwich Library. She has had seventeen one-artist exhibitions. Her works are included in many corporate and private collections here and abroad.

Artist's Statement:

Tempted to use Frank Stella's description of his art, "What you see is what you see, " as a way to describe my own art, I will nevertheless share some personal views about my work. I create art because I love to do it, even when struggles are involved. I have been drawing, painting, sculpting, taking photographs and experimenting with mixed media since I was a child. I like to think that the child in me still appears in the art I do, along with more experienced "soul", feeling, intelligence, and often wit, expressed in large part through color, texture, shape, and composition. While I have become best known for my small-scaled embroidered collages and assemblages, I have recently begun to achieve success with my color photographs. Juxtaposing the old with the new has been a frequent theme of mine, often focusing on contemporary objects in time-worn environments.