A Play for Voices; Move Your Body A-Round

Dianna Settles is a Vietnamese American artist, musician, and gallerist whose work focuses on everyday, commonplace settings to counter fetishized and passive images of women of color. Settles grew up in rural North Georgia and began making art with a realistic aesthetic. A trip to her father’s homeland of Vietnam helped Settles realize that she wanted to portray people who resemble her. She then developed the brightly colored Asian figures common in her work today. Settles operates Hi-Lo Gallery in midtown, Atlanta.