About the Artist

Twenty-seven-year-old artist Di’Nnovati was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico and grew up as the second oldest and only girl in a single-mother family with four brothers. Although always artistic, she spent her childhood from infancy set on becoming a paleontologist, a dream that did not change until she fell in love with ceramics at the age of 15. In the aftermath of multiple abusive households and mental disorder diagnoses, she found the life-changing generosity of Albuquerque-based organizations Working Classroom and New Day Youth Shelter, and the amazing support of several teachers and mentors. It was at this time she coined the name Di’Nnovati, which alludes to her desire to achieve artistic innovation and comes from the Latin word for “renewal.”

After graduating from high school in 2015, she went to the University of New Mexico, where she met her husband and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a focus in bronze casting. In college she studied with acclaimed sculptor Constance Dejong, and was involved with the activism-based non-profit art studio Working Classroom, where she was fortunate to land paid internships helping to paint murals throughout Albuquerque.

After graduating college at the end of 2019, she and her husband moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where she worked at a bronze foundry through the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic; she then worked at a screen-printing studio, then at an art museum, all the while spending her free-time working on the wax negatives for her sculpture portfolio “Cycles of Fire.” At the end of 2022, Di’Nnovati and her husband bought their first home in small-town Ohio, and Di’Nnovati left the nine-to-five world to finish “Cycles of Fire” and start taking self-employment to the next level.

She spent a year-and-a-half revamping her social-media marketing, taking free-lance art contracts and commissions, and exploring ecommerce options; she then accepted employment as a print and marketing supervisor for a short time to invest in the overhead of building her own metal-working studio, manufacturing giclee prints of her paintings, creating a website, and casting her wax sculptures into.

She recently finished illustrating the book “The Art of Escape” by Albuquerque poet Trier Ward, published by Hercules Press; she is also painting her new acrylic “Botanical Portrait Series,” and working on the first piece in her second sculpture series, “Synesthesia in Music.” She also runs a hobby-sized plant shop on Mercari, EBay, and FB Marketplace, and is raising a family of two fur-babies and 200 houseplants with her husband.