Rita Dibert is a multi-media artist who since 1995 has headed Photography at the Quay School of Fine Art Whanganui. She holds an MFA in Photo Applications to Painting and Printmaking and one in Contemporary Theory and Media. Her past includes doing radio voice overs, summer theatre and operettas, marching at Montgomery, colouring Easter eggs and refinishing furniture. Rita’s father, a basement inventor, was a firm believer in negative ions and invented the turn signal for general Motors. Her Grandmother was a suffragette and on the Underground Railroad.

email: rjdibert@paradise.net.nz