ZCCD
ZIMBABWE CULTURAL CENTRE IN DETROIT’Smission is to educate, archive, & promote the arts & culture of Zimbabwe. We continuously strive to encourage strong ties between culture-producers & residents in Zimbabwe, Detroit, & abroad, acting as catalysts for critical artistic production as well as cultural exchange between communities.
COMRADES /
CHIDO JOHNSON
LEADERSHIP / DETZIM /
COLLABORATOR /
ZCCD CO-FOUNDER
PROJECT INITIATOR
DIRECTOR
2013-present
COLLABORATOR /
ZCCD CO-FOUNDER
PROJECT INITIATOR
DIRECTOR
2013-present
Chido Johnson is a Detroit artist, 2009 Kresge Fellow, and currently the section chair of Sculpture at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan. He was born and raised in Zimbabwe and Zambia, then moved to the USA in his adulthood. Both his BFA degrees in Sculpture in 1996 and in Painting with a minor in Drawing in 1997 were from the University of Georgia, Athens. Chido obtained his MFA Sculpture degree from the University of Notre Dame in 2000. He is the founder of the Wire-car Auto Workers Association of Detroit and a co-founder of the Zimbabwe Cultural Centre of Detroit. He has worked, exhibited and taught both nationally as well as internationally. He can be seen on a nice summer day pushing his 1967 pink wire-car Cadillac in the neighborhoods of Detroit.
◄ Chido on the other side of Detroit River, the city of Windsor (Canada) with Detroit in the background.