Joe Diggs in Conversation with Benton Jones, Director of Art

Included with PAID museum admission, FREE with museum membership.

Benton Jones speaks with Joe Diggs, Dreamscapes and Inner Worlds juror about his work.

Joseph (Joe) Diggs is a practicing artist, curator, and educator who lives and works in Cape Cod. His paintings range from realist depictions of African American history and personal family memories to gestural plein-air landscapes and geometric abstractions, and they span in scale from large, wall-sized murals to small, intimate works on cardboard. Diggs’ expansive artistic vision is unified by dynamic textures, perspectives, colors, and forms. Although anchored in his local Cape Cod community, Joe Diggs’ paintings are in many national and international private collections.

Joe Diggs was born in Croix Chapeau, France, to a military family with roots in the historic African American community around Cape Cod. After graduating from Southeastern Massachusetts University with a bachelor’s degree in fine art painting, Diggs traveled the world as…