About
Between Lebanon
and California.
Dima Mabsout is a Lebanese multidisciplinary artist, educator, and social practitioner based in Santa Cruz, California.Her work centers land, extraction, memory, and landscape as living archives. Through film, performance, installation, material processes, and collaborative research, she brings ancient narratives into conversation with present ecological and political realities.
Dima holds an MFA in Environmental Art & Social Practice from UC Santa Cruz, an M.Ed. in Arts in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins. For more than a decade, she has developed arts and learning programs across grassroots collectives, nonprofits, schools, and universities.