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Dorienne was born July 16, 1947 in Ossinning, New York, to Edna Dora Testa and John Louis Dupont Bassett. She, her older sister Tink, and twin brother John, was raised on a farm outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In Elementary school she won a scholarship to attend Carneigie Institute of Technology for weekly art classes. At 15, her family moved to Westfield, N.J., where she graduated from high school. She attended the University of North Florida on a full President’s Scholarship.
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She graduated Magma cum Laude with a Bachelors of Art in Education Degree and was voted into Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities. She continued her education earning a Masters Degree in education with an emphasis in art. She has also attended many classes and conferences at the Savannah School of Art and Design, and workshops with Munn Quan, Jerry Pickney, Jerry Ulsman, Louise Freshman Brown, Memphis Wood, Charlie Brown, Robert Arneson, Toshiko Takaezu, and Marilyn Levine. Dorienne taught visual art in the Duval County school system for 21 years, from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade, her most recent school being Stanton College Preparatory High School. She has taught classes at University of North Florida, Florida Community College of Jacksonville, and Jacksonville University.
Dorienne has exhibited annually in the Duval Art Teachers Juried Exhibition and the National Art Educators Juried Exhibition, invitational and juried shows at Gallery Contemporanea, FCCJ, UNF, Gallery 88, Arts Mania Visual Arts Exhibit, JCVA, Exhibit A Gallery Artworks, Heaven on Earth Restaurant, Java Cafe, Beaches Baptist Medical Center, The Artist's Group, The Butterfield Garage Gallery, and The King Street Gallery in St. Augustine. She also has works in permanent collections in The Institute of Propaganda in Frankfurt, Germany, San Francisco, Atlanta, UNF, and FCCJ.
Dorienne enjoys writing, reading, gardening, drumming, tai chi, yoga, traveling, camping, canoeing, horseback riding, going to her studio and making stuff, and resides with her husband, Jimmy and near her daughter Summer in Florida. She would like to thankfully honor her daughter, Summer Morris, for her contribution of her company logo which is used on her business cards, jewelry tags and stickers and for designing and making her homepage for her website. A HUGE thank-you and honoring goes to her husband, Jimmy Rogers, who has done ALL of the programming and coding to make this website efficiently functional.
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