Deanna Dionne is an interdisciplinary artist and designer whose work explores transformation, material memory, and the ongoing process of becoming. With a practice grounded in intuition and experimentation, she moves fluidly between found object assemblage, digital design, writing, and mixed media collage.
Much of Deanna’s work is shaped by a personal history of constraint and liberation. After leaving a high-control religious group in 2020, her creative practice became a space to reimagine identity on her own terms—through texture, through narrative, through the act of making itself. Though her story is specific, her work speaks broadly to resilience, reinvention, and the quiet courage of self-definition.
She is drawn to materials that hold time and tension—broken glass, reflective films, epoxy resin, digital and printed ephemera—and allows her environment to inform what she creates. Her pieces often dwell in the in-between: fragility and strength, grief and discovery, deconstruction and play.
Deanna is best known for founding Cleveland Street Glass, a jewelry line crafted from shattered car windows found after break-ins. The project garnered attention for its originality and poetic re-use of urban materials, earning her a place on Cleveland Magazine’s Most Interesting People list in 2017 and the Best New Artist award at the Lakewood Arts Festival in 2018. Her work has been featured in regional media and worn by collectors across the country.
Deanna values slowness, presence, and connection. She’s especially energized by residencies that offer time for deep listening, exploration, and the exchange of ideas. Whether working alone in nature or collaborating in a shared studio, her process is rooted in curiosity and the search for meaning in unlikely places.