Sometimes Dreams Require A New Environment to Flourish- Dyane Marte

Dyanne Marte is a designer, educator, and doctoral student. Originally from Suriname, South America, Dyanne has lived in the states since 1979 and grew up in Montgomery County. She received her BFA in Fashion from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 1998. 

Dyanne lived in New York City and worked for New York and Co., J. Crew, and Doncaster. Dyanne also received her graduate degree in Design Management from Pratt institute in 2003. Upon her father's abrupt death from pancreatic cancer, she moved to Baltimore, Maryland, to start her company Dennya at the end of 2003. Dyanne ran her fashion label for 11 years.  

After shutting down my clothing lined in 2014, she consulted for other brands. While she was running her business, Dyanne started teaching for Baltimore Community College in fall 2005 and has been teaching ever since. In 2010 she co-wrote a fashion design concentration under the visual communications and digital media arts major for Bowie State University. Also, she wrote a curriculum for the Community College of Baltimore County, where she taught youths in summer programs and adults in continuing education. 

She moved to Sacramento, California, in 2016 to run the fashion department at American River College. As the department chair, she secured funding for the expansion of the fashion design and merchandising program. Currently, she has completed coursework for her Doctorate Degree in Education at Liberty University. Her capstone research is based on improving online lab courses at the community college level will meet all degree requirements by May 2022. Dyanne is publishing a multimedia textbook with Top Hat on inclusive fashion illustration and technical design that will be available in January 2021. She currently lives in Davis, California, with her fiancé, a chihuahua, a German Shepherd, and five chickens.