Downtown Arts: Todgi Dozier

About the Artist

Todgi Dozier | The Black Onion

Todgi Dozier is a multidisciplinary artist based in Greensboro, North Carolina, originally from Rocky Mount. She holds both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Landscape Architecture from North Carolina A&T State University and North Carolina State University, a foundation that continues to inform her spatial awareness and conceptual grounding.

As the founder of The Black Onion, Dozier creates bold, expressive works spanning murals, graphics, and wearable art. Her practice centers on liberation, education, and the amplification of historically silenced voices, with particular focus on people of color. Each work challenges perception and invites viewers to move beyond imposed limitations-affirming that nothing is impossible.

About the Artwork

Born Targets is a visual work that engages the African American diaspora by examining the lived realities of being born into a racialized identity in the United States. Central to the piece is "the talk"-the intergenerational conversations in which Black parents explain the unspoken rules, limitations, and precautions their children must navigate while growing up Black. The work does not seek to elicit sympathy for Black struggle, but instead acknowledges the persistent social conditions that make such preparation necessary, affirming the existence of this reality as both structural and enduring.