Dianne Pledger

Dianne Pledger has been named the new director of the Diggs Art Gallery at Winston-Salem State University. Pledger is the principal consultant of Pledger Consulting, a firm she founded in 1992 that specializes in nonprofit administration, strategic planning, grant writing, board development and organizational capacity building.

As director, Pledger will provide intellectual and artistic leadership to advance the gallery’s role in supporting undergraduate curricular and co-curricular programs while promoting the visual arts locally, regionally and nationally.

Pledger holds a bachelor’s degree in English/journalism from North Carolina Central University.