Jim Dimick Jr Author/Artist

Jim Dimick Jr is a native of the Upper Midwest, born and raised in Wisconsin and Minnesota.  He is a graduate of Northfield high school and St Olaf College in southern Minnesota.  He was a middle school teacher and a high school coach in the small town of LeSueur, Minnesota for six years.  He then spent a year traveling with a backpack and working in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.  After returning to college to earn a CPA degree, he spent 35 years in public accounting, finishing his career as a principal in an award-winning accounting firm.  During 24 of these years, he was also a basketball coach, at both the high school and collegiate Division 3 level. 

 

Jim wrote and published his first book Hometown Kid City Kid in August of 2021.  He has produced many paintings.  Most of the boundary waters art is watercolor paintings created on-site in the wilderness of Northern Minnesota.  Others are landscapes and sports paintings in oils.  He comes by this naturally, as his maternal grandmother Francis Cleary Hopkins was an oil painter.  And his family tree is full of other people active in their own local art, music, stage, and writing communities.  His paternal grandfather Richard Dimick was a tenth-generation American farmer, believing in and practicing sustainable farming ahead of his time.  His father Jim Sr was the legendary baseball coach at St Olaf, and his mother Nancy was a volunteer and homemaker.

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Jim and his wife Martha Holton Dimick live in a century-old brick house in North Minneapolis, which they bought as a foreclosed property and restored.  It was originally a farmhouse, and one of the original homes of the Ewald family which provided dairy products for the city in the early twentieth century.  There is no longer a barn and Guernsey cows behind the house, but there is a large vegetable garden and three chickens.  Martha recently retired from her position as a Hennepin County judge.    

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