Dixon secured $11.2 million in capital funding from New York City to renovate the museum and expand its exhibition galleries.
[6][7] On Dixon's final day of work at the Bronx Museum, she secured a $1 million Ford Foundation stabilization grant.
She also secured nearly $20 million from the state of New York, enabling the museum to stabilize its facilities, while at the same time more than doubling the annual operating budget.
Dixon produced more than 200 shows, including a 1985 interview with Richard Serra[12] during the height of the controversy over "Tilted Arc", the Federal Plaza installation that led to a bitter fight between local government employees and those defending the rights of artists.
It has two goals: to bring those buildings up to residential safety and fire codes, and to give rights and rent protection to the tenants who live there.
[citation needed] In 1991, Dixon married John R. Boone, a contemporary artist whose work focuses on colloquial expressions painted in a digital font.