Diana Arcadipone Associate Professor diana.arcadipone@lesley.edu Bio Portfolio Site Recent Exhibitions Awards and Grants Lectures and Workshops Studio Affiliations and Advisory Board Diana Arcadipone is a maker who studied painting and printmaking at Western Michigan University, where she earned a BFA degree with honors. She earned an MFA degree from Ohio University with honors. She has been awarded artist residencies at Dorland Mountain Arts Colony in Temecula, California as well as The Banff Centre and the Leighton Artists' Colony in Alberta, Canada. She has exhibited work internationally and her work is held in many public and private collections in the US and Europe. She travels and researches art making techniques globally and lives in Maine. Diana Arcadipone creates artworks on and of paper. Her passion for making art with natural materials, and mixed media emerged from an early devotion to craft techniques such as papermaking, book arts, basketry, embroidery and textiles. Arcadipone's work is informed by primitive art, folk art, traveling, and the natural environment; it is the intersection of these influences that defines her work. Portfolio Site arcadipone.com Recent Exhibitions Best in Show, Littlefield Gallery, Winter Harbor, ME, 2017 Contemporary Craft, Chestertown River Arts, MD, 2017 Thinking about Water, Waterworks Museum, Boston, MA, 2017 Create V, Maine College of Art, CS Faculty and Student Exhibition, Portland, ME, 2016 Art of Stewardship, Chestertown River Arts, MD, Award for “Triplets”, 2016 New Directions, Roberts and Raizes Galleries, Lunder Art Center, Cambridge, MA, 2016 Gallery Artists Show, Roby King Gallery, Bainbridge, WA, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Faculty Exhibition, Gallery at Porter Square, Cambridge, MA, 2015 Roby King Gallery, Two-person show, Bainbridge, WA, 2011 Place Exhibition, ArtStrand Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 2010 Awards and Grants Maine Arts Commission, Project Grant for Artists, 2016 Lesley University College of Art and Design, Faculty Grants, 1996 - 2017 Lectures and Workshops Papermaking, Bookbinding, Dollmaking from Scraps, Brushmaking @ Folk Art Studio, Norway, ME The Lending Program for Maine Artists Curates, monthly exhibitions at Cafe Nomad, Norway, ME Careers in Art Workshop Series with Western Maine Artist Group, Norway, ME Studio Affiliations and Advisory Board Folk Art Studio, Norway, ME Education Committee, Western Maine Artist Group