Articles and Publications
Two brooches from Diane’s Native Species Series were featured in the Sept/Oct, 2020 issue of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist magazine and her Hurricane Ike experience is told in the article titled “CERF Is There For You,” by Sharon Elaine Thompson, about CERF+ (Craft Emergency Relief Fund) and several artists who have benefitted from CERF relief programming.
Diane’s brooches, Water, Water, Everywhere, and Whirlpool, and her neckpiece titled Reliquary for Our Roots (and Things of That Nature), were featured in the June/July 2018 issue of American Craft magazine, Vol. 78, No. 3, p.60, in an article titled “Prime Time,” an illustrated selection of 19 art jewelers by the editors with commentary by Brigitte Martin, editor at large.
Diane’s work was featured in the Vol. 37, No. 5, 2017 issue of Metalsmith magazine in a feature article, “Reinventing Memory - Contemporary Cameos” by Marjorie Simon.
Brooches, Folly, and Gothic Revival Brooch (The Sublime and The Beautiful) were included in the exhibition, Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography at the Museum of Art and Design in New York.
Curated by MAD’s Curator of Jewelry, Ursula Ilse-Neuman, Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography was on view from May 13th to September 14th, 2014.
Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography was accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with essays by Ursula Ilse-Neuman, MAD’s Chief Curator Lowery Stokes Sims, Dutch author and jewelry curator Liesbeth den Besten, photography expert Mark Durant, Curator of Decorative Arts at the Toledo Museum of Art Jutta Page, American author and Metalsmith editor Suzanne Ramljak, photography historian and critic Lyle Rexer and German author and critic Ellen Maurer Zillioli.
The exhibition was accompanied by a full range of educational programming, including lectures and panels for adults, workshops for young visitors and families, in-house demonstrations of jewelry making, curator-led tours of the exhibition, and a variety of film screenings.
Gothic Revival Brooch (The Sublime and The Beautiful) was featured on pages 16 and 17 of Metalsmith magazine’s 2012 Curated Exhibition in Print, Gothic Jewelry: Sinister Pleasures. The publication was curated by Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and author of more than a dozen books on fashion and related topics.
Gothic Revival Brooch (The Sublime and The Beautiful) was also exhibited at SOFA, Chicago, in November 2012, as part of a related exhibition which also traveled to the Metals Museum in Memphis, TN
Diane's brooch, Dalliance, was featured in the spring 2012 issue of Metalsmith magazine (Vol 32 No 2, pgs 32–39) in a feature article titled “Narrative Illusion: Jewelry from Painting.” Author Lena Vigna, Curator of Exhibitions at the Racine Art Museum, illustrates and cites Diane’s work in the context of other contemporary jewelry artists whose works also explore the complex dynamic between painting and jewelry.
Diane was selected as one of 33 finalists in the Society for Contemporary Crafts’ biennial Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize competition: Transformation 8: Contemporary Works in Small Metals in 2012. Diane created Gothic Revival Brooch (The Sublime and the Beautiful) expressly for the competition and exhibition, which traveled to the Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock, AR after debuting in Pittsburgh, PA at SCC February 3rd - June 30th, 2012.
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Showcase: 500 Rings: New Directions in Art Jewelry; p. 51; Marthe Le Van, Bruce Metcalf; Lark Crafts, 2012; Asheville, NC
21st Century Jewelry: The Best of the 500 Series; p. 264 + mentioned in essay, p.9; Marthe Le Van; Lark Crafts/Sterling Publishing Co.; 2011, NY
Diane’s Red Upholstery Brooch was featured on the cover of Metalsmith magazine’s 2009 Exhibition in Print (Vol 29, No 4) and also inside the issue on page 43. Work included in this publication was selected by jurors Marilyn da Silva and Jamie Bennett. Metalsmith magazine is published by the Society of North American Goldsmiths. Exhibition in Print was an annual special issue that was alternately juried and curated.
Diane’s Double Hidden Portrait brooch was published in Signs of Life 2009 (Vol. 33, No. 1), an art and literary journal accompanying an exhibition of the same name at Facèré Gallery in Seattle, Washington, from October 7th through October 28th, 2009. The publication and exhibition were curated by gallery owner Karen Lorene. Diane’s brooch is pictured on page 15. A companion short story was written by Stephanie Kallos.
Signs of Life, an art and literary journal and accompanying exhibition at Facèré Gallery in Seattle, Washington, from October 7th through October 28th, 2009, was reviewed in Ornament magazine; Diane's Double Hidden Portrait brooch, is pictured on page 15 of Vol. 33, No. 1.
Red Upholstery Brooch is featured in 500 Plastic Jewelry Designs: A Groundbreaking Survey of a Modern Material; p. 232; Marthe Le Van, Editor; Intro by Susan Kasson Sloan; Lark Books, 2009, Asheville, NC
Rococo Landscape is featured in Ornament magazine's review of “Framing: The Art of Jewelry/Touching Warms The Art” at the Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR; Alice Scherer ; Vol. 31, No. 3, pp 66–67; 2008
Four of Diane's brooches were featured in Metalsmith magazine's, Exhibition in Print 2007, Framing the Art of Jewelry; Curated by Ellen Lupton; Vol. 27, No. 4, pp.32, 33, 41
Diane's Garden of Earthly Delights neckpiece was featured in 500 Necklaces: Contemporary Interpretations Of A Timeless Form; p.84; Marthe Le Van, Editor; Intro by Marjorie Schick; Lark Books, 2006, Asheville, NC
500 Brooches: Inspiring Adornments For The Body features Diane's brooch, Heavenly Blue Morning Glory; p. 60; Marthe Le Van, Editor; Intro by Marjorie Simon; Lark Books, 2005, Asheville, NC