Diana Heyne

artist bio

<p>Multidisciplinary artist Diana Heyne&rsquo;s work in puppetry, performance and sculpture has been performed and exhibited regularly in galleries and theatres throughout the United States and Europe. Her work is informed by a strong engagement with cultural history, world mythology and the realm of fairy tales. Diana has been the recipient of numerous exhibition awards, grants and fellowships for her work in sculpture, performance, writing and musical composition. She is a frequent and enthusiastic traveler and several of her grants have been specifically awarded for artists&rsquo; residencies and cultural exchange in countries as diverse as Poland, Cuba and France. She holds a fine arts degree with honors from Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Richmond, Virginia. Her teaching experience includes Waldorf kindergarten (a creative arts based curriculum with an emphasis on storytelling and puppetry), an associate professorship in art history and art appreciation at Virginia Union University, museum workshops for adults and children, and continuing education classes in sculpture. Her work is found in private collections in the United States and Europe as well as the permanent collections of the White House and the National Gallery of Poland. From 2003 through 2008 Heyne worked with the Applied Imagination company creating &ldquo;botanical architecture&rdquo; (an organic rendering of small scale building models with natural materials from field and forest) and in creating exhibition installations of these works in venues around the United States, including the New York Botanical Gardens, the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas and the National Botanical Garden, Washington, D.C. Her work in this genre also features prominently in several books published by the New York Botanical Gardens, the Chicago Botanical Gardens and in a PBS television documentary on the New York exhibition. Diana Heyne currently resides in France.</p>

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