1979 Wind Challenge Artist
Diane Pieri is a Visual Artist who received a BFA from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art in 1969. She has had 31 solo exhibitions and been included in 220 national and international group exhibitions since 1969. She has been the recipient of two Pollock-Krasner Grants (1999/1992), two Independence Foundation Fellowships in the Arts (2001/2011), a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant (1992). She was included in the 2005 Philadelphia Invitational Portfolio, Philagrafika. She has been a fellow at Yaddo (1991) and The MacDowell Colony (1990). Since 2001 Pieri has completed 12 murals working with Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program. In 2005 Pieri founded the Cooke Museum of Art, modeled after the Philadelphia Museum of Art, at the Jay Cooke Elementary School in North Philadelphia. Pieri has been a Teaching Artist at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for 21 years. When creating her artwork for the Challenge, Pieri listened to punk rock music, however, she is now an avid listener of classical and jazz music.
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