Diane Di Bernardino Sanborn
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Teaching Experience
2022 - 2023 Workshop and Instructor, Arizona Artists Guild and Sonoran Arts League
2001 - 2022 Art Professor Maricopa Community Colleges: Glendale Community College, Glendale, AZ
2021 - 2022 ART Club, ART Connections, Club Advisor, 4-panel project
2012 Glendale Community College Outstanding Adjunct Faculty of the Year, Maricopa Community Colleges, AZ
Courses taught: Drawing, Design, Painting, Color Theory, Art History, and Art Marketing
2001 Instructor/Curator, (9 Personal Visions) of September 9/11, exhibit in PVCC library
1972 – 1988- Adjunct Professor of Art, Painting, Drawing, Color Theory, Design, Art History, Triton College, River Grove, IL
Professional Experience
2023 Sonoran Art League Presenter, Desert Foothills Library
2020 Glendale Community College Entrepreneurial Innovation Program Invitational Guest Speaker
2008 Art Workshop Leader for Art Students & Songscapes, a solo exhibit, Robert Morris College, Chicago State Street Gallery,
Workshop Leader, Classroom & Career, The Spirit that Connects
2008 Nominated for Phoenix AZ Governor’s Arts Award in Best in Art Education
2004 – 2014 Past Owner/Founder/Director/Instructor of BRIO Fine Arts Center, Scottsdale, AZ, a Fine Arts Center with art instruction/gallery exhibits in several valley locations
Solo Exhibits
2024 Solo Exhibit, Walter Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2023 Solo Exhibit, Stark Gallery, Xavier Prep School, Phoenix, AZ
2022 One Woman Home Art Exhibit, Scottsdale, AZ
2020 Water Street Studios and Gallery, Two-Person Exhibit, The Shape of Things, Batavia, IL
2020 Executive Towers Lobby Exhibit, Curator, Robrt Pela, Phoenix, AZ2019 Blue Wave, and MuseArte Tone Poems,
One Woman Multi-media Home Art Exhibit, Scottsdale, AZ2017 Solo Exhibit, Central Arts Plaza, Phoenix, AZ
2017 Solo Exhibit, The Newton Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2017 One Woman Home Art Exhibit, Scottsdale, AZ
2016 One Woman Home Art Exhibit, Scottsdale, AZ
2015 Abstract Collection, Pita Jungle, Gilbert, Mesa and Scottsdale AZ
2014 One-Woman Abstracted, Central Arizona College, Coolidge, AZ
2014 Artlink, solo exhibit, US Bank Building, Phoenix, AZ
2012 New Visions, Two Visionaries, two-person exhibit, Phoenix, AZ
2008 Songscapes, Robert Morris University, State Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 From the Ground Up, solo exhibit, BRIO Fine Arts Center, Scottsdale, AZ
2002 One Woman Exhibit, McDowell Center, Scottsdale, AZ
1981 Invitational Triton College, One-Woman Show, River Grove, IL
1980 Governors State University, Graduate Exhibition of Drawings and Paintings, Park Forest, IL
Group Exhibits
2019-20 Shaneland Arts Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2019 Emotions, a four person exhibit at Royse Contemporary Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2018 Four-Woman Exhibit, Royse Contemporary, Reinventing Abstraction, Scottsdale, AZ
2017 Gallery Artists Part XIV, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Juror, Workshop Leader, Tempe, AZ
2016 The New Abstractionists Part IX, Four-Person Exhibit, WWG, Walter Wickiser Gallery, NY
2016 Faculty Exhibit, Glendale Community College, Glendale, AZ
2016 The New Abstractionists IX, WWG Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY
2014 mod.artists gallery, representation, Dallas, TX
2014 Dry: A Summer Art Event, r. pela contemporary gallery
2014 31st Annual Juried Visual Arts Alliance, Houston TX
2014 Women’s Work 27th Annual, Woodstock, IL
2013 Scottsdale Biennale, Wee Gallery
2013 Thermal PHX, monOrchid Gallery, Phoenix, AZ,
2013 r. pela Contemporary Gallery, Phoenix, AZ Klown Exhibit
2013 East End Arts H20, 2nd Annual National Show, Riverhead, NY,
2013 University of Texas/Tyler, Meadows Gallery, 28th International Exhibit, Wade Wilson, Juror
2013 Eastern Kentucky University, Giles Gallery “Crossroads” Exhibit, Richmond, KY
2013 Florence Italy Biennale, Awarded International Exhibition, Laguna, Italy
2013 Carbon, Life, Decay and Beyond, Water Street Studios, Batavia, IL
2012 Glendale Arts Council Group Exhibit, AZ
2012 Laveen Art League Group Exhibit, AZ
2012 Arizona Art Guild, Second Place Award
2011 The Poetry of Arizona's Landscape, The University Club, Phoenix, AZ
2011 Women's Room, Art by Phoenix's Premier Female Artists, Bragg's Pie Factory, AZ
2009 Singularity Exhibit, Herberger Art Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2009 Semi-finalist, Cave Creek Art and Film Festival
2008 Songscapes, solo exhibit, Robert Morris University, The State Street Gallery, Chicago IL
2006 47th Annual, Glendale Arts Council, Glendale, AZ Purchase Award
2006 Painted Desert, City of Phoenix
2006 Summer Artist-in-Residence School of the Art Institute, Saugatuck, MI
2005 Inside/Outside, Herberger Art Gallery, group exhibit, Phoenix, AZ
2004 The Home Exhibit, Shemer Art Center, Phoenix, AZ
2004 Salon Exhibit, Mesa Arts Center,2003-4 Annual Exhibit, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ
2002 Faculty Show, Paradise Valley Community College, Phoenix, AZ
2001 Invitational Finalist Coutts Memorial Museum, El Dorado. Kansas
Juror
2020 Critique Workshop Leader, Tempe Art Guild
2013 Juror, WHAM Arts Organization, West Valley, Surprise, AZ
2013 Juror, Herberger Theater Gallery Exhibit
2008 Juror, Sonoran Art League
2008 Juror & Presenter, Cave Creek Film & Art Festival
2008 Juror, Sonoran Art League
2007 Juror, Arizona Art Alliance Annual Exhibit
Residencies/Professional Organizations
2018 Summer Artist - in - Residence, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA
2006 Ox-Bow, Artist-in-Residence, School of the Art Institute, Chicago. IL