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DIANE EDISON
208 Carrington Drive Athens, Georgia 30605
Fax: 706-549-1166
phone 706-248-2483
EDUCATION:
Master of Fine arts, Painting, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1984 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan Maine
FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS - GRADUATE FACULTY 1992-present
2010-2011 Fulbright Scholar Grantee Senior Lecturer/Researcher Sofia, Bulgaria
2009 Chair, Drawing and Painting
2007 Walter Gropius Master Artist Series workshop, Huntington Museum of Art, WV
2004-2006 Co-Director, Faculty, Ghana West African Study Abroad Program
2005-2006 Co/Chair Program Review Committee for Textiles, Merchandising and Interiors, Department of Family and Consumer Sciences
2005 Elected to the executive, Finance and Budget Committee of the College Art Association serving as Vice President for Committees, Chairing the Nominating Committee
2002 Elected to the College Art Association Board
1999-Present Professor of Painting and Drawing, University of Georgia
1997-1999 Associate Director, Lamar Dodd School of Art
1997 Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
'93, ‘97 ’03 Faculty member, Cortona Study Abroad Program, Cortona Italy
1992-1996 Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
1990-1992 Assistant Professor of Foundations, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
“Anonymous Was A Woman” Award Winner 2007
DIANE EDISON SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Textbook publication “Dynamic Color Painting For The Beginner” by Harry Abrams N. Abrams Inc USA, United Kingdom spring 2008, Spanish Language EL COLOR EN LA PINTURA: COMPOSICION Y ELEMENTOS VISUALES, MEZCLA DE PINTURA, TECNICAS, TEMA Y CONTENIDO DE LAS OBRAS spring 2009 CHINESE LANGUAGE EDITION 2014
Represented by the George Adams Gallery, 525 west 26th NYC, NY 10001
http://www.georgeadamsgallery.com/artists
2015 “Diane Edison New Portrait Drawings” George Adams Gallery New York City
2011-2012 “Drawing Across Borders” featuring Professor Ekaterina Russinova of the New
Bulgarian University and Professor Diane Edison from the University of Georgia.
The exhibition was first held at the Mission Gallery in Sofia Bulgaria. It then traveled to The Lamar Dodd
School of Art in Athens Georgia
2010 “Mosaic Project” Diane Edison and at The Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA exh cat
2007-2008 “Introductions” Diane Edison, Ten year Survey of drawings and paintings,
Curated By Paula Katz of the Columbus Museum, Columbus GA
2007 “Diane Edison: “Black & White”
At the George Adams gallery during April and May of 2007, will travel to the Greenville County Museum
of Art, South Carolina (June - August), and to the Huntington Museum of Art in West Virginia * (September -
November). An illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition with an introduction by Tom Styron, director
of the Greenville County Museum of Art.
2003 “New Drawings,” George Adams Gallery, New York City, New York
2002 “Diane Edison,” Broad Street Gallery, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
2000 “A Second Look,” George Adams Gallery, New York City, New York
1998 “My Mothers Daughter,” Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia, brochure: Interview with
George Adams of the George Adams Gallery
1997 “Portraiture and Self Portraiture,” George Adams Gallery, New York City, New York
DIANE EDISON GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 Face To Face: Self Portraits From the collection of Jackie and Curtis Finch Jr. Julie Collins
Smith Museum, Auburn University
2017 Featured in “ Artist Magazine”
2017 Featured in “Foundation of Drawing: A Practical Guide to Art History, Tools, And Techniques By Al Gury”
2016 Looking a head Selections from the Mott-Warsh Collection
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey 2016 (Traveling exhibition)
2016 “From Flint With Love: Art of the African Diasora” Visual Arts Center of New Jersey Summit, NJ
1995 “Autobiographical Narratives,” Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia, brochure
1995 “Drawings and Paintings,” Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum, LaGrange, Georgia, brochure
2014 “Real/Imagined” George Adams Gallery New York City, New York
2013 “Making Faces” Salena Gallery of Long Island University in Brooklyn NY
2012 “Artist Ink” Temporary Tattoos in Printed Edition by the George Adams Gallery
New York City, New york
2012-2013 “The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World”, Pennsylvania Academy of
2010-2011 "Narcissus in the Studio: Artist Portraits and Self-Portraits," Pennsylvania Academy of Philadelphia PA
2010 Summer Group Show: “New and Classic”, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
2010 “Professori di Cortona Exhibition” Selected Works from the Faculty of the
UGA Cortona, Italy Studies Abroad Program 1970 2009
2010 "REAL(ists)" The Selby Gallery at Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL. exh. cat,
DIANE EDISON GROUP EXHIBITIONS CONTINUED
2008-2009-2010 Traveling exhibition” Looking Ahead: Portraits from the Mott-Warsh Collection”, Flint, Michigan,
exh. cat, Las Cruces Museum of Fine Art & Culture, Las Cruces, New Mexico, November 21, 2010 -
January 30, 2011, February 11-May 8, Art Museum of South Texas Corpus Christi, Texas exh. cat,
2009 “Get With The Program” George Adams Gallery New York City, NY
2007-2008 “Visions: Contemporary Drawings from the James T. Dyke Collection” Naples Museum of Art, Naples,
Florida, exh. cat.
2007 “The Feminist Figure” Forum Gallery, New York City, New York, exh. cat.
2007 “What F Word” Cynthia Broan Gallery New York City, New York, exh. cat.
2006 “ Collector's Show & Sale," Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, 2006.
2006 “OMAA, Figure in American Painting and Drawing 1985 – 2005” at the Ogunquit Museum of American
Art Ogunquit, Maine, exh. cat.
2006 “In the Gallery” George Adams Gallery, New York City, New York
2008 “Ghana West African Study Abroad Exhibition” University of Georgia
2005 “Ghana West African Study Abroad Exhibition” University of Georgia
2005 “Body Language” George Adams Gallery, New York City, New York
2005 “In Ever Greater Measure” 90 years at the Philadelphia Art Alliance,
Collections from the Rittenhouse Square Area,” Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2005 “Refusing to Dance Backwards” The Spruill Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2004 “Collectors Exhibition,” Arkansas Art Center Little Rock, Arkansas
2004 “BUSH-WACK,” George Adams Gallery, New York City, New York
2004 “Anima of The African Diaspora: The Feminine Presence,” Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia
2003 “Modern & Contemporary Portraits,” Forum Gallery, New York City, New York
2003 “Collectors Exhibition,” Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
2002 “Collectors Exhibition,” Flint Institute, Flint, Michigan
2002 “Collectors Exhibition,” Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
2002 “About Face: Self Portraits From the Collection of Jackye and Curtis Finch,”
The Von Liebig Art Center, Naples, Florida, exh. cat.
2002 “Me Myself and I,” George Adams Gallery, New York City, New York
2002 “The Art Show: Henry Street Settlement Benefit,” Art Dealers Association of America, New York City, New York
2002 “9-11-01 Gallery Artists Respond,” George Adams Gallery, New York City, New York
DIANE EDISON GROUP EXHIBITIONS CONTINUED
2001 “I love New York Art Benefit” Art Dealers Association, New York City, New York
2001 “Advancing Traditions,” Clark Atlanta University Art Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2001 “Figure/Disfigure,” University of Rhode Island, Fine Arts Center Gallery, Kingston, Rhode Island, brochure
2000 Art in the Embassy Program, American Embassy, N’djamena, Chad, exh. cat.
2000 “The Likeness of Being,” DC Moore Gallery, New York City, New York, exh. cat.
1999 “New Realism for a New Millennium,” University of Rochester,
Memorial Gallery, Rochester, New York, brochure, poster
1999 “Local Figures 1999,” Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia, brochure
1999 “Large Drawings (1996): Traveling exhibition,” Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA (January-March),
sponsored by the Arkansas Art Center Foundation, exh. cat.*
April-May Butler Institute of American Art*
1999 Youngstown, OH*
DIANE EDISON GROUP EXHIBITIONS CONTINUED
1999 Mississippi Museum of Art, Jacksonville MS*
1999 Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA*
2000 Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN*
2000 Center for the Visual Arts, Metropolitan State College, Denver, CO*
2000 Georgia Museum of Art Athens, GA*
2001 Washington State University of Art Pullman, WA*
1998 “Faculty 98,” The Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia
1998 “Luminosity,” George Adams Gallery, New York City, New York
1998- “In Her Voice: Self Portraits by Women,” The Berman Museum, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, Brochure, Poster
1998 “In the Name of the Place,” Grand Arts Kansas City, Missouri, GALA Collaborative Art Committee, exh. cat
1998 “Self Portrait Diane Edison,” Art in the Embassy Program, American Embassy, Moscow, Russia
1997 “Mixing Business with Pleasure,” Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia exh cat
1997 “Drawing From Life,” Tatischeff & Company, Inc. New York City, New York
1997 “A Show of Hands,” George Adams Gallery, New York City, New York
1997 “In the Name of the Place GALA Committee:’ Unmapping the Earth,”
GwangJu Biennale, GwangJu, Korea, exh. cat.
1996 “Portrait Exhibition,” George Adams Gallery, New York City, New York
1996 “It Figures,” SFA Gallery, Nacogdoches, Texas
1996 “Women Artist/ Educators,” Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, Georgia
DIANE EDISON GROUP EXHIBITIONS CONTINUED
1996 “Gallery Exhibition,” George Adams Gallery, New York City, New York
1995 “Summer Exhibition,” Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York City, New York
1995 “Collectors Exhibition,” Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
1994 “Diane Edison: Recent Work,” Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, Georgia
1994 “Around the House,” Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York City, New York
1994 “Collectors Exhibition,” Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
1994 “1994 SAF/NEA Fellowship Exhibition,” Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, exh. cat.
1994 “National Drawing Invitational,” The Arkansas Art Center
Little Rock, Arkansas, exh. cat.
1994 “Reaffirming the Media,” University of Missouri Kansas City, Missouri, exh. cat.
1994 “Figurative Drawings,” Charles More Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1994 “With Our Own Eyes,” Georgia Artist Registry Atlanta, Georgia
1994 “Collectors Exhibition,” The Arkansas Arts Center Little Rock, Arkansas
1992 “Diverse Directions: School of Art Faculty Exhibition,” The Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia, exh. cat.
1992 “Collectors Exhibition,” The Arkansas Arts Center Little Rock, Arkansas
1992 “Large Scale Drawings,” Frumkin/Adams Gallery New York City, New York
1992 “20th Century American Drawing” Arkansas Art Center exh cat
1992 “Figurative Drawings,” Frumkin/Adams Gallery New York City, New York
1992 “Beyond The Innocence,” The St. Louis Artist Guild, St. Louis, Missouri, exh. Cat.
1991 “Speaking for Myself,” The Rotunda Gallery, New York, NY
1990 “The Figure Now,” The Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York City, New York
DIANE EDISON GROUP EXHIBITIONS CONTINUED
1990 “Women Native Other,” The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College,
New York City, New York, brochure
1990 “The figure” Salena Gallery, Long island University, Brooklyn NY
1989-1990 “In her Voice: Self portraits by Women “Philip and Muriel Berman Museum or Art,
Ursinus College, Collegeville PA
1989 “10 Women Contemporary Portraiture and self portraiture Marymount Manhattan College
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
Art by Women Collection, Gift of Linda Lee Alter Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts
Marion Fulk Little Rock AR
Mott-Warsh Collection Flint, Michigan.
Clark Atlanta University Atlanta, GA
The Leeway Foundation Philadelphia, PA
American Embassy N’Djamena, Chad
American Embassy Moscow, Russia
Malcolm Holzman New York, NY
James T. Dyke Collection Little Rock, AR
The Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection Little Rock, AR
Curtis Finch Jr. Little Rock, AR
Virginia Bailey Little Rock,
Dr. Robert Porter Little Rock, AR
Arthur Kaplan Philadelphia, PA
DIANE EDISON: COLLECTIONS:
Ellen Oppenheimer Oakland, CA
Kay Turner Austin, TX
DIANE EDISON REVIEWS / ARTICLES / CATALOGUES / INTERVIEWS:
Person to Person Artist Magazine Interview by Austin R. Williams
Working with colored pencils on black paper, Diane Edison
crafts portraits both intimate and commanding.
2019 Francis Niederer Artist Residency Hollins University
The Plot to Put Conceptual Art on ‘Melrose Place.’ Yes, Really. 2017
Diane Edison Talks about her work by Adriana Rabinovitch theartblog.org 2013
Montgomery Media “The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World” Linda Dormont 2012
Broad Street Review “Beautiful bodies, yes. But Sexy? “Narcissus in the Studio: Artist Portraits and Self Portraits,” Anne R. Fabbri 2011
The libraryJournal.com. “Dynamic Color Painting For The Beginner” Daniel Lombardo 2008
Art In America “The Feminist Figure at Forum” Susan Harris June/July 2007
Art 21 PBS “Melrose Place” GALA COMMITTEE 2004
Atlanta Journal Constitution: “Anima of The African Diaspora: The Feminine Presence,” Clark Atlanta Gallery 2004
Walter Robinson, Artnet.com Weekend update, November 2004 (Exhibition: “Bush-Whack,” George Adams Gallery
Steven Vincent, Vitriolic Hate Through Paint, National Review Online November 16 2004
“Bush-Whack”
Peter Schjeldahl,” Diane Edison at George Adams,” New Yorker, Magazine, January 2003
Townsend Wofe, About Face: Collection of Jackeye and Curtis Finch, exh. cat. Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR, 2002
Lisa hoashi, “About Face: Collection of Jackeye and Curtis Finch,” American Artist Magazine, (Special Issue on Drawing) 70 (May 2002)
DIANE EDISON REVIEWS/ARTICLES/CATOLOGUES/INTERVIEWS CONTINUED
Ken Johnson, “Diane Edison/James Mcgarrell, at George Adams Gallery,” New York Times, February 25, 2000
Artist Magazine, (Special Issue on Drawings) 64 (January 2000)
Judith Stein, The Likeness of Being, exh. cat., DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY, 2000
Grace Glueck, “The Likeness of Being,” New York Times, January 21, 2000
Carol Diehl, “The Likeness of Being,” Art News (April 2000)
Robin Cembalest, “The Likeness of Being,” ELLE (January 2000)
Paula Routly, “The Likeness of Being,” Back Talk, January 19, 2000, 7
Joyce B. Korotkin, “The Likeness of Being,” The New York Art World.com.nyaw.com (February 2000)
Rachel Youens, “The Likeness of Being,” NY ARTS, Vol. 5, Number 1 (2000)
Edward J. Sozanski, “Viewing Women Artists Looking at Themselves,” The Philadelphia Enquirer, January 1999
Jerry Cullum, “Celebrating Local Figures Nexus Biennial,” Atlanta Journal Constitution, 1999
Candy Haas-Simmons, “Self-portraits at Berman are enigmatic windows to the soul,” The Arts Connection, Collegeville, PA, February 1999
Marguerite Devers Green, “In Her Voice: Self-portraits by Women,” Hearthstone Town & Country, Pennsburg, PA, Jan. 14, 1999
“Ursinus Exhibit Looks at Contrast in Portraiture,” The Mercury, Collegeville, PA, January 29, 1999
George Adams, My Mother’s Daughter, brochure, Macon Museum of Art, Macon, GA, 1998
Jim Murphy, “‘Her Mother’s Daughter:’ Artist Explores Herself, Others in Powerful Portraits,” Macon Dispatch, January 1998
DIANE EDISON REVIEWS/ARTICLES/CATOLOGUES/INTERVIEWS CONTINUED
Joshua Decter, “Primetime: ‘In the Name of the Place’ of Art and Television,” The GALA
GALA Committee Grand Arts Brochure, Kansas City, MO, 1997
Primetime Contemporary Art: Art By the GALA Committee as Seen on Melrose Place, auction catalogue, Sotheby’s Auction House, Beverly Hill, CA, 199
Ca. Carr, “A Brief History of Outrage” (GALA Collaborative Art Committee), Village Voice, September 22, 1999
Roberta Smith, “‘a lot to see (But Not an Artwork in Sight):’ GALA Committee Art View,”
New York Times, 1997
Ca. Carr, “Masterpiece Theater: Artists imbed secret messages in Melrose Place,” Village Voice, New York City, NY, April 22, 1997
Christopher Knight, “The Social-Art Genre,” GALA Committee, The Los Angeles Times, March 18, 1997
“GALA Committee Art Reproductions,” Sculpture Magazine, 3, 21, 42, 57, 58, 62, 81
Julie Lazar, “In the Name of the Place,” Uncommonsense, eds. Tom Finkelpearl, et al., exh. cat., Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, 1997, 2-23
“In the Name of the Place,” Unmapping the Earth, Kwangju Biennale, exh. cat. (Kwangju: Biennale Press, 1997), 244-47 and 460
Arlene Raven, “Diane Edison,” in Large Drawings and Objects from The Arkansas Art Center Foundation Collection, eds. Townsend Wofe, et al, exh. cat. Little Rock, AR, 1996, 157-160
Diane Edison: Paintings and Drawings, Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum, brochure, February1995
Cathy Downey, “Diane Edison: Autobiographical Narratives,” Nexus Contemporary Art Center, brochure, 1995
Jerry Cullum, “Diane Edison in ‘Drawings and Paintings,’” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta, GA, February 17, 1995
DIANE EDISON REVIEWS/ARTICLES/CATOLOGUES/INTERVIEWS CONTINUED
Carol May, “Diane Edison,” in Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment For The Arts, 1994, Regional Arts Fellowships, exhibition eds. Lisa Richman, et al., exh. cat., Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, 1994
Alice Thorson, “Reaffirming the Media,” The Kansas City Star, April 17, 1994
Townsend Wolfe, National Drawing Invitational, exh. cat., The Arkansas Arts Center Foundation, Little Rock, AR, 1994, 12, and 33-35
Comp Health/Kron Locum Tenens, recruiting brochure, “Art reproduction,” Salt Lake City, UT, 1994,
Tom Patterson, “‘Eye On Art,’ Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts,” Winston-Salem Journal, NC, December 11, 1994
William U. Eiland, “Diverse Directions,” School of Art Faculty Exhibition, ed. William Squire, exh. cat., Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, 1992
Esther Iverem, “Works by Three Women at Brooklyn’s Rotunda Gallery,” New York Newsday, January 29, 1992
Leon Hicks, Beyond the Innocence, brochure, St. Louis, MO, 1992
Robert W. Duffy, “Beyond the Innocence,” St. Louis Dispatch, St. Louis, MO, January 29, 1992
Katherine Sherman, “Portrait of a Young Woman,” The Georgia Guardian, Savannah, GA, January 17, 1992
Karen Shaw, “Personae: Contemporary Portraiture and Self-Portraiture,” Islip Art Museum, brochure, September 10, 1989
DIANE EDISON NATIONAL AND REGIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2013 The Arc Of The Creative Resolve Visiting Artist Auburn University
2013 Women and Portraits visiting Artist Pennsylvania Academy of Art
2013 Search Committee, Drawing and Painting
2013 University Tenure Review Committee
DIANE EDISON NATIONAL AND REGIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2013 Hosted Visiting Artist Maria Elena Gonzalez
2012 Visiting Artist, Jurist: Auburn University
2011-2012 Search Committee, Theatre Department Scenic Designer
2011 Search Committee Undergraduate University Wide Fulbright Nominees
2011 University Faculty Awards Committee
2010 Visiting Artist: The Pennsylvania College of Art and Design
2010 Visiting Artist Ringling School of Art and Design
2009 Paul C. and Margaret Beasley Broun Support Fund
Grady College of Journalism
2009 Appointed to Professional Practices Committee College Art Association
2009 CAA Round Table Moderator Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Presentation and Workshop, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Georgia
2007 Anonymous Was A Woman Award Winner
2007 Public Lecture, Greenville County Museum of Art
2007 Pubic Lecture, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Georgia
2007 CAA Round Table Moderator “The Search And The Fit” Annual Conference New York City, New York
2004 Appointed to Nominating Committee College Art Association
2004 Outside evaluator, University of Wisconsin Green Bay “Tenure and Promotion Consideration”
2004 Appointed to the conference committee College Art Association
2004 Chair of the Career Development Workshop, College art Association
2004 Visiting Artist, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
2002 Elected to the board of the College Art Association
DIANE EDISON NATIONAL AND REGIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2002 Outside Evaluator, University of Texas, Arlington, TX, “Tenure and Promotion Consideration
2002 Outside Evaluator, Bowling Green State University, “Tenure and Promotion Consideration
2001 Appointed Member, “Art’s Place” Task Force, College Art Association,
2001 Panelist Grantee “Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation” Baltimore, MA
2001 Participant, “Print Odyssey,” Cortona International Print Symposium, Cortona, Italy
2001 “Art’s Place” Task Force College Art Association, Appointment NYC NY
2002-2004 Juror, The Heinz awards
2000 Online Mentor for “Student and Emerging Professional Committee,” College
Art Association, New York, NY
2000 Committee Member,” Services to Artists,” College Art Association, New York
1999-Present Mentor, Career Development Workshop, College Art Association New York, NY
1999 Outside Evaluator, The Pennsylvania State University, “Tenure Consideration,” University Park, PA
1998 Outside Evaluator, Kansas State University, “Tenure Consideration,” Manhattan, KS
1997 Panelist, The Mid America Southeastern College Art Association,
“The Crit, The Object and the Grade,” Richmond, VA
1997 Panelist, Grand Arts, “Sisters of Sam,” Kansas City, KS
1997 Panelist, Women’s Caucus for Art National Conference, “Expanding the Creative Interval,” Philadelphia, PA
1997 Panelist “Sisters of Sam” Mel Chin and the GALA Committee Kansas City, KS
1997 Research Travel Award, Gwang Ju Biennale, Kwang Ju, Korea
DIANE EDISON NATIONAL AND REGIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1996 Panelist, Large Drawings and Objects from The Arkansas Art Center Foundation, Little Rock, AR
1995 Milton Avery Foundation Fellowship, New York, NY
1994 Sal/National Endowment for the Arts, New York, NY
1993 Georgia Council for the Arts Grant, Athens, GA
1997- “Who’s Who of American Women,” “Who’s Who in American Art,” “Who’s Present Who in the World,”
“Who’s Who in the Southeast,” Marquis Publishers
1997 “Georgia Women in the Arts,” Recognition Award, Atlanta, GA
1996 Artist Residency, Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY
1995 Artist Residency, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
2014 Lecturer
2012 Search Committee Drawing and Painting
2011 Search Committee Undergraduate University wide Fulbright nominees
2011 University Faculty Awards Committee
2011-2012 Search Committee, Theatre Department Scenic Designer
2009 Curriculum Committee
2009 School of Art Advisory Committee
2009 Chair, Drawing and Painting
2007 Program Review Committee, Lamar Dodd School of Art
2007 NASAD Self study group
2007 CO/Chair Visiting Artist and Dodd Chair Committee
2005-2006 CO/Chair Program Review for Textiles, Merchandising and
DIANE EDISON NATIONAL AND REGIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE CONTINUED
2005 Travel Grant For my Graduate Assistant to attend the Ghana West Africa Study Abroad
2005 Junior Faculty Research Grant Committee Wilson Centers for Humanities and Arts
2004-2006 University Council, Faculty Benefits Committee
2004-Present Honors Faculty Mentor Program for Honors Students
2004-2006 Promotions and Tenure Review Committee Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
2003-2006 Graduate Faculty Promotion Review Committee
2003-2006 University Council
1993-1995 Grantee, Georgia Council for the Arts, Atlanta, GA
2002 “Is Marketing Killing the Arts?” Panel with Kunal Basu CHA Visiting Scholar
2000 CO/Chair Search Committee Digital Media, Athens, GA
2000- 2000 Deans Forum, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2000- 2003 Graduate Dean search committee UGA Athens, GA
1999 Senior Faculty Research Grant, Athens, GA
1999 Dean’s Forum, The University of Georgia
1998 Search Committee, Drawing and Painting, Assistant Professor
1997 Search Committee, Director for the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
1997-Present Portfolio Review Committee
1996 Search Committee Drawing and Painting University of Georgia, Athens, GA
1995 Faculty Committee on Basics Courses, Lamar Dodd School of Art
1994 Visiting critic for senior painting students, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
DIANE EDISON: PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY SERVICE CONTINUED:
1993 Junior Faculty Research Grant, Athens, GA
1993 Panelist, Georgia Museum of Art, “Guerrillas in our Midst” (The Guerrilla Girls)
1993 Search Committee, Sculpture, Assistant Professor Athens, GA
1992-Present Biannual Jurist for students entering BFA Painting and Drawing area