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| Biography
Diane Falkenhagen has been a studio jeweler for 30 years. She holds a B.F.A. from the University of North Texas and an M.F.A. from the University of Houston. She is a native of Texas but has also lived for extended periods in Brazil, Alaska and England. Diane maintains a private studio on west Galveston Island in Texas, where she shares a home with her husband, Peter, and their two Airedale Terriers. She is also an adjunct professor at Alvin Community College where she teaches jewelry making and metalsmithing three days a week.
Diane is best known for her fabricated, one-of-a-kind jewelry. Her mixed media compositions often combine characteristic pictorial imagery -- invented or borrowed from historical sources -- with fabricated metal forms and a diverse range of art media. Her work is an unconventional marriage of material and content that references a myriad of interests including: memory, metaphor, figuration, romanticism, historical ornament, art history and iconography.
Diane's work is exhibited widely and is held in numerous private collections. It has been published in American Craft, Metalsmith, Ornament, Southwest Art , the New York Times, Color on Metal, Wrap, Stitch, Rivet and Fold, and five of the popular Lark Books 500 Series publications including: 500 Brooches and 500 Necklaces.
Aside from her one-of-a-kind art jewelry and her community teaching, Diane periodically leads special workshops around the country on mixed media techniques for jewelers and metalsmiths. From 2006 to 2008 Diane was a Visiting Professor at the University of Houston. She is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Society of North American Goldsmiths, and a former member of the Metalsmith magazine Editorial Advisory Committee.
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