Instructor Diana De Santis

Diana is a graduate of the Parsons School of Design, also attended Traphagen School of Design. In 1989, she began attending the Arts Students League, where she was awarded a one-year scholarship and studied with David Leffel and Harvey Dinnerstein.

Diana’s article “Keep It Simple” was published in” American Artist” Magazine in the March 2006 issue. She was the featured artist in an international pastel exhibit in Verbania Italy, from July 28, 2005 through August 15, 2005. She became the cover artist in the June 2004 issue of “The Pastel Journal”, her article appears inside. Her landscape paintings were on exhibit at the Hermetage in St, Petersburg, Russia, concluding a 2002 traveling exhibit in Normandy France and five museums in northern Italy. One of Diana’s portraits is in a five year Smith Kramer traveling exhibit and being shown in 14 museums nationally. Diana’s article “Find a Great Subject Anywhere” was published in Pastel Artist International 2000. Her article “Cast A Colorful Shadow” was published in the Artists Magazine September 2000. Diana’s painting “Ainat” was in the top ten in the “American Artist” National competition, October 1997 issue. Her article, “Create Stronger Hands”, was published in the January 1997 issue of “The Artist Magazine”. Three of her portraits were included in the “Best of Pastel” 1998 and 1996 editions, and “Pastel Impressions” 1997 edition by Rockport Publishers. Her portrait of Augusta Gulden the mustard heiress, hangs in the Gulden Memorial Pavillion in Southside Hospital Bay Shore NY.

Diana is an official Coast Guard artist Diana DeSantis HAS HAD 10 SOLO SHOWS & EXHIBITS AT: Nassau County Museum of Art / Hecksher Museum in Huntington National Arts Club in Gramercy Park, Manhattan Salmagundi Club Manhattan Pastel Society exhibits in France. Italy and Russia during 2002 Received 15 Gold Medals and over 200 Awards

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