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Science Art Three (The Stuff Of Creation) Science Art Four (Fowler's Star Stuff)
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Bio

The artist has a fine arts degree with an emphasis on drawing along with a minor in art history from Kutztown University. Her works have have been displayed in East End Gallery and Between The Pages Coffeeshop (both of Appleton WI), at the Apple Butter Fest and the Angels for Animals Holiday Art Show & Sale, and were employed in sets of Victorian Players theatre group. The drawing Crow was used as the cover for J.P.Dancing Bear’s 2004 book Billy Last Crow. The Geology of The National Parks (Harris/Tuttle) and Keystone Trails Association Pennsylvania Hiking Trails Calendar and website have published her photographs. Spending seventeen years in chocolate factories has given her talents ranging from running a molding line to producing the liquid chocolate to creating fine European truffles by hand. She has circumnavigated the perimeter of the state of Pennsylvania on a solo bike-packing trip, solo-backpacked across the mountains (small ones) of this most favorite state for 2 weeks at a time, assisted in the cave survey of Wind Cave National Park, and performed renovations of planetarium domes.

Education

Kutztown State University Kutztown, Pennsylvania,  1979-1982,  Bachelor’s of Fine Arts,  magna cum laude
Broad fine arts curriculum
Major: drawing          Minor: art history (27 credits)

Employment

Shelton-Mathews Chocolates,  Youngstown, Ohio,  Production Technician
(December 2001–May 2004) Moulded and hand-formed European-style truffles, pralines and other chocolates and candies, operated candy machinery, serviced customers, handcrafted special requests.
Hopkins Engineering,  Brandenton, Florida, Technician
(May 2001–May 2002) Renovated planetarium domes in Muncy, Indiana, and San Antonio, Texas.
R.M.Palmer Co.,  West Reading, Pennsylvania,   Production Technician
(August 1983–August 1998) Operated moulding lines and chocolate manufacturing processes.

Awards received

Projects, publications, and presentations


Exhibitions -- juried

Exhibitions -- other

Volunteer experience

Austintown Township Parks
Assisted in 2003 BioBlitz Survey of plant & animal life
Wind Cave National Park
Caving Trip Reports 2001, August 7, 2001. with Rod Horrocks & Doug Fowler, assisted on re-survey of 323 feet of Wind Cave, South Dakota (the Bachelor Quarters)
Victorian Players theatre group
Constructed rose window in set of Becket 2001
Appalachian Trail and trails throughout Pennsylvania
Maintained by building steps, waterbars, sidehill, and by building trail shelters along them, using Norwegian scribing method, 1990 – 1999.
Blue Mountain Eagle Climbing Club & Allentown Hiking Club
Planned and lead hikes, backpacks, bikepacks and water activities,1986-1995.

Artist’s statement

Indulging In A Passion For Mark-Making: With adrenaline-charged mark-making the artist attempts to portray the heaving mass of life forms around her, painting and drawing fields of energy and minefields of emotion and thought which are clearly visible to her. She sees a landscape that writhes, twists, and sometimes rises, envelopes and embraces. Her pieces often try to record a compressed geologic history. This vision is applied to figures and activities that capture her wits, are absorbed, digested & spewed back out upon the working surface. The artist finds bird and land forms apt vehicles for translating her personal delvings into existentialism— i.e. why make art at all? A rising bird, a seeking bird, a storm-tossed bird, a scrabbling-in-the-gritty-barnyard dirt-bird, a bird terrorized trying to escape the crazed snorting bull . . . and a carnival bird, all are used to symbolize the searching soul. Pieces are physically worked into, pushed, pulled, gashed, soothed and stroked. A wide variety of mostly water-soluble media are used to converse with the surfaces, usually crashing beyond any boundaries of tidiness.

Website samples and contact:

Diana Ludwig, Fine Artist and Illustrator
HC 1 Box 169 Clarington Pennsylvania 15828 (Studio)
1128 Logan Ave McDonald Ohio 44437
330-530-2659 (Studio: 814-752-6328)

drawingdiana@gmail.com

Website portfolios:
http://www.geocities.com/diwigy
http://www.freediana.freeservers.com/artworks1.html
http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/d/diwigy/
http://www.photo.net/photodb/member-photos?include=all&user_id=478658
The FreeDiana site pages:

First Page of Artwork
Second Page of Artwork
Third Page of Artwork
Fourth Page of Artwork
Fifth Page of Artwork
Art of Science Projects
Art of Science Page the Second
Essential Links
Feature by Karen Fry:
 Trumbull Area Artists (TAA)

This site's pages:
Science Art One(astronomical)
Science Art Two (botanical)
Science Art Three(The Stuff Of Creation)
Science Art Four(Fowler's Star Stuff)
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