Diane Rappisi [NRA 2010]

First name: Diane
Middle name:  ;
Last name: Rappisi

Member: Non-resident artist member
Begin: 2010
End:  ;

Biography:

Diane Rappisi is a contemporary realist painter whose work fuses the light and chroma of the Cape Cod colorists with the form and structure of the traditional Italian and French academies. She works in oil, pastel, charcoal, and graphite.

Diane is a Masters Circle member of the International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS), and served on its Board of Directors from 2016-2021. She is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America and the Maryland Pastel Society, and also holds memberships in the Salmagundi Club in New York, the Oil Painters of America, and the Pastel Society of Colorado. Her work resides in numerous private and public collections across the US, in New Zealand, Australia and the Netherlands, and selected pieces have been published for the National Park Service in Glen Echo, MD.

Diane is a two-time finalist in the Art Renewal Center International Salon. Her other honors include awards from the Pastel Society of America’s Annual Exhibition in New York City, the International Association of Pastel Societies biennial in Albuquerque, NM, and two awards in the 2022 Pastel Journal’s “Top 100.” She’s been invited to exhibit at the Colorado Governor’s Invitational at the Loveland Museum, The Butler Institute of Art in Youngstown, OH, and she has participated in national and international group shows at Arte et Amicitae in Amsterdam; the National Arts Club in New York; S.R.Brennen Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and The Union League in Philadelphia, PA. She has taught workshops at the International Association of Pastel Societies’ biennial conventions, and at various locations throughout the US, in Australia, and the South Island of New Zealand. Her work was published in “Pure Pastel” in 2019 and was featured in the December 2014 issue of Pastel Journal.

Diane trained in Philadelphia, PA, in the full-time Professional Program at the innovative Studio Incamminati which was founded by renowned artist Nelson Shanks. She also served as Incamminati’s Executive Director in 2005-6, and returned as Interim President in 2018-2019. While Diane is originally from New Jersey, she has resided and taught in Massachusetts, Colorado, and Texas. While living in Colorado, she owned and operated a studio, “The Atelier at Castle Rock,” where she painted regularly and offered private and group instruction.

Diane and her husband have now settled down in eastern Maryland. She opened a studio in Chestertown, “Diane Rappisi Fine Art Studio,” where she now paints, teaches and exhibits, and offers off-site workshops. Diane is also on the faculty of the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD.

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