Working in varied mediums, I have focused in different areas at different times of my life. Currently, while working in varied mediums, my work almost entirely originates from my photography. I enjoy creating specific pieces for clients and much of my work is custom and commissioned.
1986 – present
Diane Firtell Design
Formerly NYC, currently Pittsfield MA
Artist/Designer/Owner
Originally using Fimo clay (with deco glass and semi precious stones) then casting in silver and my work has sold internationally in galleries, fine boutiques and museums, both privately and corporately. Since moving to the Berkshires I have worked mostly in oils, photography, image transfer/digital collage/mixed media.
Print credits include
The Artful Mind, L.A. Style, Black Essence, Simplicity Pattern, Avon, Fad Magazine.
Jewelry has been used in the movies; Cocktail; Earth Girls are Easy and on the television shows LA Law and Moonlighting and in the collections of Tom Robbins,
Roseanne Barr, Dianne Feinstein and Loni Alpert,.
My “art postcards” combine photography and painting, producing artistic postcard images
for local venues, including
the Norman Rockwell Museum/Stockbridge, Ventfort Hall/Lenox, Canyon Ranch/Lenox, the Red lion Inn/Stockbridge, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health/Lenox, to name a few.
2020/21 I have recently received multiple grants to facilitate collage workshops utilizing recycled and upcycled materials.
Curation (and participation)/Personal
2019 auction fundraiser for Artscape, Pittsfield M
2018 auction fundraiser for Artscape, Pittsfield MA
2018 413Heart Music & Arts Festival, Arts Coordinator, Dalton MA
2017 413Heart Music & Arts Festival, Arts Coordinator, Dalton MA
2017 Chairity:Take a Seat fundraiser as part of the 10x10 festival in Pittsfield
2013 10X10 on 10 part of the 10X10 festival in Pittsfield
2013 Fresh the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield
2008 Alchemy Initiative, Co-founder
Teaching Experience: Faculty Member of IS183 teach yearly workshops at Bascom Lodge (drawing and collage)
July 2021, the Berkshire Project, workshop facilitator
Education/Certifications/Memberhips:
School of Visual Arts, NYC
additional classes at the Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC and
the Arts Student League, NYC. Cerified ArtClay instructor
member Berkshire Guild of Artists
Recent Exhibits
Currently group show Obsessions, the Dot, Pittsfield MA
June 2021 group show, Spaazi Gallery, Pittsfield MA
Dec 2020 Virtual Holiday Fair group show,IS183,Stockbridge MA
Sept 2020 Bike Walk Drive, art show around Pittsfield, MA
Summer, 2020 Pop-Up Show through the Wit Gallery, Lenox MA
Summer, 2019 Small Works Show, Welles Gallery, Lenox MA
Summer 2019 open studio, 50 Melville Street, Pittsfield MA
December 2018 group show, Holiday Art Show, the Stationery Factory Dalton MA
June 2018 group show, 5 at the Factory, the Stationery Factory Dalton MA
March 2018 group show, Artists in Action, fundraiser Dana Farber Newton MA
Nov/Dec 2017 invitational solo show, 366iPhone, Hotel on North Pittsfield MA
May 2017 juried group show, the BEAT Expo, the Stationery Factory Dalton MA
Nov 2017/Dec 2016 group show, Pop up Art Show. North St Pittsfield
May 2016 juried group show, the BEAT Expo, the Stationery Factory Dalton MA Feb/March 2016 juried group show, iMotiff, Hotel on North Pittsfield MA
2015-2016 exhibited primarily from my studio in NuArts North St, Pittsfield MA
Sept 2014 2 person show, Hermitage Gallery McLean VA
May 2014 invitational group show, Respringeration, Whit Gallery Pittsfield MA
Dec 2013 juried craft show, Handmade Holiday Festival Pittsfield MA
Aug 2013 invitational group show, Paste and Print, St Francis Gallery Lee MA
July 2013 solo exhibit, Gallery 25 Pittsfield MA
June 2013 juried group show, FRESH:Farm 2 Gallery,Lichtenstein Ctr,Pittsfield MA
April 2013 juried group photography show, Sohn Gallery Stockbridge MA
April 2013 juried group show, 10x10 on 10, Y Bar Pittsfield MA
Dec 2012 juried craft show, Handmade Holiday Festival Pittsfield MA
July 2012 solo exhibit, Brix Bistro and Wine Bar Pittsfield MA
Dec 2011 juried craft show, Handmade Holiday Festival Pittsfield MA
May 2011 solo exhibit, Childs Studio Arts Great Barrington Ma
Jan 2011 invitational exhibitor in decorator’s showcase, Ventfort Hall Lenox MA
Dec 2010 juried craft show, Handmade Holiday Festival Pittsfield MA
Dec 2010 solo trunk show, Classic Country Chatham NY
October 2010 group show, Think Pink, Colonial Theater Pittsfield MA
September 2010 invitational show, Paper Trail, Lichtenstein Center Pittsfield MA
August 2010 featured artist, Thorne W Stockbridge MA
Dec 2009 juried craft show, Handmade Holiday Festival Pittsfield MA
Dec 2009 silent auction for Haiti, Colonial Theater Pittsfield MA
July 2009 featured artist, Museum Facsimile Gallery Pittsfield MA
July 2008 featured artist, Art on the Lawn Stockbridge MA
July 2008 juried group show, ArtShow Pittsfield Pittsfield MA
June 2008 featured artist, public library Stockbridge MA
August 2007 featured artist, Museum Facsimile Gallery Pittsfield MA
July 2007 juried group show, ArtShow Pittsfield Pittsfield MA
July 2007 group show, Art on Main, Barnbrook Great Barrington MA
December 2006 juried group show, 10X10, Babylon Fine Art Housatonic MA
June, 2006 juried show, There Oughtta Be A Law, Art of the Game Pittsfield MA
March 2006 featured artist, Kismetspace Westport CT
October 2005 invitational group, show Winds of Change Cleveland OH
August 2005 juried group show, How’s It Made Monterey MA
July & Aug 2005 juried group show, ArtShow Amherst Pittsfield MA
July, 2004 featured artist, Miniature Theater Chester MA
June, 2004 produced. Berkshire J*ewe*L. for Sheeptacular
