past projects

artist residencies, community history, research, and curatorial work

that explore and connect us to place, home, and time

presenting the Women’s History Month talk at Fruitlands Museum, 2020, in front of curator Shana Dumont Garr’s gorgeous show

Diana’s work combines design research, archival and material culture, and oral history methodologies with creative practices in writing, CEREMONY, and INSTALLATION. She is a student of many fields, committed to a fundamental APPROACH OF interdisciplinarY inquiry and reverence for land. she holds a Masters of Urban Planning and Design and a Masters in Landscape Studies (INCLUDING COMPLETED DOCTORAL COURSEWORK AND GENERAL EXAMS) from Harvard University, and a MFA in Nonfiction Creative Writing from Bennington College.

She is currently working ON A NONFICTION MANUSCRIPT about women’s, personal, and natural history in new england, AND A COLLECTION OF research design TRAINING MATERIALS, funded by the national endowment for the humanities and history cambridge.

RECENT WORK (2019-PRESENT)

ARCHIVAL REVIVAL REVENGE

ARtist residency AT BROWN UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR PUBLIC HUMANITIES, 2023

THE ART AND LIFE OF MABEL LOOMIS TODD

and other community history work as visiting curator of AMHERST HISTOrical society, 2022

ANN SISTERS : THE LOST LIBRARY OF LATONA

research residency at “Visionary new england,” deCORDOVA ART MUSEUM, 2020-1

deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, “Visionary New England” October 2020-March 2021. Photo by Julia Featheringill.

deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, “Visionary New England” October 2020-March 2021. Photo by Julia Featheringill.

researcH, media, and writing

I served as an expert on this documentary about the history of Haymarket, produced by Historic New England

EARLIER WORK (2010-2019)

doing history curator, history cambridge

2016-2020

as Doing History Curator I collaborated to design and moderate public conversations on belonging, community engagement, labor, and housing in Cambridge, and to develop workshops and research trainings for HC staff, interns, and community members.

(video) with Karilyn Crockett, discussing community activism

(video) with Eva Martin-Blythe, discussing the history of the Cambridge YWCA

opening meeting with commenting scholars

oral history roundtable, Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House, 2019

PRACTICE SPACE DESIGN STUDIO

a neighborhood storefront for art and humanities, cambridge MA, 2016-19

we produced publications, hosted visiting artists, created exhibitions and produced community events. with co-owner and founder, Nicole Lattuca

interview clips from featured artists :

PAUSE : INTERVIEWS WITH ARTISTS ON PLACE AND PRACTICE

2014-2019

Adele Stafford compares the flow state in long distance running with what she achieves in weaving, and how it produces "good clean cloth."

OUR RIVERSIDE TEEN SUMMER PROGRAM

at CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER 2015-2019

with interns, instructors, and collaborators including Nicole, Catherine, Annie, Cecelia, and Aly

interviews by youth of local figures and elders, 2015-2018

Youth interviews from 2015-2018

hack the hmnh

This weeklong workshop exposed Harvard students from many disciplines to the field of museum studies, by giving them the opportunity to create imaginative installations in the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

SHIP TO SHORE : THE NEW BEDFORD WORKING WATERFRONT FESTIVAL

As Mass Humanities Scholar-in-Residence I transformed 10 years of interview tape into an online exhibition, developed interpretive material, and helped to create a business plan for a permanent heritage center, which has now been thriving in the heart of New Bedford for almost a decade.