Diana Stelin: Art/Education/Design
About
Diana Stelin: Art/Education/Design is a Brookline creative hub run by artist and TEDx speaker Diana Stelin, combining an art academy, a contemporary gallery, summer camps, retreats and corporate workshops. Classes serve children and adults, and the gallery shows and sells original work. The curriculum draws on nervous-system regulation research, an idea Stelin explored in her TEDx talk “Creativity as an Antidote to Burnout,” with the goal of leaving students calmer and more confident as well as more skilled.
Stelin’s story starts with immigration: she left Moldova at thirteen and found a sense of belonging in a converted factory of artist studios in Newark. She later studied painting at Cornell, including a semester in Rome learning the encaustic technique. After searching without success for a serious art program for her own son, she built one, the Plein-Air Art Academy, which grew into a gallery and community. Her work has since been shown at a Venice Biennale satellite exhibition.
What to Know
- Thousands of students have taken classes with Stelin since 2010.
- Partners include Park School, Shady Hill, Brimmer & May and Fessenden, along with Brigham & Women’s Hospital.
- Corporate workshops are offered to help teams build creativity and navigate change.
- The art classes are described as award-winning.
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