Diane Ziemski, Little Rock
Diane Williams Ziemski lives in Little Rock with her husband Larry. She was raised in Helena and graduated from UCA with a degree in Home Economics. She taught school in Dumas for 25 years. She was Technology Coordinator for the Adult Education Section of the Arkansas Department of Workforce Education, until her retirement in 2002. It was then that she began fine art painting, primarily with watercolors, and is self-taught. Her sons and their wives Dr. Bryan Yarnell and Dr. Christie Burnett-Yarnell, and Dr. David Yarnell, and Dr Katherine Yarnell, all live in Little Rock, and practice medicine at UAMS.
Diane has served as Treasurer and Webmaster of Mid-Southern Watercolorists (MSW) and was a board member and Newsletter Editor of the Arkansas League of Artists (ALA). She is listed in the Arkansas Artist Registry of the Arkansas Arts Council and had a watercolor painting in the 2005 Small Works on Paper, and one in the 2006 Small Works on Paper. She is a member of Corps d'Arte.
Diane has had exhibits at St. Vincent's Womens Center in the St.Vincent Doctors Hospital in Little Rock, and at Chameleon Art Glass Gallery on Kavanaugh. Her work has been shown in Oval Gallery, Helena National Bank Watercolor Show, Pulaski Heights Picassos, The Arkansas Repertory Theater, The Rep's Artworks, Cantrell Gallery MSW Summer Exhibit, MSW Winter Exhibit at North Central Arkansas Art Gallery in Fairfield Bay and Garvan Gardens in Hot Springs, ALA Annual Exhibit at Layman Library, North Little Rock Mayor's Show, Galaxy Gallery, Andina Café in the River Market, and Artists in the Forest. She was juried into the 2007 MSW Annual Exhibition held at the Cox Creative Center in Little Rock, AR. She had a painting in an exhibit at the Clinton Presidential Library in the summer of 2007.
She is currently showing at the Arkansas Art Gallery in North Little Rock, AR, and Denali Coffeeshop in Cabot.
One of her paintings was selected to appear in the 2008 Arkansas Artists Calendar which is sponsored by the Arkansas Governor's mansion Association. She also has had one of her paintings selected to be the 2007 Poster for the Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival in Helena, Arkansas, in October.
Her originals are in collections in Baltimore, New York City, Washington, D.C., New Orleans, Texas, Pennsylvania, Alaska and Arkansas. She was interviewed for an article in the October 2005 issue of AY magazine.
2007 Arkansas Blues and Heritage
Festival Poster
