Diane Vera-Ureño received both her Bachelor’s and Master’s in Art Education with an emphasis in Printmaking at the University of Texas at El Paso. Upon finishing her bachelor’s, she worked at the El Paso Museum of Art. Working in the museum sparked her 14 year career teaching high school art while balancing her art pursuits. As an art teacher Diane has mentored her students through many accolades including guiding her students to be awarded Gold Keys at the New Mexico Scholastic Art Awards and Gold Seals at the Texas Visual Arts Scholastic Event. While teaching she has worked to maintain her art career. Her artwork has been supported through various programs such as the Artist’s Incubator Program, funded by the Museum Cultural Affairs Division, the Caldo Collective, a grassroots artist funding organization, and the Green Hope Project. Her portfolio focus has been primarily printmaking but has grown from mural painting to ceramics. Through the Green Hope Project’s Racial Harmony call for art she was selected to paint a mural on the United States-Mexico border in her hometown of El Paso, Texas. This past year, Ms. Vera-Ureno received the place of Honorable Mention in Silver City’s Southwest Print Fiesta and was recently selected to display a work in the Silver City CLAY festival. Diane enjoys creating her work through investigation and she has discovered a pull to community and social artwork. She vacillates between pur mark making and the discovery of stories. The questions she aims to discover through her work are, how does one become who they are and how do you tell their story through mark making? These are questions she seeks to answer in her work through printmaking, painting, and ceramics. As she progresses in her career, she enjoys the balance of being a part of different worlds, ink, paint, clay.

Diane is based in El Paso, TX. For business inquiries, feel free to contact her.