Diane Burko

{{Short description|American painter (born 1945)}}

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Diane Burko (born 1945) is an American painter and photographer. She is based in Philadelphia and Bucks County, Pennsylvania.{{cite web|url=http://www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu/information/media/press-releases/artist-diane-burko-documents-beauty-%E2%80%93-and-depletion-%E2%80%93-polar-landsca|title=Artist Diane Burko Documents Beauty – and Depletion – of Polar Landscapes|website=Zimmerli Art Museum|publisher=Rutgers University|accessdate=August 12, 2013}} Her work addresses landscape, climate change and environmental activism.{{Cite news|url=http://glacierhub.org/2014/12/02/disappearing-glaciers-an-artist-activists-muse/|title=Disappearing Glaciers, an Artist-Activist's Muse – GlacierHub|date=December 2, 2014|work=GlacierHub|access-date=January 16, 2018|language=en-US}}

Biography

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Diane Burko was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1945. Burko received a B.S. in art history and painting from Skidmore College in 1966, and an M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1969. She is professor emeritus at the Community College of Philadelphia,{{Cite web|url=https://www.ccp.edu/about-us/news/press-release/history-making-celebrated-artists-come-together-colleges-50th|title=History In The Making: Celebrated Artists Come Together For The College's 50th Anniversary Art & Soul Gala To Help Fund Free Tuition Program {{!}} Community College of Philadelphia|website=www.ccp.edu|date=December 21, 2015|language=en|access-date=September 5, 2018}} and has taught at various schools across the country such as Princeton University, Arizona State University and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/northamericanwom00hellrich/page/59|title=North American women artists of the twentieth century : a biographical dictionary|date=1995|publisher=Garland Publishing, Inc|others=Heller, Jules., Heller, Nancy G.|isbn=0824060490|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/northamericanwom00hellrich/page/59 59–60]|oclc=31865530|url-access=registration}} She has served on the College Art Association board of directors.http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/caa-news-print-archive/caa-news-09-95.pdf CAA News, September/October 1995.

Burko was the founder of FOCUS, Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts, a two-month-long all city festival in 1974.{{Cite web |title=FOCUS. Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts. - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/view/36467724 |access-date=2022-06-24 |website=snaccooperative.org}}

Work

Burko's work has been shown at Locks Gallery, Cindy Lisica Gallery, LewAllen Gallery, Tufts University, the Michener Museum, the Bernstein Gallery at Princeton University,{{Cite news|url=http://wws.princeton.edu/news-and-events/events/item/politics-snow-ii|title=Politics of Snow II|date=September 1, 2013|work=Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs|access-date=September 4, 2018|language=en}} Rowan University Art Gallery,{{Cite news|url=https://thewhitonline.com/2018/03/arts-entertainment/environmental-artist-diane-burko-explores-climate-change-in-vast-and-vanishing/|title=Environmental artist Diane Burko explores climate change in 'Vast and Vanishing'|last=Morales|first=Maria|date=March 2, 2018|work=The Whit Online|access-date=September 4, 2018|language=en-US}} Walton Arts Center,{{Cite web|url=http://glacierhub.org/tag/walton-art-center/|title=Walton Art Center Archives – GlacierHub|last=Orlove|first=Ben|date=June 7, 2017|website=GlacierHub|language=en-US|access-date=September 4, 2018}} Zimmerli Art Museum, the Tang Museum,{{Cite web|url=https://www.healing-power-of-art.org/artist-diane-burko-raises-awareness-about-climate-destruction/|title=Artist Diane Burko Raises Awareness About Climate Destruction|website=www.healing-power-of-art.org|language=en-US|access-date=September 4, 2018}} the National Academy of Sciences,{{Cite web|url=http://www.cpnas.org/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/burko.html|title=Endangered: From Glaciers to Reefs|website=www.cpnas.org|access-date=September 4, 2018}} the American University Museum{{Cite web |title=Seeing Climate Change: Diane Burko, 2002-2021 |url=https://www.american.edu/cas/museum/2021/seeing-climate-change-diane-burko.cfm |access-date=2022-06-24 |website=American University |language=en}} in Washington, D.C., and the Royal Academy of Arts in London, UK.{{Cite web |date=June 16, 2022 |title=Royal Academy Production Asset |url=https://royal-academy-production-asset.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/36e17d08-33f2-40bd-88cc-be8a7439769f/Summer%20Exhibition%202022%20-%20Press%20Release%20June%202022.pdf }}

Burko's early work consisted of drawings and paintings of iconic American landscapes such as the Grand Canyon and Lake Powell, as well as international sources such as the French Alps. In 1977, while flying with Light and Space artist James Turrell in his Helio Courier over the Grand Canyon, Burko captured her first aerial photographs of the landscape.{{Cite web|url=http://www.percontra.net/archive/17burko.htm|title=Diane Burko, The Per Contra Interview with Miriam N. Kotzin|website=www.percontra.net|access-date=September 4, 2018}}{{Cite news|url=http://glacierhub.org/2014/12/02/disappearing-glaciers-an-artist-activists-muse/|title=Disappearing Glaciers, an Artist-Activist's Muse – GlacierHub|date=December 2, 2014|work=GlacierHub|access-date=September 4, 2018|language=en-US}} Burko's paintings draw from art historical sources such as the Hudson River School and the appropriation of landscape imagery in popular culture. Past subjects include the landscape of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the coast of California, the fjords of Scandinavia, and the volcanoes of Hawaii, Italy and Iceland. In 2000, this led to Burko's interest in volcanic tectonics and glacial geology, as well as climate change.{{Cite web|url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-diane-burko-17417#transcript|title=Oral history interview with Diane Burko, 2016 November 4–14|website=www.aaa.si.edu|language=en|access-date=September 4, 2018}}

Burko depicts scientific data through visual motifs, incorporating Landsat imagery, mapping data{{Cite book|title=Landscape into eco art : articulations of nature since the '60s|last=Cheetham|first=Mark A.|publisher=Penn State University Press|year=2018|isbn=9780271080031|location=University Park, Pennsylvania|oclc=1004957218}} and U.S.G.S. repeat photography archives.{{Cite book|title=Diane Burko : glacial shifts, changing perspectives : bearing witness to climate change|last=Ratcliff|first=Carter|publisher=KMW Studio|year=2017|isbn=9780998456409|location=New York}} From 2007 through 2011, Burko developed the project Politics of Snow, investigating the historical comparisons of global climate change through images culled from glacial geological data recorded throughout the world. Other works depict the same location seen from different points in time, showing the effects of climate change on a specific site – a method glaciologists call "repeats." Such photo-documents have been shot by scientists and field researchers at U.S. Geological Survey and Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University, such as David Arnold, Henry Brecher, Dan Fagre, Ulysses S. Grant IV, Karen Holzer, Carl Key, Bruce Molnia, Sidney Paige, Tad Pfeffer, Lonnie Thompson and Bradford Washburn. Judith E. Stein observes, "To my horror, I found myself adding my own mental image to each sequence, extrapolating from what [Burko] shows, thereby envisioning the next, un-depicted step in the warming process—our dystopic future."{{Cite news|url=https://judithestein.com/2010/02/01/diane-burko-the-politics-of-snow/|title=Diane Burko, The Politics of Snow|date=February 1, 2010|work=Judith E. Stein|access-date=September 5, 2018|language=en-US}}

Since 2013, Burko has embarked on research expeditions to various glaciers and reefs around the world. Through these locations, Burko explores the impacts of climate change, with particular emphasis on glacial melt and coral bleaching.{{Cite news|url=http://www.philly.com/philly/home/after-years-of-documenting-disappearing-glaciers-diane-burko-shifts-to-barrier-reefs-20170524.html?arc404=true|title=After years of documenting disappearing glaciers, Diane Burko shifts to barrier reefs|work=Philly.com|access-date=September 5, 2018}} In 2013, Burko traveled to Antarctica in January and the high Arctic in October. The latter was sponsored by the nonprofit organization The Arctic Circle, and was supported by a Fellowship in the Arts, awarded by The Independence Foundation in Philadelphia.Miguel Tavares,. "View Past Recipients – Independence Foundation". Independence Foundation. Retrieved January 16, 2018.{{Cite web|url=http://phila-wca.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-arctic-circle-residency.html|title=Philadelphia-WCA: The Arctic Circle Residency|last=Cheney|first=Laura Petrovich-|date=November 1, 2013|website=Philadelphia-WCA|access-date=September 5, 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://instaar.colorado.edu/people/diane-burko/|title=Diane Burko {{!}} People {{!}} INSTAAR {{!}} CU-Boulder|website=instaar.colorado.edu|language=en|access-date=September 5, 2018}} These expeditions led to a body of work entitled "Polar Investigations." In 2015, Burko flew from Ushuaia to El Calafate to discover the Patagonian ice field of Argentina. In 2017, her exploration of landscapes affected by climate change continued with New Zealand's Fox and Franz Josef Glacier, along with The Great Barrier Reef. This experience marked a shift in her practice from glaciers to reefs.

In January 2018, Diane Burko travelled to American Samoa, Oahu, and Honolulu with the non-profit project "Kai 'Apapa," a multimedia exploration of American coral reef systems, in collaboration with climatologist Samiah Moustafa, composer/video artist Christine Southworth, and composer/clarinetist Evan Ziporyn. The project aims to raise awareness of the rapid changes to coral reef systems, and present the scientific ramifications through art and performance. The project has received a nearly $31,450 grant from the MAP Fund.{{Cite news|url=https://mapfundblog.org/kai-apapa-of-the-reefs-map-2017/|title=Kai 'Apapa: Of the Reefs (MAP 2017)|date=May 2, 2017|work=MAP Fund|access-date=September 4, 2018|language=en-US}}

Independently, Burko's recent work includes video and lenticular pieces based on footage from this expedition, alongside paintings of reefs. Following the record-breaking wildfires intensified by deforestation{{Cite web |last=Service |first=Purdue News |title=Deforestation drove massive Amazon rainforest fires of 2019 |url=https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2020/Q4/deforestation-drove-massive-amazon-rainforest-fires-of-2019.html |access-date=2022-06-24 |website=www.purdue.edu |language=en}} of the Amazon Rainforest in 2019, Burko has pivoted the focus of her paintings towards the Amazon Basin and the relationship between extractive industry and ecological degradation.{{Cite web |date=2021-11-23 |title='Seeing Climate Change' with artist-activist Diane Burko at American University Museum |url=https://www.theartblog.org/2021/11/seeing-climate-change-with-artist-activist-diane-burko-at-american-university-museum/ |access-date=2022-06-24 |website=Artblog |language=en}}

Activism

Burko has spoken about the role of art in climate discourse at universities and conferences including the American Geophysical Union, the Geological Society of America,{{Cite web|url=https://today.rowan.edu/home/events/3-08-2018/gallery-reception-diane-burko-vast-and-vanishing|title=Gallery reception for Diane Burko: Vast and Vanishing {{!}} Rowan Today|website=today.rowan.edu|language=en|access-date=September 5, 2018}} the Atlantic Council (Washington, D.C.),{{Cite news|url=http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/events/past-events/art-science-arctic-climate-change|title=Art & Science: An Exhibition of Arctic Climate Change|last=Council|first=The Atlantic|work=Atlantic Council|access-date=September 5, 2018|language=en-gb}} the Michener Museum,{{Cite web|url=https://www.michenerartmuseum.org/mam_exhibitions/diane-burko-flow/|title=Diane Burko: Flow {{!}} James A. Michener Art Museum|website=www.michenerartmuseum.org|language=en-US|access-date=September 5, 2018}} the Zimmerli Museum,{{Cite news|url=https://whyy.org/segments/documenting-climate-change-through-art/|title=Documenting climate change through art : The Pulse : WHYY|work=WHYY|access-date=September 5, 2018|language=en-US}} The Painting Center (New York City),{{Cite web|url=https://www.thepaintingcenter.org/shifting-ecologies/|title=Shifting Ecologies|website=The Painting Center|language=en-US|access-date=September 5, 2018}} the University of Colorado, Boulder.{{Cite news|url=https://cuindependent.com/2014/10/30/diane-burko/56872/|title=Painter and photographer Diane Burko uses art to discuss geological events|date=October 3, 2014|work=CU Independent|access-date=September 5, 2018|language=en-US}} Burko's 2018 exhibition at Rowan University was accompanied by the panel "Art and Science Perspectives on Climate Change," hosted in partnership with the School of Earth and Environment and Rowan University Art Gallery.{{Cite news|url=https://thewhitonline.com/2018/04/arts-entertainment/artists-and-scientists-converge-to-tackle-climate-change-in-campus-talk/|title=Artists and scientists converge to tackle climate change in campus talk|last=Lonsdorf|first=Tara|date=April 1, 2018|work=The Whit Online|access-date=September 5, 2018|language=en-US}}

Collections

Burko's work is in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Woodmere Art Museum, the Delaware Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago,{{Cite web|url=http://www.locksgallery.com/exhibitions/diane-burko2/installation-views?view=slider|title=Diane Burko – Exhibitions – Locks Gallery|website=www.locksgallery.com|language=en|access-date=September 5, 2018}} the James A. Michener Art Museum,{{Cite news|url=https://bucksco.michenerartmuseum.org/bucksartists/artist/393/|title=Bucks County Artists {{!}} James A. Michener Art Museum {{!}} Bucks County Artists|work={{!}} James A. Michener Art Museum {{!}} Bucks County Artists|access-date=September 5, 2018|language=en-US}} the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, the Hood Museum,{{Cite web|url=https://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/explore/collection/featured-collections/environmental-art|title=Environmental Art {{!}} Hood Museum|website=hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu|date=March 2018 |language=en|access-date=September 5, 2018}} the Tucson Museum of Art,{{Cite web|url=https://sites.rowan.edu/artgallery/_docs/diane-burko_web-catalog_rowan-university.pdf|title=Diane Burko: Vast and Vanishing Catalog|last=Salvante|first=Mary|website=Rowan University Art Gallery}} the Phillips Collection, the National Academy of Sciences, Everson Museum of Art, Montclair Art Museum, the David Owsley Museum of Art, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.{{Cite web |date=2021 |title=Encaustic Art Institute - Diane Burko Resume |url=https://www.eainm.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/DIANE-BURKO-RESUME.pdf }}

Burko was represented by Locks Gallery from 1976 through 2012. From 2012 to 2019 she was represented by Cindy Lisica Gallery, where she mounted her 2016 solo exhibition, "Traces of Change."{{Cite web|url=https://www.houstonpress.com/event/diane-burko-traces-of-change-8235464|title=Diane Burko: Traces of Change|website=Houston Press|access-date=September 5, 2018}}{{Cite web|url=http://cindy-lisica.squarespace.com/exhibitions/#/traces-of-change-diane-burko/|title=EXHIBITIONS|website=Cindy Lisica Gallery|language=en-US|access-date=September 5, 2018}} Burko is currently working independently.{{Cite web |last=Ratcliff |first=Carter |date=2021-11-11 |title=Visualizing Climate Change Through Abstract Painting |url=http://hyperallergic.com/690121/visualizing-climate-change-through-abstract-expressionism/ |access-date=2022-06-24 |website=Hyperallergic |language=en-US}}

Awards

In 1976, Ivan Karp offered Burko a "Dealer's Showcase" at OK Harris Gallery in New York, NY, which attracted the attention of critic David Bourdon, who reviewed her solo exhibition in The Village Voice.Bourdon, David, "There's a New Kid or Two in Town," Village Voice, June 1977. Critics and curators who have written about Burko's work include: Lawrence Alloway, Roberta Fallon, Pat Hogan,{{Cite news|title=Climate Control|last=Hogan|first=Pat|date=March 5, 2006|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer}} Leslie Kaufman,{{Cite news|title=Women's Art Is Never Done|last=Kaufman|first=Leslie|date=Fall 2006|work=Inside}} Cate McQuaid,{{Cite news|title=Touching the Void|last=McQuaid|first=Cate|date=March 19, 2006|work=The Boston Globe}} Preston McLane,{{Cite book|title=Terrestrial forces|date=2004|publisher=Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts|others=McLane, Preston., Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts.|isbn=1889282154|location=Tallahassee, Fla.|oclc=60379280}} Edith Newhall,{{Cite news|title=Galleries: Paintings depicting the effects of global warming|last=Newhall|first=Edith|date=February 28, 2010|work=Philadelphia Inquirer}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20110724_Galleries___Painter_shows_work_in_a_new_medium__Photography.html?arc404=true|title=Galleries: Painter shows work in a new medium: Photography|work=Philly.com|access-date=September 5, 2018}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20140119_Galleries__Edith_Newhall_s_Galleries.html?arc404=true|title=Galleries: Visions of Iceland, the moon, and playtime|last=Newhall|first=Edith|work=Philly.com|access-date=September 5, 2018}} John Perreault,{{Cite book|title=Diane Burko, reflects : paintings from Giverny, November 5 – December 7, 1990.|last=Perreault|first=John|publisher=Marian Locks Gallery|year=1990|isbn=0962379964|location=Philadelphia|oclc=23813496}} Carter Ratcliff, Libby Rosof,{{Cite web|url=https://www.theartblog.org/2010/02/burko-and-apfelbaum-power-women-at-locks/|title=Burko and Apfelbaum, Power Women at Locks|last=Rosof|first=Libby|date=February 18, 2010}} Julie Sasse,{{Cite web|url=https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/the-boss-ditch/Content?oid=1085112|title=The Boss Ditch|last=Regan|first=Margaret|website=Tucson Weekly|language=en|access-date=September 5, 2018}} Amy Schlegel,{{Cite web|url=https://artgallery.tufts.edu/documents/PR2014seeingGlacialTime.pdf|title=Press Release: Seeing Glacial Time|date=January 30, 2014}} Ed Sozanski,{{Cite news|title=Diane Burko at Marian Locks|last=Sozanski|first=Edward J.|date=April 7, 1988|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer}}{{Cite news|title=New Directions and Some New Artists|last=Sozanski|first=Edward J.|date=October 20, 2000|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer}}{{Cite news|title=Painters and watery inspiration|last=Sozanski|first=Ed|date=July 6, 2008|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer: Arts and Entertainment}} and Michael Tomor.{{Cite web|url=https://www.michenerartmuseum.org/mam_exhibitions/artists-of-the-commonwealth-realism-in-pennsylvania-painting/|title=Artists of the Commonwealth: Realism in Pennsylvania Painting {{!}} James A. Michener Art Museum|website=www.michenerartmuseum.org|language=en-US|access-date=September 5, 2018}}{{Cite web|url=http://old.post-gazette.com/ae/20010526thomas6.asp|title=Art Review: Artists from state provide exciting show|website=old.post-gazette.com|access-date=September 5, 2018}}

In 1989, the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund awarded Burko a grant to fund a six-month residency in Giverny, France.Residence Fellowship at Giverny, Reader's Digest Foundation, April – September 1989. The paintings which resulted from this residency met with positive reviews in the United States. The Washington Postpraised Burko's "distinctive approach to composition."Wilson, Janet, "Diane Burko's Lasting Impressions," The Washington Post, July 6, 1991, Illust.

In 1993 Burko was awarded a residency at the Rockefeller Study and Conference Center in Bellagio{{cite web|title=The Mix|url=http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/uploads/files/f514b4c5-6297-4611-bc9a-f946b46a0fea.pdf|publisher=Rockefeller Study and Conference Center in Bellagio|year=1993|accessdate=February 4, 2014|archive-date=July 1, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100701155832/http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/uploads/files/f514b4c5-6297-4611-bc9a-f946b46a0fea.pdf|url-status=dead}} {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/858108898 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/854934484 cite #9 – verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. User:GreenC bot/Job 18}} where she painted en plein air for five weeks. This culminated in her 1994 Locks Gallery exhibition, "Luci ed Ombra di Bellagio" – "The Light and Shadow of Bellagio." Robert Rosenblum, who first took an interest in Burko's work in 1976, wrote the accompanying catalog essay.{{Cite web|url=http://www.locksgallery.com/exhibitions/diane-burko-luci-ed-ombra-di-bellagio|title=Diane Burko: Luci ed ombra di Bellagio – Exhibitions – Locks Gallery|website=www.locksgallery.com|language=en|access-date=September 5, 2018}}

Burko has received two NEA Visual Arts Fellowships (1985, 1991);National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship, 1991–92, 1985–86 two Individual Artists Grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (1981, 1989); a Lila Acheson Wallace Foundation Residence Fellowship (1989);Miguel Tavares, "View Past Recipients – Independence Foundation". Independence Foundation. Retrieved January 16, 2018. a Rockefeller Foundation Residence Fellowship (1993); and the Bessie Berman $50,000 Grant, awarded by the Leeway Foundation in Philadelphia (2000).Bessie Berman Grant in Painting, The Leeway Foundation, 2000.

In 1996, Burko won a $200,000 Public Art commission sponsored by the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia{{Cite web|url=http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=20290&b=stedelijk#.W49MCJNKhQJ|title=Dennis Oppenheim Public Art Project To Be Dedicated|last=Villarreal|first=Ignacio|website=artdaily.com|language=en|access-date=September 5, 2018}} and the Marriott Hotel.{{Cite news|title="One Percent" Public Art Commission Awarded by the Redevelopment Authority of Philadelphia|date=1996|work=Marriott Hotel}} The result was a three-year project: Wissahickon Reflections, which comprises over 1,400 square feet (130 m2) of paintings, with one single panel measuring 11.5 feet (3.5 m) by 32 feet (9.8 m).{{Cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/1998/05/18/newscolumn2.html?page=all|title=Integrating public art with city's sightseers|last=Kasrel|first=Deni|date=May 18, 1998|website=www.bizjournals.com|access-date=September 5, 2018}}

Burko has been an active member in the Feminist art movement. In 1974 she founded the all city festival "Focus: Philadelphia Focus on Women in the Visual Arts – Past and Present." She was awarded the WCA/CAA Lifetime Achievement Award in February 2011.{{Cite web|url=http://citypaper.net/article.php?PHILLY-ARTISTS-Diane-Burko-s-Lifetime-Achievement-6376|title=PHILLY ARTISTS: Diane Burko's Lifetime Achievement :: Blogs :: Critical Mass :: Philadelphia City Paper|date=February 2, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222195348/http://citypaper.net/article.php?PHILLY-ARTISTS-Diane-Burko-s-Lifetime-Achievement-6376|access-date=September 5, 2018|archive-date=February 22, 2014}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.nationalwca.org/awards/currentLAA.php|title=WCA Lifetime Achievement Award|website=www.nationalwca.org|access-date=September 5, 2018}} In 2019, Burko was awarded the Fleisher Founder's Award, honoring her "contributions as an artist, educator, and environmentalist" and her "commitment to providing access to the arts."{{Cite web |date=May 2019 |title=Celebrate Fleisher! 30th Founder's Award Honoring Diane Burko |url=https://fleisher.org/event/celebrate-fleisher-30th-founders-award-honoring-diane-burko/ |access-date=2022-07-12 |website=Fleisher Art Memorial}}

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