Diana McClure is a Brooklyn-based writer and artist who works in photography, multimedia, writing and web-based projects. Diana’s work explores the liberation of thought, spiritual agency, women, beauty, social justice, and urban culture through the layering of multiple narratives.  She is a graduate of Columbia University (BA) and The New School for Social Research (MA).

In 2011 she had a solo show in Miami, Cosmic Sheness; contributed an essay, The Metaphysics of Lynching, to the University of San Diego Visual Studies art journal pros*;  and, co-curated an exhibition and programming for the Younity art collective, Sarah Lawrence College and the Yonkers Public Library. From 2009-10 Diana worked as a professional development and programming consultant for Queens Council on the Arts and other art-related organizations. In 2009 she was also a member of the Curatorial Committee for Photo Miami, a contemporary art fair for photo-based art, video & new media, and profiled Brooklyn artists in the Living Arts column for the NewYorkTimes.com/LOCAL as part of a New York Times experimental project on hyperlocal and collaborative journalism.

From 2007-2009 she founded Cultureserve.net, a global art + culture news website that was a 2008 Finalist for a Creative Capital l Warhol Foundation – Arts Writers Grant. Cultureserve featured women artists, street art and arts activism in a global context. Diana’s web-based projects began online in 2003 with an experimental monthly column, Pimp Metaphysics: Counter Intelligence, on urban art, entertainment and capitalism that culminated in two text/photo web installations on Evilmonito.com in winter 2004 and spring 2005.

Diana has also written for Art Asia Pacific, Uptown, Vibe, DaWire.com and The Studio Museum in Harlem magazine among others. She has received grants/fellowships from The New School for Social Research, The Mellon Foundation, and CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism. Her photographic work has appeared in The Philadelphia African American Museum, The Los Angeles Times,  NYMag.com, Judy Chicago’s Envisioning the Future project, Crewest LA, Invisible NYC and galleries across the United States.

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