About
Multimedia artist and documentarian Diana Greene uses inquiry and artistry to consider the social, cultural, and personal challenges inherent in contemporary life. Her award-winning work captures particular moments of the human condition through themes of community, place, identity, emotion, and memory. She is fundamentally a storyteller whose focus on the circumstances of her own life and the lives of others uncovers meaning and explores deeper connections both to our surrounding world and to the landscape within.
Diana’s dedication to mentoring young people inspires new creative writers, photographers, and filmmakers via curriculum she designed, which is used in classrooms locally and globally. For over a decade, she has worked advancing written and visual literary through photography, narrative, and self-portraiture. Her other classes include Writing as Discovery, Text + Context, documentary filmmaking, and visual storytelling.
Diana has collaborated in a teaching residency at The Newcomers School to aid newly arrived immigrants and political refugees. In 2017 and 2018, she was a Pulitzer Center grantee and collaborated with high school journalism students to produce two documentary films, Weaving Connections on globalization and Placing Identity about economic mobility. In 2019, she was granted an artist and teaching fellowship at the Artist in Residence program in Malta where she produced the photo narrative, Traces of Myself, in collaboration with college art students. The documentary she directed and produced, The Final Rummage, captured the ending of a 60-year community tradition. It’s a humorous and elegiac portrait of a ritual in its last dance that premiered at the 2015 RiverRun International Film Festival.
Working with Winston-Salem State University and the Center for the Study of Economic Mobility, Diana produced and directed two documentary films: Bus Stop Jobs and Home Stretch, which premiered in 2022 at the RiverRun International Film Festival.
Diana is a former CNN journalist and producer. She studied multimedia documentary at Duke University and earned an MFA in fiction from Arizona State University. For 12 years, she was a commentator at NPR station WFDD. Her photographs are exhibited internationally and featured in private and public collections, including the University of Melbourne and the City of Winston-Salem. She was a semifinalist in the Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery’s 2016 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. Her photography, workshops, and films have been funded by universities, K- 12 schools, museums, nonprofit organizations, and municipalities. She resides in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Diana is grateful to her mentors, to the National Parks Service and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts for fellowships and the gift of time, place, and creative nurture, and to arts councils near and far.
News + Projects
Still Photographer, A Little Prayer
2019: Spazju Kreattiv Artists' MalTeen Residency in Malta
No Wheels: Film explores limits of living without a car by Lisa O’Donnell for the Winston-Salem Journal
Documentary film Placing Identity blogpost featured on The Pulitzer Center.
Diana Greene's Text + Context in Blue Sky Days Lesson Plan featured in The Pulitzer Center's Top Ten Global News Lessons of 2017
Weaving Connections: A NewsArts Student Documentary (read)
Triad Arts podcast on Finding Home: Portraits of Courage by David Ford
Interview with Joe Mills (read)