Christa Diepenbrock Ziman, MFA will be teaching Drawing II at the Spring Creek campus and Design I at the Central Park Campus. She received her Bachelors of Art at Hunter College in New York City in studio art. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree at Texas Women's University in painting.

Her work consists of small personal hand-made collage studies and life size paintings that explore the complex emotions surrounding lovers kept silent by their home's walls. Her collages are a combination of craft papers, fabric and hand drawn figures. The large paintings abstract the figured human by combining fabric and oil.

Her work has been exhibited at Local Color Gallery, Bath House Cultural Center in Dallas, Texas and MainSite Gallery in Norman, Oklahoma, as well as in various New York Galleries, such as Feral Gallery and Stephen Gang Gallery. Her work was also be included in a group show in North Germany in December 2008.

Instructor Website

Drawing II Syllabus

Christa is currently showing Inverted Space, a collection of recent figurative collages. The exhibition is hosted by the Visual Arts League of Allen (VALA) at the Blue House Gallery in Allen.

Exhibition Dates: January 16 - February 13, 2009

Artist Reception: Friday, January 16, 7 - 9pm

Artist Demonstration: Saturday, January 24 4 - 5pm

Exhibition Press Release