Hannah Hoch

Hannah Höch was born Anna Therese Johanne Höch^[1] in Gotha, Germany. In 1912 she began classes at the School of Applied Arts in Berlin under the guidance of glass designer Harold Bergen.^[2] She chose the curriculum glass design and graphic arts, rather than fine arts, to please her father.^[3] In 1914, at the start of World War I, she left the school and returned home to Gotha to work with the Red Cross.^[4] In 1915 she returned to school, entering the graphics class of Emil Orlik at the National Institute of the Museum of Arts and Crafts.^[5] Also in 1915, Höch began an influential friendship with Raoul Hausmann, a member of the Berlin Dada movement.^[6] Höch's involvement with the Berlin Dadaists began in earnest in 1919. After her schooling, she worked in the handicrafts department for Ullstein Verlag (The Ullstein Press), designing dress and embroidery patterns for Die Dame (The Lady) and Die Praktische Berlinerin (The Practical Berlin Woman). The influence of this early work and training can be seen in her later work involving references to dress patterns and textiles. From 1926 to 1929 she lived and worked in the Netherlands. Höch made many influential friendships over the years, with Kurt Schwitters and Piet Mondrian among others. Höch, along with Hausmann, was one of the first pioneers of the art form that would come to be known as photomontage.

Frank Stella

Stella was born in Malden, Massachusetts, to parents of Italian descent.^[1] After attending high school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, he attended Princeton University, where he majored in history and met Darby Bannard and Michael Fried. Early visits to New York art galleries influenced his artist development, and his work was influenced by the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline. Stella moved to New York in 1958, after his graduation. He is one of the most well-regarded postwar American painters still working today. He is heralded for creating abstract paintings that bear no pictorial illusions or psychological or metaphysical references in twentieth-century painting

Dianne Millsap

Diane Millsap is a full-time, professional artist.  Born in Southern California, and raised in the Chicago area, she and her husband now live in rural northern Illinois.  She received her formal art training at Western Illinois University and from her mother, an accomplished watercolor artist.  After a career in furniture design, she now paints full time. 

Over the past decade, Diane has painted, sketched and photographed the mysterious and beautiful city of New Orleans.  It has become the main focus of her work, and she and her husband have made it their favorite travel destination.  In addition to her original oils, many of her New Orleans street and jazz scenes are now in print.
As her art of New Orleans grows in popularity, collectors of her work have sent her photos, shared family stories, and welcomed her on her visits.  As she says, "I have become enchanted with New Orleans because it offers and endless flow of images to paint.  This city has a depth of soul and a love of life that reaches out to everyone."
Diane's paintings hang in many private and corporate collections across the country and abroad. Her style is constantly evolving, but a love of color and emotional expression is a common thread which runs through each
piece.  Her art is protected by US copyright law and reproduction, in any form, must have her expressed written consent.