Digho

After Diane’s first Photoshop class at Bethpage High School, she knew she would wind up in the digital art field.  In a conceptual art class at Long Island University CW Post, the idea of digho began with an immediate connection to her now business partners, Maria and Aghogho.  After graduating from CW Post with a BFA in Digital Art and Design in 2003 and taking a year off from school to run Aghogho’s independent bookstore, the Village Bookshoppe, she was accepted into Pratt Institute where she received her MS in Communication Design.  Directly following her final semester she was promoted into the Creative Department at Newsday and worked as a part of their art team for five years.  The next 15 years with digho has been an ever growing, ever changing experience of art, design, entrepreneurship and local community advocacy.  Beyond design, branding and marketing Diane and Maria have created digho museMARKET, dighoPAURA, digho between the LAYERS workshops and dighoOUTLET.  Some of her favorite community events digho is a part of is the Huntington Village ArtWalk, Huntington Holiday Spectacular and the PUBlic Art Crawl she spearheaded through the Huntington Chamber.

Some of Diane’s involvements and awards to note include a BOLI Gold Certificate of Excellence (Student Competition) in 2000, Excellence in Mixed Media Award from CW Post Fine Art Department in 2003, PAURA member since 2004, an Installer for the NYC art installation, The Gates, by world famous artists Christo and Jeanne Claude in 2005, Ms. Moxxie Mentee of the Moxxie Foundation from 2011-2014 and Jr Moxxie Mentor 2021-2023.  She was an honoree of Celebrate Long Island’s Young Professionals in 2011, Leadership Huntington Foundation Class of 2016 graduate, Co-Chair of the Young Professionals committee from 2016-19 as well as a Board Member of the Huntington Township Chamber of Commerce since 2016.  Most recently she founded and CoChairs the Arts & Experiences Committee and serves as the Vice Chair on the Board since 2024.  Diane began teaching Intro to Graphic Design in the Fall of 2023 at her alma mater, CW Post.

Diane is a lifetime resident of Long Island and now resides back in Bethpage with her husband Mike, their daughters Rose, Stefania and Teresa but most importantly with her Fox Red Lab, Chili.  She is passionate about family, friends, food and unique creative expression.