VIRTUAL LECTURES & VIDEO INTERVIEWS

(re)FOCUS Festival Takes a Renewed Look at Women’s Art, You Oughta Know, WHYY, Aired March 31, 2024.

Panel Discussion: Diane Burko, Nicolo Gentile & Kristen Neville Taylor, Hicks Art Center Gallery, Bucks County Community College, Newton, PA, February 28, 2024 at 5:30pm.

Lecture at Dina Wind Foundation: (re)FOCUS1974 x 2024: Women Artists Then, Intersectional Artists Now. March 2, 2024.

THEN: A city-wide arts program that occurred in Spring 1974, “FOCUS: Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts”, shone a spotlight on the underrepresented achievements of women artists.

NOW: The Dina Wind Art Foundation is proud to host 1974 x 2024: Women Artists Then, Intersectional Artists Now, a roundtable discussion featuring women, LGBTQIA+, and BIPOC artists, curators, and community leaders. The conversation will explore each panelist's personal experience navigating the art world, whether the artworld has improved for women artists in the past 50 years, and what is the current state of the scene.

Diane Burko on the CAA Chicago panel “A (re) FOCUS: One City's Exhibitions Linking Past, Present, and Future Art Histories,” February 16, 2024.

(re)FOCUS 2024 Panel, with Moderator Judith Brodsky and Panelists Diane Burko, Cynthia Carlson, Joyce Kozloff, Barbara Zucker, Isa Matisse, and Wit Lopez. January 25, 2024

ArtShow Interview with Craig Stover, November 14, 2023

Diane Burko lectures at Towson University at the opening of exhibit DISordered Systems, February 9, 2023.

Regionalism, Surrealism, and Climate Change, lecture at Owsley Museum, Ball State University, Muncie Indiana, October 13, 2022.

Art & Activism: A Conversation with Joe Baker & Diane Burko, Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA, September 16, 2022, 1:00 to 2:00 pm

DAG: Design Advocacy Group talk, March 24, 2022. Diane’s presentation begins around 7:00.

Understanding our Climate Emergency through Art and Aesthetics — Pompeu Fabra University - Barcelona, December 10, 2021. Diane Burko’s discussion begins at 00:43:33.

Gallery Talk: Diane Burko's "Seeing Climate Change" - October 12, 2021. Artist and climate activist Diane Burko and curators Mary D. Garrard and Norma Broude discussed Burko’s exhibition "Seeing Climate Change." Moderated by Alana Quinn, Cultural Programs, National Academy of Sciences. Learn more about the exhibition.

Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences, September 23, 2021. A conversation about Art, Empathy, and Climate Change, with the participation of Diane Burko.

International School of Hamburg, April 22, 2021

The Feminist Art Project (TFAP) Symposium on Ecofeminisms, Friday, February 12, 2021. Diane Burko’s lecture explored the intersection between feminism, the visual arts, and the environment to help us make sense of the fraught relationship between contemporary humans and the earth, and to ponder ways forward. TFAP@CAA 2021 was presented in conjunction with the 109th College Art Association (CAA) conference. Diane Burko’s lecture begins at minute 51:00 of this video.

Call to Action Through Beauty: Making the Visceral Visual, February 2021

American Geophysical Union, December 8, 2020. Diane Burko delivers a virtual lecture at the AGU’s Fall Conference about the intersection of art and science related to Climate Change.

Virtual Studio Visit with Diane Burko, November 18, 2020. Zoom into the Center City Philadelphia studio of "Rising Tides" artist Diane Burko. Burko is joined by exhibition curator Laura Turner Igoe, Ph.D., for an in-depth conversation on the artist’s practice, methods, and all things art making.

Virtual Educators Open House, November 10, 2020, with special guest artist speaker, Diane Burko. Hosted by the Michener Art Museum, sponsored by PSEA and CAPS.

Diane Burko moderates a panel discussion with artist/activists Stacy Levy and Eve Mosher in conjunction with the FEMA: Fear Environmental Mayhen Ahead exhibit at Icebox Project Space o November 6, 2020.

October 25, 2020
Artist Diane Burko delivers a keynote lecture about her practice as a response to climate change for Climanosco's Dear 2050 Conference. Videos of all the lectures in the conference can be found in this link.

October 15, 2020
Diane Burko and Marguerita Hagan in Conversation about the Future of Art and Climate Activism

PAFA, June 16, 2020. Join Museum Director Brooke Davis Anderson for a conversation about creativity during COVID-19 with Philadelphia artists Diane Burko and Sarah McEneaney.

June 4, 2020
Diane Burko joins Museum of Sonoma County Executive Director and Curator of Art, Jeff Nathanson, for a conversation about her work, career, and the role artists can play in environmental activism

Encaustic Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM, May 22 2020. Juror Diane Burko's notes on the 2020 Global Warming is REAL National Encaustic/Wax Juried Exhibition presented by the Encaustic Art Institute/Museum of Encaustic Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Delaware Art Museum, May 21, 2020. Curator Margaret Winslow talks with Philadelphia-based artist Diane Burko about her life as an artist, explorer and environmental activist devoted to the critical topic of climate change.

April 22, 2020
Artists from the Michener's exhibition "Rising Tides: Contemporary Art and the Ecology of Water" gather round the virtual table to discuss the role of artists in the face of climate change and social upheaval.

April 15, 2020
Hear from science and technology-inspired artists on what they’re working on right now.

Museum of Sonoma County upcoming show “Landscape: Awe to Activism” in studio interview, April 6, 2020.

PBS show Movers and Makers visits Diane Burko’s studio to explore her work and process, May 28, 2019.

CPNAS Teaser Trailer - Endangered: From Glaciers to Reefs, a Multi-Media Exhibition by Diane Burko at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. August 15th, 2018 through January 30th, 2019.

The Pennsylvania Convention Center Art's profile of Diane Burko. July, 2018.

Ecoartspace interview excerpts with Diane Burko discussing her glacier work at her home/studio in Philadelphia. Interview conducted by Patricia Watts, November 2017.

Diane Burko: Polar Investigations (DASER Panel) from the D.C. Art Science Evening Redezvous, uploaded by CPNAS, February 2014 (17m 22s)

Sensing Change 2013: Artists and Scientists in Conversation, 2013 (2m 3s)

A Profile on Diane Burko from Creative Hand, Discerning Heart: Story, Symbol, Self at the JAMES A. MICHENER ART MUSEUM. Video by John Thornton, August 2012 (5m 19s)

Diane Burko presents Politics of Snow in a 2011 panel discussion at Princeton University, April 21, 2011. (119m 52s)

Talking Creativity: Women in Science and Art Discuss Climate Issues and Activism at RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, April 20, 2011 (17m 03s)

Painting Climate Change: An interview with Diane Burko from The Scientist, Spring 2010 (2m 52s)

Diane Burko, featured in: Best Place to Watch a Volcano, for the DISCOVERY CHANNEL, Director: Robert Deege, 2002 (3m 18s)

Volcano Vacations, TRAVEL CHANNEL, Summer 2002 (3m 19s)

Natural Wonders, Diane Burko Paints the Wissahickon, 1998, Writer/Producer: Carol M. Rosenbaum