About The Carmela Kolman Fellowship

The Carmela Kolman Fellowship recognizes one exceptional artist annually who embodies the character and creativity of Carmela Kolman, an outstanding artist and member of the Gallery North community. The Kolman Fellowship offers studio space for working artists within the Studio at Gallery North over a ten-week term. 

In addition to pursuing their artistic practice, the Fellow will also enrich the local and regional arts community by teaching workshops or demonstrations, helping to organize community programming, or assisting with classes in the Studio. 

Meet the 2025 Carmela Kolman Fellow

Diana Salomon

Diana is an artist and educator based in Hauppauge, NY, and a proud mother of four. Her work explores memory, identity, and the hidden spaces within family archives, often using photography and performance to construct new narratives from absence. Diana received an MFA from Stony Brook University in 2025, where her thesis exhibition Constructing a Past was shown at the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery. Alongside this work, she's been developing Americanized, a project that reflects on assimilation and erasure through altered family photographs. Balancing motherhood and art-making is at the heart of her practice, shaping both the stories she tells and the communities she hopes to reach.

Workshops for All Ages!

Kids/Teens/Tweens/Adults

FREE

Come join us for two free community workshops with 2025 Fellow, Diana Salomon. Participants will use family memories to create new works which will be on display in the Studio.

As an artist deeply engaged in questions of memory, identity, and family history, Diana's
photographic project Constructing a Past seeks to visually navigate the silences and absences within personal archives. Rooted in her lived experience of discovering hidden family photographs later in life, the work constructs lost narratives by reenacting familial images—creating performative, staged portraits that allow her to engage with relatives she never knew or couldn’t fully access. Using traditional photographic processes and minimal interventions, Diana construct images that serve as visual surrogates for inherited memory. These
works are not nostalgic but investigative—tools for healing, storytelling, and connection.

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05-29 Family Archive Workshop w/Diana Salomon

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06-06 Photography & Memory Workshop w/Diana Salomon

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Past Fellow's in the Carmela Kolman Fellowship of Fine Arts

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