EDUCATION
MA, Art Therapy, New York University, NY, NY
Art Students League of New York
BA, Fine Art, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
Arturo Michelena School of Fine Arts, Valencia, Venezuela
Treasure Valley Community College, fine art, Ontario, Oregon
Art of Poetry, Art and Cake LA
Emotions Embodied: Abstractions from the West Coast, Art Scene West, Del Mar, CA
Conversation in Time and Space, invitational show, CoCA Seattle, WA
Fall Show, Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery, Portland, OR
Bloomin’ Arts Out of Towners online invitational, Youngston, OH
Fall Show, Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery, Portland, OR
Migration, Columbia Center for the Arts, Hood River, OR
Spring Show, Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery, Portland
Light and Abstraction, 510 Museum and Art Space, Lake Oswego, OR
Creativity Persists, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Spring Show, Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery, Portland, OR
Inner Dialogue, Columbia Center for the Arts, Hood River, OR
Fall Show, Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery, Portland, OR
1000 Words, Columbia Center for the Arts, Hood River, OR
New Artist Members Show, Portland Art Museum RSG, Portland, OR
Art Therapy Faculty Show, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR
Expressions West 2017, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR
solo show, Providence Willamette Falls Medical Center Gallery, Oregon City, OR
solo show, Developmental Services Bldg, 4th Floor Gallery, Oregon City, OR
Barbara Ann Levy Gallery, The Bridge Art Fair, Miami, FL
solo show, Almondine, Brooklyn, NY
DUMBO First Thursdays Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival, open studio, Brooklyn, NY
DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival, open studio, Brooklyn, NY
DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival, open studio, Brooklyn, NY
solo show, The Barbara Ann Levy Gallery, Cherrygrove, NY
GLAAD OUT Auction NYC 2005, Altman Building, NY, NY
Faces of the Fallen, Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, DC
Beyond the Glass Door, Fine Art Faculty show, New York University, NY
26th Small Works, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, NY, NY
12×12, James R. Thompson Center, Chicago,IL
Small Waves in a Big Ocean, Gallery One Twenty-Eight, NY, NY
A World View, Times Square Lobby Gallery, NY, NY
Visual Metaphor, College of New Rochelle New Rochelle, NY
The Brain and Self, Copenhagen and Elsinore, Denmark
Stuff, Curcio/Spector Gallery, NY, NY
The Nature of Our Environment, Times Square Lobby Gallery, NY, NY
August Expressions, School of Visual Arts 23rd St Gallery, NY, NY
Awakened Dreambooks, 450 Broadway Gallery, NY, NY
Femme Vitale in Times Square, Times Square Lobby Gallery, NY, NY
Vitale woman, CEO Gallery, NY, NY
Four Trine, Alleycat Gallery, NY, NY
Femme Vitale, Loft Lawyers Gallery, NY, NY
Femme Vitale, Whitehall Gallery, NY, NY
1.5 Show, 148 Duane St Storefront, NY, NY
Cathedral Arts Festival, Jersey City, NJ
Jersey City studio tour, Jersey City, NJ
July 4th Exhibition, Liberty State Park, Jersey City, NJ
Artist’s Self Portraits, Corvallis Arts Center, Corvallis, OR
solo show, Canyon Way, Newport, OR
Erotics ’84, Northwest Artists Workshop, Portland, OR
solo show, Newspace Gallery, Corvallis, OR
Three Women Artists, Memorial Union East, Oregon State U, Corvallis, OR
PUBLISHED/TELEVISED ARTWORKS
“CHAD” Season 1, Turner N Center Productions, Snow is for Country Places
“Sorta Like a Rockstar”, Netflix, Houseguests
“Pretty Little Liars: the Perfectionists” Horizon Scripted Television, Houseguests
Cover art, Journal of American Art Therapy Association, Coming Home
The News Hour, PBS, Portrait of Dustin Sekula, Faces of the Fallen
Fedora, journal of art and poetry, A Flexible Relationship
PRESS
Romancing the Light: Ann Carstensen, Leslie Ebert, and Diana Milia, essay by Richard Speer
Art Therapy Helps Unlock Inner Ills, J. Polland, Queens Tribune
Interview: http://dumbonyc.com/2007/05/15/diana-milia-interview/
1998
Nomadic Artist Stops in Jersey City Heights Studio, G. Ondetti, The Jersey Journal
1984
Erotics ’84, A. Hayakawa, The Oregonian
AUTHORED BOOKS
2000
Violent Creation: Self-Mutilation and Art Therapy, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, UK
2006
Violent Creation: Self-Mutilation and Art Therapy, Hebrew edition, ACH Pub. Israel
AUTHORED ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
2009
Book review: Art Therapy and Social Action by Frances Kaplan, Arts and Psychotherapy (36)4
2008
Book review: The Silver Drawing Test and Draw a Story by Rawley Silver, Arts and Psychotherapy (35)4
2007
Film review: Monster Road by Brett Ingram in Journal of AATA (24)4
2007
Film review: Beyond Words by Judith Rubin in Journal of AATA (24)1
2006
Book review, Strengthening Emotional Ties through Parent-Child-Dyad Art, Therapy by Lucille Proulx, Arts in Psychotherapy (33)4
1996
Article: Art Therapy with a Self-Mutilating Adolescent Girl: AJAT (34)4
LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
2011
Attachment and Loss, Adventist Medical Center, Portland, OR
2010
What Drawings Have to Say, Association for Creativity in Counseling national conference, Portland OR
2007
Art Therapy Credentials, Identity, and Ethics, New York University, NY, NY
2006
Licensure, Ethics and Professionalism, New York University, NY, NY
2005
Embodying the Aggressor, Edith Kramer Symposium, New York University, NY,NY
2005
Self-Injury and Creativity, School of Visual Arts, NY, NY
2005
Vicarious Traumatization, Coalition for Hispanic Family Services, Brooklyn, NY
2004
Psychology of Creativity, Stirling Duo Chamber Music, Poconos, PA
2001
Sacrifice to Symbolization, New York Art Therapy Association, NY, NY
2001
Self-Mutilation and Art Therapy, Interfaith Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
1998
Celebrating 10 Years of Femme Vitale, American Art Therapy Association annual conference, Portland, OR
ART-RELATED EMPLOYMENT
2005-present
Art Therapist in private practice, Brooklyn, NY and Oregon City, OR
2013-17
Adjunct Instructor of Art Therapy, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR
1998-08
Adjunct Instructor of Art Therapy, New York University, NY, NY
2001-08
Art Therapist, PS 307, NYC Public Schools, NY, NY
2000-08
Clinical Art Therapy Supervisor, Queens Children’s Psychiatric Center, Bellerose, Queens, NY
1995-01
Clinical Art Therapist, IHB Day Treatment Center, Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, Brooklyn, NY
1995-98
Clinical Art Therapist, Interfaith Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
1992-95
Personal Management for Paquito D’Rivera, jazz musician, Weehawken, NJ
1988-90
Curatorial/Preservations Assistant, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Rental Sales Gallery, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR