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ELENA dIAdENkO-HUNTER

Elena Diadenko-Hunter completed her B.F.A. at Lviv State in 1992, and as a fine arts teacher. While she continued to display her art at small
shortly thereafter immigrated to the United States, settling in Chicago. galleries throughout Chicago, the main emphasis of her life at that time
That year, her work was accepted into the Carol Jones Gallery and the Art was teaching art. Also, she enrolled in Columbia College’s M.A. program
Windows gallery, both in the River North area of Chicago. In 1995, she was in 1998, graduating in 1999. In 2004, she won the prestigious Golden
accepted into Columbia College’s M.A.T. Interdisciplinary Art program. She Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching, awarded to only 10 Chicagoland
was also granted a $6,800 Dwight Follett full-year fellowship for her art teachers a year. As a result, she was given one free semester enrollment
portfolio, an $500 Albert Weisman Memorial Scholarship Award because at Northwestern University, where she had Independent Art Study with
of nine of her sculptures, a $200 Columbia College Presidential Award Ed Paschke. In August 2006, Elena was one of the ten winners of the
for one of her paintings, and a $500 First Place award at the Columbia Chelsea Global Showcase at Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in Chelsea, NY.
College “Women in the Arts” faculty and student competition for one of In December 2006, she participated in an international group show at
her paintings. Elena Diadenko-Hunter graduated Columbia College in 1997 Monkdogz Urban Art Gallery in Chelsea, NY. In June 2007, she left Clemente
with an M.A.T. and started to work at Clemente High School in Chicago to become a full time artist.

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