Background
Diana Rankhorn was born on May 9, 1948 in Harriman, Tennessee, United States.
Diana Rankhorn was born on May 9, 1948 in Harriman, Tennessee, United States.
In 1987 Diana Rankhorn graduated from the University of Tennessee.
In 1989-1994 Diana Rankhorn taught art history at the University of Tennessee. Since 1994, she leads the project "Art Transforms the World." She organized an exchange of exhibitions of artists of Voronezh and Chattanooga (Tennessee, United States of America, 1997), a presentation of Voronezh art in Nashville (Tennessee, United States of America, 1998), a traveling exhibition of contemporary American art in Voronezh, Pavlovsk, Ostrogozhsk, Kalach, Rossosh, Buturlinovka, as well as in Orel and Kursk (1997-1998).
Diana Rankhorn organized practical art classes for students of the Voronezh State Academy of Arts in the United States of America. At the initiative of Diana Rankhorn, a sculpture of Jack Danton from Chattanooga, installed near the building of the Voronezh State Academy of Arts (1999), was transferred to Voronezh, and the Voronezh sculptor Astapchenko donated his composition "Progulka" (2000) to the city of Chattanooga.
The organization "Art Transforms the World" became the founder and main sponsor of the inter-regional exhibition of student works of creative universities and faculties "Youth of the Black Earth Region" (Voronezh Regional Art Museum named after I.N. Kramsky, 2001).