Diane Matyas - Artist

09/04/2026

If you were unable to attend her debut in April, the Luna Park Elephant is coming home to Staten Island!
Saturday, Oct. 3, at 7pm, Noble Maritime Collection at Snug Harbor Cultural Center. $10.00 use the link below to reserve your seats.
Come early to see the fabulous galleries of history and art- pay what you wish.

(Support for the performance and its development includes the New York City Art Fund & Howard Gilman Foundation via Staten Island Arts, and the Center at West Park with the Jim Henson Foundation)

Tickets are limited, but available at the Noble Maritime Collection website- or click here:

The Noble Maritime Collection, Snug Harbor C.C. 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D Staten Island, New York 10301 United States

08/30/2026

Swells along Long Island’s North Fork - Connecticut in the distance. Travel drawings and watercolors to keep exhausted focus and rocky rear-end-itus. - when I could be lallygagging (happily) on a beach towel.

08/13/2026

Ignore the evites - 'tis a plague of Hacks on my house. But soon I will be sending out a legit newsletter. That will be safe/ not sorry. 😢

08/07/2026

Beloved. We all need more Calder 🤡 Circus fun. The suitcases, performances for his friends, and Mrs. C playing the records… Clever and joyful.

07/07/2026

3 years of PARC (supported by the Howard Gilman Foundation) Grant recipients came together to celebrate and SING their cohort experience - thank you for this unique opportunity to grow and connect Staten Island Arts . ‘Twas a win-win for the artists, mentors, and NYC-community! I bow to all the performers.

07/03/2026

Sorry email recipients! I was hacked and a weirdo Invitation was sent to all my (very out of date) contact list. Don’t open it! And if you get second email from a friend stating “this was really from me” don’t believe it. That’s what happened on my end! Most were caught by Apple- but some got through.
From now on the only invitations will be by mail or word of mouth! 👄

06/09/2026

Knots are my algorithm.
Ah, the Alpine butterfly - I love her.😍

06/04/2026

122th anniversary- resilience and buoyancy, and inspiration.
Now, let’s place my 10” Alice in a new location.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZKkxvhxNa8/?igsh=MThpdGEyZW1vaGV6NA==

05/12/2026

My Cohort!
Puppet People are the best.

05/08/2026

Let’s get this passed NYC!
Kamillah Hanks 🐘

A bill to ban elephant captivity has been reintroduced in the New York City Council. The bill, Intro 590, will also require those holding elephants captive in New York City to relocate them to a sanctuary that meets their complex needs.

For decades, elephants Happy and Patty have been deprived of their freedom and forced to live in a small, unnatural enclosure at the Bronx Zoo. Both are confined alone. This is undeniably wrong—but we have the power to make it right.

NYC residents ONLY: take direct action to support this bill by contacting their council members here: https://bit.ly/4wgCphJ

If you’re not a resident of NYC, you can still take action! Help keep pressure on the zoo while this bill moves forward. Use this action alert to contact Bronx Zoo leadership and urge them to release Happy and Patty to a sanctuary: https://bit.ly/3QVrXfK