Diane Roby is a communications consultant, writer, and editor with a specialty in the arts. She has worked in arts-related businesses for 30 years and has been primary writer for many of DP&A’s clients. In 1996 she founded RED Communications, offering services in public relations, media campaigns, and event planning. Her clients have included UC Berkeley Art Museum; Other Minds Music Festival; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; Stanford University including their William Saroyan Archives; the opening of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts; the reopening of Stanford’s Green Library; International Schools Campus; Steve Young’s Forever Young Foundation; the Green Music Festival; and many others. In 1995 she organized the United Nations Plaza’s dedication ceremony in San Francisco, with speakers including U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Ambassador Shirley Temple Black as part of the U.N.’s 50th Anniversary commemorations.
Since 1983 Diane has worked in research, artist management and curatorial services with Anne Kohs & Associates, representing artists Manuel Neri, Oliver Jackson, Frank Lobdell, Gustavo Ramos Rivera, and many others. She is currently archiving the paintings and drawings of San Francisco Poet Laureate and City Lights founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Her work in the visual arts has also included curating exhibitions, writing exhibition reviews, and writing and coordinating the publication of catalogs, brochures, and other printed materials. Prior museum employment included senior positions with The Mexican Museum in San Francisco and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art for which she developed projects in conjunction with the Prado Museum and the Royal Household in Madrid.
