Dianne Ballon Collection

Dianne Ballon is a visual and audio artist. Her earlier work consisted mostly of visual art, finding her love for audio and sound later on in her career. She received her bachelor's degree in Fine arts from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Years later she attended the University of Maine at Augusta for Sound Engineering. Ten of her sound works have aired on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.

She spent much of her career teaching workshops throughout Maine communities and schools. She was awarded an Artist-in-Residency at Shenandoah National Park. These workshops were given to people of all ages, in elementary schools and college campuses. She has taught many workshops in audio production to artists, producers and students. These include: Harvard University Music Department, PRX Podcast Garage, California State University Media Studies, Concordia University in Montreal at a women and sound technology conference, Maine College of Art, and at several Audubon Societies for her field recordings of bird sounds. In the 1990s, she served as Chair of the Media Arts Advisory Panel at the Maine Arts Commission.