Dianne Orkin Footlick, a native of Mississippi, has exhibited her work in numerous group and solo shows throughout the United States and in Switzerland and China. Her work is in many permanent collections including New York's Art Students League, The Printmaking Workshop of New York, the Eudora Welty estate, the Mississippi Museum of Art, The Museum of the National Arts Foundation, Tulane University, KPMG-Peat Marwick, Ruben H. Donnally, the Mississippi State Capitol, Millsaps College, The Legal Resources Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Guangzhou Fine Arts Academy in China.

Footlick is a BFA graduate of Tulane University. Additional studies in art include
The Art Students League, The Printmaking Workshop of New York, Parsons
School of Design, Columbia University Teachers College, and the Women's
Studio Workshop. She studied watercolor with Mel Stabin.

Footlick divides her time between her studios in Esopus, NY and in New York City where, for many years, she has taught printmaking, drawing and design at The Dalton School.