Hera Gallery

#MeettheartistMonday Meet Hera Artist MJ Yeager, one of the artist's whose work is part of our current exhibition, Something Between Us. MJ's work encompasses collage, painting, drawing and assemblage.  "I make art because I am an artist. I have a vivid recollection at a very young age of a red crayon and a coloring book page from a catechism coloring book of Jesus...and me coloring very much out of the lines." Tell us your artist story, some biographical info, when did you decide to be an artist? Why do you make art? Where did you study? Etc. I make art because I am an artist. I have a vivid recollection at a very young age of a red crayon and a coloring book page from a catechism coloring book of Jesus...and me coloring very much out of the lines. A little later on in my life I became amazed at the whole tactile experience of playing with ColorForms. I can almost smell the plastic. The shiny vinyl shapes placed ever so thoughtfully into their ...

It is our Annual Friends of Hera Membership Drive! Your financial support for the last 45 years helps us to continue bringing timely, engaging contemporary art and ideas to South Kingstown and the state of Rhode Island. Thank you. May 17, 2019 Dear Friends of Hera, In the spring we hold our annual membership drive for the Friends of Hera.  Who are the Friends of Hera? you may ask. Hera Gallery has received financial support from our community for 45 years and this is an important part of our total income. We have loyal supporters who have donated to the Friends of Hera since our founding in 1974 and value that we provide our community with contemporary art in all media, provoke thoughts with timely themes such as our recent exhibition  SHAME , provide opportunities for elementary school, high school, and college students, and engage the public with events such as the  Creating Together  series. Our recent exhibitions have been covered in  ...

#MeetOurArtistsMonday Meet Roberta Richman, one of the founders of Hera Gallery, Roberta's landscape inspired imagery is now on View June 15-July 20, 2019 in our current Exhibition, Something Between Us. Opening reception is June 22, 6-8pm. Tell us your artist story, some biographical info, when did you decide to be an artist? Why do you make art? Where did you study? Etc. I was about 13 when I first discovered how much I loved painting and drawing when I started taking classes at the local Y. I majored in art at Brooklyn College and discovered etching, spent two years at Pratt Graphic Art Center using their workshop and got my MFA in printmaking at Indiana University. At Brooklyn I got to take classes with artists supplementing their work with teaching, notably Ad Rhinehardt, Jimmy Ernst, Philip Pearlstein. What do you want people to walk away with after experiencing your work? I don't think much about how others respond to my work. Making art satisfies s...

#MeettheartistMonday Meet Abigail Wambolt! Abigail Wambolt is one of the artists in the upcoming exhibition, Something Between Us.  The exhibition runs from June 15 through July 20 with the opening reception on Saturday June 22, 2019 from 6-8pm at Hera Gallery, 10 High Street, Wakefield, RI. For more information about the exhibition visit www.heragallery.org  and if have not seen the excellent article about the show in Artscope magazine you can here:  https://artscopemagazine.com/2019/05/still-empowering-heras-distinctive-summer-members-show/ . To see more of Abigails work, visit Hera or her website  https://abigailwamboldt.com/home.html Tell us your artist story, some biographical info, when did you decide to be an artist? Why do you make art? Where did you study? Etc. I don’t come from an art family but I was very lucky to have great art teachers growing up, and even though my parents were skeptical they were always supportive. I had a...

#MeetTheArtistsMondays Hello! We haven't been using our blog for some time and we have decided to revive it so that we have a place to archive and share a new project, #MeetTheArtistsMondays. On Mondays, beginning Monday June 10 we will be publishing brief but informative artist interviews with Hera artists and artists who are exhibiting at Hera. There will be shared on social media and this blog will serve as an archive of artists who are in some way part of Hera Gallery. We hope you enjoy!