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Hera Gallery is excited to highlight artists from the 2020 URI Senior Seminar Online Catalogue, which is available now through our website! Alex Grey: "The Lake Compounce Story"  "My goal as an artist is to practice enough to become a talented storyboard artist. I always loved watching cartoons and movies since I was a kid, and I never grew out of watching them. I feel that focusing my talents on becoming a storyboard artist for television or film. While I do like to create my own works, I would feel a lot safer working for a company and getting a weekly paycheck rather than working solo."  To read more about this artist and view the rest of the catalogue, visit heragallery.org and stay tuned for more artist features!

Hera Gallery is excited to highlight artists from the 2020 URI Senior Seminar Online Catalogue, which is available now through our website! Chyna Dougherty:   "The future can be pretty neat, but so can the past, so let's keep looking up."  "This collection was designed to take the viewer out of their space or the current physical space that they are in, and bring them into a new landscape. The large canvases themselves allude to differing sensations in the viewer. Though there is a somewhat clear idea of what these landscapes are, they are meant to bring memories upon the viewers. The viewer is meant to perceive the pieces as they please while being reminded of different feelings, places they have visited, or even if the work reminds them of a person."  To read more about this artist and view the rest of the catalogue, visit heragallery.org and stay tuned for more artist features!

Hera Gallery is excited to highlight artists from the 2020 URI Senior Seminar Online Catalogue, which is available now through our website! Daniela Del Portillo: "Lotería (La Flor, El Ojo, La Diabla, La Fruta and El Corazón)" "These pieces are my take on Lotería cards, a typical Mexican game resembling bingo, my childhood favorite. I acknowledge that my culture is not fully Mexican anymore, at this point I have spent more years in the United States than in Mexico. However, I will also never be fully American, I am a wonderful mix of the two. I carry the blood of my indigenous ancestors and the rich history of my native country but also an off-beat style and interests that my grandparents would never approve of." To read more about this artist and view the rest of the catalogue, visit heragallery.org and stay tuned for more artist features!

Hera Gallery is excited to highlight artists from the 2020 URI Senior Seminar Online Catalogue, which is available now through our website! Trevor Baynard: "The Stage"  "The Stage is a piece centered around evoking a visceral feeling in the viewer. The thought of being on a stage can make people react in different ways; it can be intimidating, enjoyable, petrifying, and even exciting. Even the mere sight of a stage entrance can stir these feelings, albeit not in everybody. This rendering offers a view out over the dunes and a view through a stage with its audience. Where do you see yourself?"  To read more about this artist and view the rest of the catalogue, visit heragallery.org and stay tuned for more artist features!

Hera Gallery is excited to highlight artists from the 2020 URI Senior Seminar Online Catalogue, which is available now through our website! Camille Audette: "New Canvas/Weighted Blanket" "The quilt I've made is sewn out of garments that I've worn; slept, worked, sweat, and cried in. Areas of fabric become primed and stiff once they are covered with layers of gesso. The quilt is a tangible result of the patriarchal burdens we bear as people. What would the world look like if women dictated it? What would the art industry look like if women's experiences had not been marginalized since the beginning of time?"  To read more about this artist and view the rest of the catalogue, visit heragallery.org and stay tuned for more artist features!

Hera Gallery is excited to highlight artists from the 2020 URI Senior Seminar Online Catalogue, which is available now through our website! Meghan Anchukaitis: "The Box" "I decided to take this project on because it was a step out of my comfort zone. I have never painted a box before or anything that wasn't a 2-D canvas, so this was new territory. To paint it and use only my imagination to fill up the blank sides was a fun type of struggle. My goal was to make a box that could take you anywhere your imagination would let you go and I know that is what I have here." To read more about this artist and view the rest of the catalogue, visit heragallery.org and stay tuned for more artist features!

Hello everyone! My name is Olivia Urciuoli, the summer intern at Hera Gallery and I will be running the blog for the rest of the summer, so I felt I should introduce myself! My entire life I have had an interest in art, but never found myself pursuing an artistic career. The same goes for music, fashion and environmental science. I never took the route of being a musician or getting a degree in fashion or environmental science, but I always felt I resonated with the individuals who took on these incredible, meticulous studies. The reason I say this is because even though I didn't feel I would succeed in these fields, I decided to study public relations. I am able to work for non-profits like Hera Gallery because in PR, I am able to incorporate ideas, put my writing skills to the test and contribute to an organization I'm genuinely interested in. What I hope to achieve in writing for Hera Gallery's blog and in my overall internship experience, is to understand the art