Hera Gallery

The Visual Arts Sea Grant Program of Rhode Island was established in 1988 to encourage New England professional visual artists to address the issue of the environment of the ocean and its coastal communities. Grants are intended to financially assist individuals and/or collaborating artists whose works are related to themes of the marine environment. Curatorial proposals will be considered.  The grants, up to $3,000, will be awarded annually. This year's application deadline is May 27, 2011.  Previous recipients of Sea Grant awards are not eligible for five  years. Individuals enrolled as undergraduate or graduate students are not eligible. Proposals will be review by a panel of RI professionals in the visual arts. Applicants must submit: Maximum of ten .jpeg images in RGB format approximately 1024 pixels wide on a CD. Artist's current resume and brief statement, outlining the objective of the proposal, relevance of the work to ocean environments, and ...

Dreams, memories, a stream of consciousness, instinctive flow, pushing form and stressing content...that's how Images Evolve. The upcoming exhibition of recent paintings by artists Carl Dimitri from Rhode Island, Samantha Listorti from Connecticut and Aaron Wetjen-Barry aka a-ronious from Boston presented in the galleries at Hygienic Art. The show runs from February 19th until March 12th. The show is located at Hygienic Art, 79 Bank Street in New London, CT. Check it out : http://www.hygienic.org

A collaborative project between Hera Gallery & The Origami Poems Project: Ekphrasis Gala Opening will be on Saturday, March 12th from 6-8 p.m. Special Guest: Tom Chandler, RI poet Laureate Emeritus Music by Castle and James Shelton Readings by Origami Poems Poets Eat a Poem for Lunch Held at Baglez in Wakefield on Saturday, March 19th and 26th at noon Music, art, readings from local poets Daniel Chase, musician Celebration of National Poetry Month Happening at Hera Gallery on Friday, April 1st from 6-8 p.m. Contemporary Theater actors perform Origami Poems "Cyjoe Barker, The Origami Detective" by Barbara Schweitzer

This is a film that was submitted to our recent film festival. "The Eerie Hours" by C. Curran, J. Zaydon, and D. Casey.

Here is another great video from our Young Adult's Exhibition!  Enjoy "Mi Rosario" by Nestor Munoz.

This video, by Nick O'Neill, was shown at our recent Young Adult's Exhibition.  Enjoy his "Expression!"

This video, by Chip Connell, John DiGangi, Brian Keefe, and Lucas Ritacco, was shown at our recent Young Adult's Exhibition.  Enjoy!