Hera Gallery

The RI State Council for the Arts' budget will be heard in the House Finance Committee on Wednesday, May 5. Take action today! Send the message to your representatives that the creative sector - and the jobs they represent - are critical to Rhode Island! Three ways: 1. CALL. Take two minutes to follow the prompts on The RI State Council for the Arts site and call your Representative! They have provided speaking points, and they want to hear from you - their constituent. 2. EMAIL. Follow the link to send an email message to your Representative. There is a letter provided to start with. Add your personal experience, your opinion, your voice! 3. COME. YOU are needed in the room to show House Finance Committee members the abundant presence of the arts and creative sector in Rhode Island. Attend the hearing on May 5! Hearing details: May 5, 1:00 pm, RI State House, Basement Rm 35

Our intern, Becky Peabody , has received an Excellence Award for her intaglio print "Flying Dream" in the University of Rhode Island Annual Juried Student Exhibition 2010. Over 150 artworks were submitted by URI students to this years show, currently on view in the Main Gallery at the Fine Arts Center in Kingston until the end of May. The show was juried by Providence painter Simone Spruce and Hera Gallery member and photographer Alexandra Broches. They chose 50 artworks for the show and the top 10 received Excellence Awards. They did a wonderful job picking out artwork and we recommend you go take a look if you get a chance. There is some extreme talent coming from URI art students this year. The gallery is open weekdays from 12-4 and will be open on Saturday May 22nd and Sunday May 23rd as well. Becky has also recently been awarded 3rd place in the Carlotti Spring 2010 Art show, also at URI. This is a biennial show in the Carlotti Administration building. Her intaglio prin...

Gallery member Jeanette Jacobs' quilt "Splash" is featured in the Wayne Art Center's current international competitive quilt exhibit ArtQuilt Elements 2010. Jacobs quilt was one of 50 quilts selected from the hundreds of applications by a blue-ribbon jury. Wayne's show is the only biennial exhibition on the East Coast devoted exclusively to the art quilt. Jacobs' "Splash" reflects how traditional patterns in quilts are being updated to have a more contemporary look. Click here to read the article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, or read below. " A rich, lively competitive exhibit. Wayne wraps itself up in art quilts by Victoria Donohoe Wayne i s hosting an astonishingly good quilt show. Certain cities and cultural institutions develop relationships with regularly held group exhibitions, which can take on mythical dimensions. Venice has its Biennale, Pittsburgh its International. And suburban Wayne's ambitious neighborhood arts center is rapid...

Tomorrow, April 17th, 2010, at 7pm at the Church of the Ascension Parish Hall in Wakefield, RI is our Spring Fundraiser! Tickets can be purchased at the event to win an artwork, or guests can just come to enjoy the work without purchasing one. We hope to see you there!

Susan Hayward has created an amazing interpretation of a Paint By Number Kit... The image below doesn't do her work justice, but you can see that she has beaded the whole image with brightly colored seed beads. The intricate mosaic is truly astounding, and could be yours... if you buy a ticket to our Spring Fundraiser this Saturday. For more info, visit our home page.

Artist: Olivia McCullough Artist: John Kotula Artist: Jon Campbell Artist: Roberta Richman Artist: Linda Denosky-Smart Artist: Chelsea Fredrikson Artist: Luke Buffenmyer

You can win these original works of art!!! All you have to do is buy a ticket to our spring fundraiser, the paint By Number Lottery, and you're guaranteed to randomly win a transformed paint by number kit. The event will be held on Saturday, April 17th, from 7:00 - 8:30 pm at the Church of the Ascension Parish Hall on Main Street. Tickets are only $50, and all proceeds go to benefit Hera Gallery. So, please support the arts and buy a ticket!

Two more Paint-by-Number kits arrived today. This piece above is a lovely collage piece by Valerie Kitchen. Valerie used her Paint-by-Number kit as inspiration for this piece. The second piece was completed by Morgan Ketner. Instead of modifying a purchased Paint-By-Number kit, she chose to create her own. This hand drawn image is labeled so that the winner can paint it in themselves. You can win one of these beautiful works of art by purchasing a ticket to the Paint-By-Number Fundraiser on April 17th. See our homepage for more details.

"On March 30 and 31 Rhode Island experienced a flood of historic proportions.  We are only just beginning to understand the level of damage this storm has left behind. The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, in partnership with other state agencies, cities, towns and community groups, is committed to helping artists and arts organizations affected by this storm and its aftermath.  Over the next weeks and month (for we expect this to be a long-term effort) we will attempt to assess the level of damage experienced by our colleagues in the arts community, provide information and assistance where possible, and seek resources to help in the recovery eff ort. Was your studio flooded?  Did you lose valuable works of art, equipment, tools?  Was a performance affected, causing you to lose revenue?  We need to gather information about facilities and equipment damage, what this may mean to budgets - loss of earned income because performances have to be stopped and/or exhibitions canceled...