Hera Gallery

Hera Gallery artists receive RISCA grants Myron Rubenstein, Carl Dimitri, Viera Levitt Hera Gallery is pleased to announce that three artist members of Hera have recently been awarded grants from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Myron Rubenstein, Carl Dimitri, and Viera Levitt . Additionally, Hera Gallery also received an organizational grant for the gallery’s 2012 exhibition schedule. To have 4 of the 76 awards granted to artists within the community of Hera Gallery is unprecedented, and reflects the caliber and dedication of the artists associated with the gallery. Hera Gallery received a project grant to support two major exhibitions scheduled for 2012. The first show to benefit from this grant is the Annual Children’s Art Exhibition, which features over 300 pieces of artwork made by elementary and middles school aged artists from across Rhode Island. This show is highly anticipated by the artists, families, and teachers involved, and provides children with their first ...

The Year-end Artistic Collective featured at Hera will provide a combination of visual arts with the performances of live stage arts. The examples on display will be arranged with no regard to order creating a new whole that others may interpret openly. Opening night will take place on Friday, December 30th at 8PM and the closing night will take place the following Friday, January 6th at 8PM. There is no cover to attend we ask that you bring new or slightly used children’s books, art or school supplies to benefit the Boys & Girls Clubs of Rhode Island. Art may be purchased during gallery hours or by appointment.

Hera will be featuring a wealth of young artists in its up and coming exhibition écr iations that will take place this January. An opening reception will be held on Satur day, January 14 and the show will remain in our walls throughout the following w eek. A closing reception will also be held the following Satur day, January 21 . Below you find a quick look at two of our exhibiting artists. These first two images are paintings done with oil and mixed media by New Hampshire artist, Alec Harding, including a self a self-portrait. The following two are local artist, Kyle Sellon, who also features a self-portrait...

Erica Knowles’ photographs will be on display in The World’s Smallest Art Gallery* through January 15, 2012. Erica is a self-taught photographer, a URI student studying journalism and gender studies, and an aspiring photo jouranlist. Erica says she took her lead in photography from her sister Ashley Knowles. Ashley is a wedding photographer in Charleston, South Carolina. Check out her blog at http://suitcasephotographer.blogspot.com/ . Lots of people take photographs and share them with family and friends on Facebook. However, Erica’s are different. They are better; more vivid, more colorful, more mysterious and suggestive, more engaging. To look at them is to be introduced to a new place you’d like to get to know and simultaneously to be reminded of a place from your past you’d like to revisit. Now that is a neat trick! * The World’s Smallest Art Gallery is: • A kiosk on the So uth County Bike Path ( http://southcountybikepath . org/ ). It is located in Peace Dale where the bike p...

HYDRA was a hit! The gallery was full with in and outs who enjoyed the opening reception this last Saturday. Big thanks to everyone who came out to support the cause! Below are a few pictures taken during the show... HYDRA was a hit! The gallery was full with in and outs who enjoyed the opening reception this last Saturday. Big thanks to everyone who came out to support the cause! Below are a few pictures taken during the show...

Casey Wiebust is Exhibiting in The World's Smallest Art Gallery from October 15, 2011 through December 1, 2011. Casey's Artist Statement: My goal as an artist is making the surreal and magical world I often imagine believable. My imagination takes me to a world of supernatural beings and settings in which I wonder, "Is there really a 'middle earth’ with witches, goblins, wizards and fairies?” My artwork has revolved around this theme for the past few years. My interest in the fantastical world derives from my childhood; I grew u p in Jamestown Rhode Island, my house surrounded by woods, brooks, gardens and of course, witches, fairies and gnomes! The World’s Smallest Art Gallery is: • A kiosk on the So uth County Bike Path ( http://southcountybikepath . org/ ). It is located in Peace Dale where the bike path crosses Route 108. The kiosk is a beautifully designed and built structure that has two display cases. Each measures 42” X 41” x 2”. The cases are weat...

CALLING ALL ARTISTS! LIVING ARTS of Tulsa is accepting proposals for artwork of every sort. SEND: a written proposal with description of the work to be presented video documentation, CD/Audio tape, 10-15 slides of work, or CD or DVD (Mac/PC) with images in jpeg format (900 x 1200 maximum). Be sure to title and correspondingly number your work as well as include media, size, artist bios/ phone numbers/ addresses/ e-mail addresses/ technical requirements for work's presentation SEND TO: Steve Liggett at 307 E. Brady Tulsa, OK 74120 for more info please visit steve@livingarts.org phone:918-585-1234

HEY EVERYONE! October 15 from 6pm-8pm will be yet another NOT SO SILENT Auction. Tickets ARE ONLY $5 at the door! There will be hors d'oeuvres and live music so stop in for all the festivities...

These first two images are prints that dealt with experimentation of opposition. I was upset with these prints as a whole but later realized that it was because I had grown accustom to the reverse image that I had been carving. These prints are called "Erra Erra" which I found to be an amusing title. These next two images are great examples of the style of graffiti that I developed over the years. I try to be attentive and creative with my letter placement and combination. The overall goal is to make the letters flow into one solid image. The piece on top; "Yesir" and the below; "Angel"

Hello everyone! My name is Leander Jaques and I am more than excited to be meeting all of our associates throughout the upcoming months. I am a born and raised Rhode Islander from the Wickford area in North Kingstown and absolutely love this state. I am currently taking studio art classes at URI and am a big fan of instate tuition. Following the 2012 spring semester I am returning to the New Hampshire Institute of Art for my senior year where I will receive my BFA in Illustration as well as a minor in Printmaking. Art is something that has surrounded me for my entire life. With a tattoo artist for a grandfather, mother, and aunt, I have been exposed to a vast breed of characters in the art world. And with a grandmother who lives for traveling, I have been privileged to experience some of the world's most beautiful art from the Vatican and all its wonder to the mesmerizing halls of the Louvre. It is this clash of artistic exposure that has influenced my style of work and has broaden...

The gallery was abuzz with great artwork and phenomenal people last Saturday night for the opening reception of our current show, NEW WORK, featuring six of our associate members. Check out the pictures below, all courtesy of Claudia Flynn :

Islay Taylor is the current exhibiting artist at The Worlds Smallest Art Gallery, a tiny little kiosk in Peace Dale situated on the Washington County Bike Path. She has put a selection of laser cut pieces of jewelry on display, along with the larger sheets of scrap neoprene that the pieces have been cut from. She likes the concise framing of the presentation, it makes the work on display look otherworldly. Thanks to John Kotula for taking on this fun project that gets art out of the gallery and into the public sphere!

By Keith Powers Contributing writer September 29, 2011 12:00 AM "Liminal" is not a commonly used word, but its various meanings are filled with artistic possibilities. "Between," "transformation," and "dislocation" are some. "Liminal" refers to that period when things are in transition, when possibilities for danger, change, and mystery exist in equal measure. It is also the defining feature of a new exhibition of works by Lin Lisberger, Michael Yefko, and Phyllis Ewen in an appealing exhibition on display at the Grimshaw-Gudewicz Gallery at Bristol Community College. Anything "liminal" offers possibilities, challenges and perspective. The three artists, using visually similar materials but with vastly different approaches, all gaze at the intersection between the natural world and our involvement in it with curiosity and reticence. Read the rest of the article by clicking here.

By Doug Norris/Features Editor ...A bit farther afield, the artists of Hera Gallery in Wakefield are exhibiting as part of an exchange with AS220 in Providence. The show, "Hera Works," running through Saturday at AS220 Project Space, serves as a sampler of new work by 16 Her...

By Doug Norris/Features Editor Thursday, September 1, 2011 11:07 AM EDT WAKEFIELD - Two artists take different paths as explorations of America's living spaces in the latest exhibition at Hera Gallery. "Alexandra Broches: Landscape" and "Michael Yefko: Shed," each occupying a separate room in the gallery, are wildly different in approach, technique and execution, yet complement one an...

Preview our recently released book, HERA2010, which features our current membership and an introduction by Katherine Veneman . HERA 2010 by Hera Gallery/Hera Educational Foundation | Make Your Own Book Click the links in the preview window for more information. Or click here to go to Blurb .

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Alexandra Broches will be presenting new photographs at the Wadleigh Gallery at Chester College of New England. The show will open on September 6th, and will run through October 6th; with an opening reception on the evening of Wednesday September 14th at 5:00pm.

Hera Gallery member, Mara Trachtenberg , will be presenting her series Photographs from A Decadent World at Krause Gallery in Providence. The show ill be up from September 8th through the 23rd, with a reception on September 15th from 5:00 - 9:00pm. Please visit www.mosesbrown.org for more information and directions to the show.

From our previous Gallery Director, Cynthia Farnell: Dan and I returned from Myrtle Beach last Sunday after wrapping up our final shoot for Wish You Were Here - our photo essay on Waikiki Village, a small family- owned motel in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The series will be exhibited at the Franklin G. Burroughs & Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum of Myrtle Beach from January 8 until February 26 , 2012. We have been raising funds on Kickstarter and need your help! We have until Thursday August 18 at 7:58PM (that's tomorrow!) to meet our Kickstarter goal! Aspects of this project have been supported by the South Carolina Arts Commission. We have also applied for funding from the Humanities Council South Carolina, but support from artists, educators and arts professionals such as yourself is vital to Wish You Were Here! Please take the time to check us out on Kickstarter and follow us on Posterous (http://farnell-powell.posterous.com/) - any donation is welcome and re...

For the past two days, John Kotula, Jerry Shippee, Evan Hanson (a.k.a. 90sevan), Ross Gronvold, Melanie Bicknell, Harry Kenyon, Jesse Kenyon, Wayne Quackenbush, Fred Cahill and Amber Swann have been hard at work creating the new mural to be hung on the side of Hera Gallery. According to Barbara Pagh, this is to be the fourth incarnation of the Hera mural. The first was created by John Mascartola who worked with at risk high school students to create individual panels. The second was four panels of the Saugatucket River that were created in conjunction with an exhibit. Beth Schenke worked with young art students and painted the pieces in the back room at the gallery. Eventually the pieces were given to the Saugatucket River Heritage Coalition. The current mural of a woman reading to a group of students is in need of replacement due to the effects of New England weather. The new mural includes a variety of images such as a pair of roosters, graffiti and cartoon style designs.

NEWPORT, RI: Twenty-four members of the Printmakers' Network of Southern New England (PNSNE) have assembled a diverse and arresting array of original prints for "MICRO/MACRO," opening at the Newport Art Museum on September 3 and running through December 31, 2011. Each artist responded to at least one of two size-related challenges. Talks, workshops and other programs are planned throughout the fall to coincide with "MICRO/MACRO." The Museum hosts a reception for exhibitions opening in September on Friday, September 9, 5 - 7 pm, 76 Bellevue Avenue. The reception is free for Museum members. A $10 donation is suggested for non-members. Participating in "MICRO MACRO" are Grace Bentley-Scheck, Shirley Bernstein, Joan Washburn Cole, Claudia R. Fieo, Carol Strause FitzSimonds, Jenni Freidman, Donna M. Frustere, Elizabeth A. Goddard, Eric Goldberg, Sarah H.Gustafson, Joan Jacob son-Samore, Victoria Jutras Kniering, Melody Knight Leary, Amanda Lebel, Jim Le...

I was greeted this morning by an exciting email in my 'inbox' from a poet friend. There is in the works, a four week poetry/art series that is being put together to present visual and word artists to the public at the Wakefield YMCA. The format seems to be an informal share and tell that will do a good job engaging the public. Please take a moment to read the call for participants below... and feel free to email Lori Roeleveld about participating. Artists and Poets for Lunch at the South County YMCA on alternate Fridays running from 9/23 through 12/2 . I'm hoping to line up one poet and one artist to come in from 12:00-1:15 to share their work and talk a little bit about their process. We have a large senior population here around that time but also lots of empty nesters. I'm also approaching area restaurants to ask them to support the arts by donating one healthy buffet lunch. They can showcase their menu and advertise their business as well as support the ...

Hera Gallery opens new ‘In and Out of the Box’ exhibit July 24, 2011 By Shaun Kirby skirby@ricentral.com Hera Gallery will feature “Out of the Box,” a new exhibit on view through Aug. 13. Call 789-1488 or visit www.heragallery.org. The gallery is located at 327 Main St., Wakefield. SOUTH KINGSTOWN—A vast network or stamps, cardboard boxes and envelopes travel rapidly across the world, delivering gifts and other pieces of mail to their ultimate destinations. The process of packaging, opening and repackaging the materials we ship out daily, however, is never consciously apprehended. Hera Gallery seeks to change this ignorance of our postal lives. ‘In and Out of the B...

Hera Gallery Artist Carl Dimitri is showing his drawings in The World's Smallest Art Gallery* through September 1, 2011. (Shown here is a detail of Lincoln.) Carl makes politically informed artwork that can be appreciated for the thought provoking ideas he deals with or for his exuberance and technical skill. The portraiture in this se ries is as impressive as the reminder that in the past our political leaders were inspiring statesmen, who spoke about profound issues. *The World’s Smallest Art Gallery is kiosk on the South County Bike Path ( http://southcountybikepath.org​/ ). It is located in Peace Dale where the bike path crosses Route 108. It is a joint project of Hera Gallery ( http://heragallery.org/ ) and Peace Dale Neighborhood Revitalization, Inc. ( http://www.peacedale.net/ ). John Kotula is the coordinator of this project for Hera Gallery. If you are interested in showing your artwork on the bike path contact John at johnkotulapchn@yahoo.com to get more details and to sc...

Hera Gallery member, Michael Yefko's drawings appear in the inaugural edition of The Ocean State Review published by the University 0f Rhode Island. Contact the Ocean State Writers Conference for details.

Hello everyone! My name is Karen Lewis and I'm the new intern at Hera. I'm very much looking forward to meeting all of you at the upcoming summer events. I'm a returning student at URI majoring in Art and French. I grew up in Westerly and Wakefield, moved to Boston after high school and returned to Little Rhody a few years ago. I've always had a love of languages and while in Boston taught English as a second language. Eu falo Português. Aussi, maintenant j'apprends le Français. I also studied Spanish for about 6 years, mostly with Señor at SKHS and then at UMASS Boston, and am hoping to start learning Russian this summer. I've become very interested in printmaking since taking Print One with Professor Pagh and am currently taking a monotype course with Professor Samson. This is a new medium for me and I've learned a great deal over the past several months. The number of techniques and processes used to create an image amazes me and it's always fascinati...

Recently, the Exeter West Greenwich Senior Portfolio class held a pop-up exhibition at Hera. The students installed the show, coordinated the reception, and de-installed all within the course of a weekend! The were busy busy busy, working furiously to get their first show up and ready for the public. The reception was fantastic, and the artists and attendees were all appreciative of the opportunity. Here are just two images from the evening...

Suzi Ballenger's amazing weaving will be on display in The World’s Smallest Art Gallery * until July 15. Suzi has been weaving for 28 years. She also teaches weaving, mainly at the Saunderstown Weaving School where she has had a long affiliation with the school’s founder Norma Smayda. Suzi is an endorsed arts educator through the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. For her exhibit in The World’s Smallest Art Gallery on the bicycle path in Peace Dale, Suzi has chosen pieces made of recycled and repurposed materials: plastic wrap, plastic film, mill end fibers, fishing line, and, appropriately, bicycle chain . She has fashioned these castoff materials into two scarves, a purse, a necklace, and a somewhat scandalous apron, an apron Lucy would never have worn to welcome Ricky home. Curator’s Statement: Suzi Ballenger says about herself, “I am a cook by profession and a weaver by passion.” Could it be that the food she prepares is as spicy, adventureso...

Hera Gallery Presents Video Art From India June 17, 2011 7:00 – 9:00 pm Hera Gallery is pleased to present Video Art From India , an evening of film screenings to be held on June 17th at Hera Gallery. The compilation of films, which have been curated by Hera Gallery member Ambuja Magaji, features works by Surekha , Babu Eshwar Prasad , Manjunath Reddy , Mangala.A.M, Bharatesh Yadav , Raghu Prasad , Koumudi Patel , Baptist Coelho , Venkatesh K.N , Aditi Kulkarni and Deepak . Both narrative and experimental films by Indian filmmakers from different geographical and cultural groups, will be shown illustrating the artists’ diverse backgrounds. The films included in Video Art From India explore topics as unique as the filmmakers who have composed them. Currently, there has been an upsurge in the use of digital media arts within emerging Indian artists as a form of expression. This evening of video screenings is sure to present a distinct perspective that will chall...

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Exhibit Opening for Suzi Ballenger, HANDWOVEN Re-cycled, Re-purposed, Realfibers! June 2, 7 - 8 pm at THE WORLDS SMALLEST GALLERY Peace Dale Art Park (Bike Path) Peace Dale, RI Exhibit runs from June 1 - July 17, 2011

Hera Gallery Presents 37 th Anniversary Show May 28 st – July 2 nd 2011 Opening Reception: June 4 th , 6:00 – 8:00 pm Hera Gallery is pleased to be celebrating our 37 th anniversary. Over the past 37 years Hera has undergone many developments and changes, however one thing has remained consistent over time: Hera has always had a talented and dedicated group of artists working with the gallery. In celebration of this anniversary, and in recognition of the members that contribute to Hera Gallery, we are pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition, 37 th Anniversary Show . This exhibition will feature the work of current gallery members, Linda Denosky-Smart, Cynthia Farnell, Michael Yefko, Claudia Flynn, Troy West, Elizabeth Lind, Carl Dimitri, Roberta Richman, Jeannette Jacobs, Jill McLaughlin, Myron Rubenstein, Barbara Pagh, Alexandra Broches, John Kotula, Viera Levitt, Mara Trachtenberg, and Susan Hayward. Works on display will include textiles, photogr...

Exeter West Greenwich High School invites you to the opening of their final show this Sunday (5/22) from 4-8pm at Hera Gallery. Students exhibiting are: Kayla Bailey, Annie Dwyer, Sean Farrell, Nathan Greene, Emily Hamlin, Emily Humphrey, Jessica Lawler, Felisha Lussier, Laura Marcus, Torey Randall, Becca Rowan, and Laura Taylor. The exhibition will also be up Monday, from 3-6!

A mixed media work by Claudia Flynn was selected for the exhibition "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" at the Galerie Vidourle Prix in Sauve, France.  She and Troy West recently had solo shows at this gallery in southern France.