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...