Hera Gallery

The Second Annual Artist Postcard Fundraiser! Party and Sale featuring music, food, and fun Saturday, April 28, 6:30-8:30pm Church of the Ascension 370 Main Street, Wakefield, RI Music by MeccaLily Tickets $5 at the door Here's a sneak peek of what will be there on Saturday:

Renée Newel Russo is showing drawings in The World’s Smallest Gallery from April 16, 2012 through June 1, 2012. Renée is an artist and arts educator. She did her undergraduate work at Sarah Laurence University where she concentrated in theater and art. She went on to get a Masters of Fine Arts from U-Mass Dartmouth. Currently she is working on a second Masters degree in professional writing. Renée teaches 2-D art class for children at The Attleboro Art Museum. Renée’s is showing a series of portraits that are a continuation of work that she did for her Masters thesis. She begins by drawing ballpoint pen portraits of friends and family members and then evolves these portraits into layered, mixed media pieces that often include text. Renée draws her subjects while they are relaxed, napping or watching TV. She doesn’t want them to look posed. “It means more to me to draw people I know,” Renée says. “I think about them and their lives and try to go beyond observational drawing.” Renée ...

I'm very excited about a link Islay recommended to me: RESPONDESIGN . This definitely seems like a good resource for the exhibition I am planning (based on landscape architecture and sustainable design). It's the website of the RISD student sustainability group. Judging by what I read off their "what we do" tab, it seems like they are pretty open to exchanging ideas with others interested in sustainability and other environmental issues. Although the group focuses on the RISD/Brown community, I am hoping to bring my idea and other ideas from the URI community to their attention, and be able to network with them to gain some participants for my exhibition. I think it would be great to have the educational communities of northern and southern Rhode Island unite to promote the exchange of ideas on these important issues!

Hey everyone! What an exciting week it has been! The balls begun rolling in numerous endeavors...I have registered for some great studio and plant science courses for the fall semester, got an exciting summer job at the URI Agronomy Research Farm, gone to my first URI American Association of Landscape Architects (ASLA) meeting, AND talked to the first professional landscape architect about my intern project/show here (and may i mention....he's world renowned)! At the ASLA meeting, I met my peers in the landscape architecture program. They showed be around the studio, which is beautiful! Its on the top floor of Rodman Hall, and has gorgeous sky lights. There are individual work spaces throughout the large space, designated for each grade level. There were some great projects on the walls including some hypothetical designs for East Farm. They were so impressive! At the meeting, we discussed projects for this month, since it's National Landscape Architecture Month, and earth day ...

Knight Campus Art Gallery invites you and your friends to the exhibition Cat Show (Come to Mama!) Opening reception: Thursday, April 12, from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Exhibition dates: April 3 – April 24, 2012 Exhibiting artists: Jennifer Amadeo-Holl, Daryl Ann, Wayne M. Bridge, Alice Costas, Joanna Read Cotter, Carl Dimitri, Vlado Elias, Samantha Fields, Lance Gershenoff, Tamara Krendel, Lisa Kretchman, Nermin Kura, Roya Lu, Joe Lytle, Darrell Matsumoto, Kim Murdock, Becky Peabody, M. A. Podolak, Mae Jane Poulin, Shey Rivera, Tess Spalty, Karl Stephen, Meredith Stern, Heather Meri Stewart, Zoey Stites, Wendy Wahl, Michele Wright, and Nancy Wyllie Curator: Viera Levitt This group exhibition of 28 artists from Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and beyond is composed of work that reacts to the way we look at, care for, spoil, pamper and love cats. The cat-inspired works include paintings, drawings, photography, collage, prints, sculptures, as well as piece in volving embroidered cat whiskers. Add...

Jill McLaughlin will be exhibiting her 3D mixed media artwork at DeBlois Gallery at 138 Bellevue Ave. in Newport during the month of April. She is very excited to be part of this three person show, with paintings by Shari Weschler Rubeck and CC Wolf. It is the largest collection of her assemblages that she have shown anywhere and includes four new pieces that have never been exhibited. The opening is Sat., April 7 th from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. You can also meet the artist, who will be at the gallery during Newport Gallery Night on Thurs., April 12 th .

Pawtucket Arts Collaborative and the Pawtucket Foundation Announces Call for Entries for The Pawtucket Foundation Prize Juried Exhibition APRIL 29TH THROUGH June 22ND, 2012 TOP AWARD: The Pawtucket Foundation Prize > $1,000 The Pawtucket Arts Collaborative Prize > $250 Jury of Selection: Sal Mancini, photographer; Jemison Faust, painter and mixed media artist ELIGIBILITY: This Juried Exhibition is open to all artists. All accepted work must be hand-delivered. No shipped entries. ALL MEDIA is accepted. Includes sculpture, installation and printmaking. Original work only. >> For more information, click here!

Heres a look at some of the entries so far...