Hera Gallery

H E R A  G A L L E R Y Is pleased to announce an open call for… Landscape At The Edge: Contemporary Views Juror:   Michele L’Heureux is a working artist, Gallery Director of The Beard and Weil Galleries at Wheaton College, and Curator of the Kniznick Gallery at Brandeis University. Concept:  The contemporary viewing of the landscape is pluralistic and reflective of human relationships to the natural and manmade environment. This national juried show seeks a varied perspective on what contemporary landscape is through the artist’s engagement with the subject. We seek to explore the meaning of place, political or environmental issues related to the landscape, urban and rural landscapes, natural and manmade landscapes, or other points of view. Application Deadline:  Friday, February 7th, 2014.  Exhibition Dates:   Saturday,   April 5 th - Saturday, May 3 rd , 2014 Opening Reception: ...

Many, many thanks to our first donors in our Annual Appeal!  You have helped to kick off this fundraiser to a great start!  Want more information about our Annual Appeal? Details can be found here .

Stop by Hera Gallery today from 1-5pm to view invited artist, Max Van Pelt's "The Night's Monitor" and the work of thirty other local artists.  "The Night's Monitor" by Max Van Pelt Small Works is on display until this Saturday, 12/21! 

Hera Gallery opens back up tomorrow at 1pm, so come down and view Hera Member Myron Rubenstein's untitled intaglio prints and the works of many other local artist's in our Small Works exhibition! "Untitled" by Myron Rubenstein Small Works is on display until this Saturday, December 21st! All works are not only $300 and under, but tax free as well! 

Dear Friends of Hera,   Have you visited Hera Gallery in the past year? If so, you have seen that we have settled into our new space at 10 High Street and are currently in our 40 th year of programming. We have a full schedule of exhibitions scheduled for the coming year and in May 2014 we will celebrate with a 40 th Anniversary Exhibition at the Hoxie Gallery in Westerly.   In June, I became President and Mara Trachtenberg became Vice President. In August, our Gallery Director, Dora Szekely, left to pursue other opportunities and our intern Abigael McGuire became Interim Director while we conducted a search. We are pleased to announce that Abigael was selected as Director. We have some new members of the gallery whose work you will see in upcoming exhibitions.   Once again we have received operational support from RISCA for the coming year and received positive remarks from the panel. However since RISCA’s budget was decreased by 8%, so was our gr...

Hera Gallery is closed today, but you can come visit Hera Member Jill McLaughlin's collage "C Tab" and a wide array of media from local artists on Wednesday from 1-5pm. "C Tab" by Jill McLaughlin Small Works will be on display until this Saturday, December 21st. All works are not only $300 and under, but tax free as well! 

Come view Hera Gallery President Barbara Pagh's untitled piece made of her own handmade paper, as well as the artwork of over 30 local artists, today from 10am-4pm! "Untitled" by Barbara Pagh All exhibiting work is $300 and under as well as tax free! Small Works will be on display until Saturday 12/21.

Come see Hera Vice President, Mara Tractenberg's untitled sugar sculpture and many more intricate pieces at our Small Works exhibition! Gallery open today 1-5 and Saturday 10-4!  "Untitled" by Mara Tractenberg All works are $300 and under as well as TAX FREE! Exhibition will be on display until 12/21.

We are pleased to welcome one of our new members MJ Yeager  to the Hera community. MJ is a local artist and designer. She worked in the design field from 1974 in Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, New York City, Washington DC and Maine until 1994 shortly after the birth of her daughter is when she and her family moved to Maine. It was then that she retired from the graphic design field and began teaching art to children and adults. She moved here to Rhode Island in 2003 and taught art locally at Quest Montessori School. Teaching provided her an opportunity to fine-tune her own expressive art forms including painting and blended media collage. Her 20-plus year career as a graphic designer may explain her passion for the process of collage. As a designer/art director in the 70s, 80s and early 90s prior to the onset of digital technologies, all of the design and production was prepared in cut-and-paste format and sent to print houses for reproduction. By 1992 all design projects were complete...

Artists and Patrons! Have questions about Rhode Island's new policies on tax free artwork? Visit the Rhode Island Division of Taxation's Q&A page for more information and links to important documents! Reminder that all artwork in our current exhibition, Small Works, is not only $300 or under, but tax free as well! Just in time for the holiday season.

H E R A  G A L L E R Y Is pleased to announce an open call for… Landscape At The Edge: Contemporary Views Juror: Michele L’Heureux is a working artist, Gallery Director of The Beard and Weil Galleries at Wheaton College, and Curator of the Kniznick Gallery at Brandeis University. Concept: The contemporary viewing of the landscape is pluralistic and reflective of human relationships to the natural and manmade environment. This national juried show seeks a varied perspective on what contemporary landscape is through the artist’s engagement with the subject. We seek to explore the meaning of place, political or environmental issues related to the landscape, urban and rural landscapes, natural and manmade landscapes, or other points of view. Application Deadline: Friday, February 7th, 2014.   Exhibition Dates:   Saturday, April 5 th - Saturday, May 3 rd , 2014 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 5 th 2014, 6:00 – 8:00 pm Eligib...

Congratulations to one of our artists Paul Forte for being featured in  Numéro Cinq    Magazine!  Numéro Cinq  is an online international journal of arts and letters  founded in 2010 . It  publishes a wide variety of new and established artists and writers with a bent toward the experimental, hybrid works, and work in translation as well as essays on the craft and art of writing.  The article features his wonderful essay  “Visual Thinking and Cognitive Exploration” which discusses the theory and practice of Conceptual Art.  Read the essay here  Numéro Cinq's site:   http://numerocinqmagazine.com/2013/12/01/visual-thinking-and-cognitive-exploration-essay-images-paul-forte/

Paper Nautilus Books in Providence will be donating a lovely tote bag as well as other merchandise at the Silent Auction! With its close proximity to    Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design this store has many books on the arts and scholarly editions, both in print and out of print. Emphasis is on art, architecture, photography, film theory, cultural studies, philosophy, history, fiction, poetry, Rhode Island, gardening, and cooking.  The Silent Auction and opening reception of the Small Works exhibition will be Saturday November 23rd from 6-8 p.m.

Win a chance to have dinner for two at the Bike Stop Cafe at the Silent Auction! Also being auctioned is a $25.00 gift certificate. The  f undraising Silent Auction & Small Works Opening Reception is  Saturday, November 23rd from 6-8 pm. 

ARTWORK DOCUMENTATION Offered by Mara Trachtenberg 15 pieces of your artwork documented by a professional photographer.  You will have a CD of high quality, well lit images that are portfolio ready.   All images will be in JPEG format.     Valued at $200, this service and many more will be up for bid at the Fundraising Silent Auction & Small Works Opening Reception Saturday, November 23rd at 6pm.

PAPER MAKING WORKSHOP FOR TWO  WITH BARBARA PAGH Have you ever seen beautiful handmade papers at a store and wondered how they were made.  Well, you can find out in a workshop with Barbara Pagh, who will not only teach you about the process of making paper but will also help you make your very own paper!  You will be doing the work shop at Barbaras home studio, and leave with a folio of handmade paper. Top two bidders will win a spot in this workshop. Valued at $100.00, this and many more items will be up for bid at the Fundraising Silent Auction Saturday, November 23rd at 6pm  

This is an amazing opportunity to capture a moment and have it turned into a beautiful work of art.  Hera Gallery member, John Kotula will photograph the winning bidder and create a mixed medium portrait on paper.  The size will be approximately 24” by 36”.  The turn around time is six weeks.  Sorry, no redos. John has been drawing continuously, at times obsessively, for more than forty years.  His choice of materials comes and goes and comes back again: pencils, charcoal, conte, ink, crayons, china markers, pastels, chalk.  Over his long and variegated artistic career, what has always been true is that John loves making marks and seeing them accumulate to reveal an image.  Valued at $500. Up for bid at the Silent Auction on Saturday, November 23rd at 6pm!

Many thanks to Ashley Van Etten of Narragansett's Willywaw for donating a $100 gift certificate for the Silent Auction to be held next Saturday, November 23rd!  Willywaw~ The studio and workshop specialize in hand-printed serigraphs (screenprints) and a produce a range of goods, from hand-printed textiles to note cards and t-shirts. Her work is inspired by nature, through close observations and organic interpretations of color, shape and texture.  Ashley's original paintings, illustrations and serigraphs influence her collections. T-shirts are sourced for their quality and fit as well as the range of colors. Note cards are printed on beautiful mould-made paper from Italy. The textile range is handmade by Ashley, start to finish. Her goods are constructed with care and attention to detail, from choosing natural materials to screen printing designs, every item is sewn and finished to high standards. To learn more about this local business, check out their websit...

Finishing Touches here in Wakefield will be featured in our silent auction! There is an opportunity to bid on a $50 gift certificate which can be used towards a custom framing job.  The silent auction  as well as the opening reception for our new  Small Works  exhibition.  is November 23rd from 6:00 to 8:00 pm at Hera Gallery.  Take a look at Finish Touches website to see the great things you can purchase with the certificate:  http://finishingtouchesri.com .