Hera Gallery

#FoodforThoughtCreativeQuarantine From Hera member John Kotula A Virtual tour of Gates of Heaven and Other Stories My exhibit titled Gates of Heaven and Other Stories opened at Hera Gallery on March 7th and was scheduled to be up until April 4th. Well… life is what happens while you’re making other plans. Of course, the gallery had to close well before April 4th. On the other hand the show is still on the walls, because subsequent events were also put on hold and it is unclear when things will get back to normal and Hera’s always excellent programing will get going again. It maybe that my show and its companion exhibition, Chad Amos Self’s WE TIED HOTDOGS TO STRINGS AND MARVELED AT OUR DISCOVERIES: FINDING FORMS IN LOCAL WATERS, will stay up until Hera reopens, allowing some time for things to get reorganized. Perhaps there will be a public event to celebrate Hera being back in business! In the meantime, I want to present this blog entry as an alternative means of shar...

#MeetHeraArtistBarbaraPagh Tell us your artist story, some biographical info, when did you decide to be an artist? Why do you make art? Where did you study? Etc. I didn’t have much art background before college though I always liked to make things. I didn’t seriously consider art until my sophomore year at Mount Holyoke College. I took a sculpture class with Leonard DeLonga and his teaching was an inspiration and made me see the world in a new way. I also studied printmaking with JoEllen Knight, became hooked on the process and subsequently pursued printmaking in graduate school at NYU.  What do you want people to walk away with after experiencing your work? Most of my prints are nature based, though they are abstracted. I want people to look at the natural world more closely after seeing my work. I also have worked to create larger scale installations of handmade paper based on megalithic structures. With these installations I want the viewer to have an experien...