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Our new Student Fellowship
Program offers student artists the opportunity to show their work in a professional
gallery setting. Student Fellows receive the benefits of gallery membership in exchange for
completing a volunteer project designed in conjunction with Hera staff.
Photographers Meghan Kirkwood and Nicholas O'Brien
recently joined Hera as part of this program. "Summer
Salon" is
their first Hera exhibition.
Photographer Meghan Kirkwood received her BA
in Art History and West European Studies from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, and is
currently a candidate for the BFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design. In
addition to her art studies, Meghan has received grants to photograph the American midwestern
landscape, to study with Berlin photographer Helga Paris, and to self-publish a book of her
photographs titled, "Belleza y Tristeza: From Grinnell to Tijuana." This summer she
is an artist in residence at Isle Royale National Park in Houghton, Michigan. In "Summer
Salon" she will be exhibiting black and white photographs from her documentary series on
Civil War re-enactment groups.
Photographer and South County native
Nicholas O'Brien will study Fine Arts at the University of Rhode Island in the Fall. Nick's
predominant subject is the Southern Rhode Island landscape. A selection of his black and white and
color digital photographs will be on display in "Summer Salon." His photographs were
recently published in the Newport Mercury, a Newport, Rhode Island-based arts and
entertainment weekly.
Painter and founding Hera Gallery artist
Roberta Richman received her MFA from Indiana University, Bloomington. Roberta works in oil
stick on paper to create saturated and expressive landscapes depicting sites of soft, natural
beauty. Oil stick -- a medium which can be opaque, translucent, or semi-translucent -- is ideal for
representing organic forms.
Multiple-media artist and Newport resident
Kim Salerno
attended the Art Institute of Chicago and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Kim's
bright two and three-dimensional collages based on natural subjects have been shown
widely in the New England area.
Naomi Sultanik
makes installations that incorporate the book form as a metaphor for the accumulated
knowledge of myth, memory, history, and culture. Naomi has received grants to pursue
projects in the Netherlands, Israel, and New York. Her work has been exhibited in the
United States and in Europe.
Painter and former Hera Gallery Director
Katherine Veneman
will show works that "reveal a complex and often chaotic space in flux."
Katherine received her MFA from American University in Washington, DC, and she is
currently the Curator of Education at the Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the
University of Houston.
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