At the URI Feinstein Campus Gallery
1st and 2nd Floor Lobby
80 Washington Street, Providence

Exhibition Dates: March 1 – 31, 2011
Gallery Night Reception: Thursday, March 17, 5 - 9 p. m.
Film Screening: Friday, March 18, 7 - 9 p.m.

With a special Providence Art Windows Installation curated by Delia Kovac
URI Library, 80 Washington Street

Hera Gallery and The Hive Archive are pleased to invite the public to the URI Feinstein Campus Gallery during the month of March for Crossing Currents: Feminism Now. This exhibition is a collaboration between Hera Gallery and The Hive Archive, and will focus on the changing identity of a feminist artist.

Since its 1974 inception, Hera Gallery has been a proactive artistic force dedicated to the advancement of artists and proliferation of fine art in Southern Rhode Island. Born out of the feminist ideal of the creation of a cooperative gallery space that was run by women with the intention of serving women artists, Hera has thrived through the active engagement of the artistic community that supports it. While the structure of the cooperative has changed and the demographic has shifted to include male artists, the mission of Hera has remained constant over the decades. Hera’s goal has remained to promote emerging and established artists, to bring meaningful artistic experiences to a suburban/rural community, and to use art to address aesthetic and conceptual issues. The pieces displayed by Hera Gallery artists in this show are sure to maintain this long tradition of excellence.

The Hive Archive was founded in 2001 as a non-profit, feminist arts organization with a mission to promote gender equality by dismantling obstacles that limit women and girls in reaching their full creative potential. Our work is focused on empowerment through art, creative expression, and civic involvement. We believe that all art disciplines can be used as vehicles for promoting positive social change.

Participating Artists:

Artists from Hera Gallery
Alexandra Broches, Carl Dimitri, Cynthia Farnell, Claudia Flynn, Jeanette Jacobs, John Kotula, Elizabeth Lind, Ambuja Magaji, Barbara Pagh, Roberta Richman, Kim Salerno, Mara Trachtenberg, Troy West, Michael Yefko

Artists from The Hive Archive
Taleen Batalian
Mary Jane Bohlen
Jenine Bressner
Margie Butler
Alma Carrillo
Joanna Read Cotter
Amy Wynne Derry
Lindsay Elgin
Bobbie Friedman
Lila Jarzombeck
Laura Kalman
Delia Kovac
Adj Marshall
Francoise McAree
Carole Ann Penney
Karen Philippi
Jennifer Raimondi
Moira Richardson
Betsy Ritz
Lisa Russell
Anna Shapiro
Monica Shinn
Alyssa Holland Short
Rebecca Siemering
Susannah Strong
Millee Tibbs
Jae Wyllie Willard

Filmmakers
Jo Dery, Monica Garrison, Delia Kovac, Ju-Pong Lin, Ambuja Magaji, Lorelei Pepi

Providence Art Windows Installation
URI Library, 80 Washington Street
Curated by Delia Kovac
Delia Kovac uses poet, activist, and essayist Adrienne Rich’s concept of the Arts of the Possible to inspire her curatorial choices. Like Rich, Kovac believes that newness and social change are made through connective creative acts. In this spirit Kovac invited artists and writers who work to build new lexicons of imagery and troubles within well-worn parameters. Creativity can supersede cultural conventions, but when it is really effective it expands what is possible artistically, personally and politically.

Visual Artists Including in the PAW Installation
Kyla Zoe Rafert
Marissa Paternoster
Amy Squires
LNY
Natalie Northrup
Arthur Middleton
Joanna Ruocco
Sarah McDermott

These programs are presented with partial support from The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Hera Educational Foundation, and The Friends of Hera.