CURRENT MEMBERS
Alexandra Broches
Claudia Flynn
Jeannette Jacobs
John Kotula
Barbara Pagh
Roberta Richman
Myron Rubenstein
Troy West

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
Linda Denosky-Smart
Cynthia Farnell
Claudia Fieo
Jill McLaughlin
Caroline M Pyle
Katherine Veneman


327 Main Street
PO Box 336
Wakefield, RI 02880
401 789 1488
www.heragallery.org
Gallery Hours:

The hours for Hera are currently: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
1:00 - 5:00
Saturday
10:00 - 4:00

Summer extended hours
From June 1st - September 1st our hours will be:
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
1:00 - 5:00
Saturday
10:00 - 4:00
Sunday
12:00 - 4:00

I have thought of myself as an artist since third grade when my classmates started asking me to draw things for them. For awhile, maybe it was only a week, I spent every recess drawing pages of airplanes, aircraft carriers and battleships. My friends would then play war by covering the drawings all over with arcing lines that indicated a shot had been fired and scribbles that showed a hit. I missed getting to fight the battles myself, especially making the sound effects, but I loved being recognized for drawing the best armaments.

I have been drawing continuously, at times obsessively, for more than fifty years. My choice of materials comes and goes and comes back again: pencils, charcoal, conte, ink, crayons, Sharpies, china markers, pastels, chalk. Over the years, I have drawn anything and everything (with the human figure as a constant) : portraits, self portraits, apples on reflective surfaces, Chinese take out cartons, Wonder Woman’s glass airplane, rubber animals, nuns, swimming goggles, copies of Caravaggio, Velasquez, Homer, Hopper and Diego Rivera. Through all the changes in materials and subject matter, what has always been true is that I love making marks and seeing them accumulate to reveal an image. I also paint and make prints, but drawing has always been more important to me.

Other current artistic interests include non-monetary distribution schemes (giving the work away, unsponsored/unauthorized public display of the art, mail art, etc.), work that includes text, narrative artwork such as comicbooks, work that is created in collaboration with other artists, murals, and contemporary art making in Cuba and the rest of Latin America.

Some recent projects:

* From 2005 through 2007 I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras. I executed several projects exploring art as a tool for public health education. I am currently undertaking projects to document my experiences as a volunteer and artist in Honduras.
* The Nicaraguan Mural Project (2004): I spent three weeks in Nicaragua coordinating the design and execution of a mural at a church and school in the Oriental Market neighborhood of Managua. The project, which had a budget of $3,000.00, was funded by donations from more than 60 individuals and supported logistically by the Nicaraguan Resource Network (www.nicaresourcenet.org). In Nicaragua, twenty people had a direct hand in completing the mural, including Nicaraguan artists, students, and workers.
* Making Art in Cuba: In 2001 and 2002 I interviewed and photographed artists in Cuba. This material became a slide presentation called “Ajiaco! 15 Cuban Artists and the Context of Making Art in Contemporary Cuba.”
* I have been a curator for exhibitions at Hera Gallery, South County Art Association, and The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.
* I have exhibited my own work in Rhode Island, Boston and New York City