tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79183853826421478722024-03-12T19:04:15.837-07:00Terry Rooney ArtAmherst Biennialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05183550542286517821noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918385382642147872.post-80000206036985054452023-06-16T08:31:00.002-07:002023-06-16T08:33:01.949-07:00<p> <b>USED - Attleboro Art Museum</b></p><p>I'm honored to be included in USED exhibition at Attleboro Art Museum, which was curated Russell La Montagne of La Montagne Gallery in SOWA, Boston. My piece Hands ON constructed into two intersecting houses were stage sets. This piece has antique wall paper I saved when renovating my home in the Berkshires, which has inspired this house series. Hands ON focuses on the generations that lived in this house as well as my work to bring this "Handyman Special" back to life and my family live, my son was born and where my studio is. </p><p>USED will be open to the public from this summer from June 16 - July 14 at the Attleboro Art Museum. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqCfRMHJ3eqVAv5FBWak03fuSsayZoQVYmUV_dJVo8TMJP76gMMldFpMGfnFFZsVw-HR5-e6EXJ6mFthJXl1NIX9oaO02XASKbtqNYHxffMFzF-XjVC9SCrLwC48bnFdNwmctTPZCYc4-kHLOE35OKFMnFM-IEbGVteuonC1nq2TJKGKau-a5w-1580A/s1024/20230521_143852sm%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqCfRMHJ3eqVAv5FBWak03fuSsayZoQVYmUV_dJVo8TMJP76gMMldFpMGfnFFZsVw-HR5-e6EXJ6mFthJXl1NIX9oaO02XASKbtqNYHxffMFzF-XjVC9SCrLwC48bnFdNwmctTPZCYc4-kHLOE35OKFMnFM-IEbGVteuonC1nq2TJKGKau-a5w-1580A/s320/20230521_143852sm%20(1).jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Amherst Biennialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05183550542286517821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918385382642147872.post-69011632930427039142023-06-16T07:35:00.000-07:002023-06-16T07:35:50.910-07:00<span style="font-family: arial;">Dream of a Common Language</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">I'm excited to be apart of this exhibition inspired by Adrienne Rich's book, "Dream of a Common Language at PEG Center for Art & Activism, Newburyport, MA. 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This is the response to this event....</p><p>This piece as well as two others were selected by Maggie Nowinski Curator for Post Pause a virtual exhibit presented by Easthampton Arts Center.</p><p><a data-auto-recognition="true" href="https://www.easthamptoncityarts.com/galleries/post-pause" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://www.easthamptoncityarts.com/galleries/post-pause</a></p><p><br /></p>Amherst Biennialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05183550542286517821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918385382642147872.post-77726315489917653092020-03-23T08:06:00.000-07:002020-03-23T08:06:48.052-07:00World in TurmoilIn these unsettle times with Coronavirus, I'm starting my real Artist-In-Resident, social isolation at home rather than my studio. I'm posting a piece I started after the last presidential election. This 3D house construction entitled Unsettled World seems apropos to share at this time. Presently it's at ArtsWorcester for the Transition exhibition, which is on hold until this quarantine time has past. The exhibit has been extended to the end of June. Stay safe, take care.<br />
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Amherst Biennialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05183550542286517821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918385382642147872.post-15485930271437425952019-12-17T19:02:00.000-08:002019-12-17T19:02:30.638-08:00The Angel and The Tree<div style="text-align: left;">
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Amherst Biennialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05183550542286517821noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918385382642147872.post-68558767415147297082019-07-01T13:59:00.000-07:002019-07-02T03:12:36.278-07:00Home Maker<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yes, I'm a Home Maker, in more ways than one. The theme of my works for years has been the image of a house,(usually 3-D constructions) that are an extension of a woman's body. I'm not sure if the motivation for my creating and building these houses is because I'm a child of a broken home and I'm trying to hold our home and family together. Or reflecting my present life, with a caring husband whose shared many joys and challenges in our life together. It seems of late, as become a superior woman, I've thrown caution to the winds and have become more explicit in my new work.</span><br />
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Amherst Biennialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05183550542286517821noreply@blogger.com35tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918385382642147872.post-37513685384790769422019-04-12T08:28:00.000-07:002019-04-12T08:28:10.770-07:00Open House<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Open Houses, my new series is the result of a collaboration with Tim Holcomb, a theatre and visual artist. Tim recycled former stage sets and designed these two intersecting houses for this new body of work. He left the residue from it's previous incarnation on the houses for me to play off of with paint, collage and remnants from renovating my home studio in the Berkshires. These Open Houses are the res</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">ults....</span><br />
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Amherst Biennialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05183550542286517821noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918385382642147872.post-63638596897584455802019-02-01T13:02:00.002-08:002019-02-01T13:02:50.608-08:00<div 45="" style="border: 0px ridge; float: left; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 5px;" width:="">
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<a name='more'></a><br />I have the pleasure of being invited to exhibit at Mt. Holyoke College, a series of work from a feminist point of view at 5 College Women's Research Center. It seemed appropriate to focus on the strongest image of a woman that is know worldwide, The Statue of Liberty. In a time when so many of our civil rights have been eroded, I thought I'd start with Vanishing Liberty, a charcoal drawing which I started to erase. Other works to follow is the Statue of Liberty confronting a snake. A metaphor for our time. </div>
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Amherst Biennialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05183550542286517821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918385382642147872.post-90762707881006269022017-03-02T10:43:00.003-08:002017-06-29T17:56:14.875-07:00Pathways....to Liberty<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm honored to be selected by curator, Doris Weiner Madsen to exhibit my monoprints in the Pathways exhibit at Elusie Gallery in Easthampton, MA during the BookFest opening on April 8th, 5-8 PM at the Old Town Hall. The gallery will be presenting my Liberty and the Immigrants monoprint, a detail of this piece is presented here. Also my first monoprint House Book which I've collaborated with artist/carpenter Tim Holcomb who is constructing a wooden house construction featuring the Statue of Liberty and the search for a home in our country is these perilous times. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Is “<st1:city w:st="on">Liberty</st1:city>” and
all that the statue in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">New York</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Harbor</st1:placetype></st1:place> stands for being
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">My ancestors were welcomed by “The
Statue of Liberty” and she was born in its very shadow. Perhaps that is why
this figure became a central theme in this artists’ work for more than 30 years.
Since Lady Liberty witnessed the devastation of 9/11, Rooney and what the
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The House/Home is an extension of the woman's body. Woman are usually the caregivers of the home, we cook, clean, decorate and raise our children there. Usually spending many more hours in the house then our partners/husbands do. So as I grow older, I've thrown caution to the wind and what was a suggestion of the woman's figure before (pregnant bellies, breasts and curves) have become more obvious and playful. Sometimes bosoms appear in the front of my 3D house contructions, other times they are hidden else where on these wooden house constructions. I encourage viewers to move around the houses, becoming active participants in looking at these Luscious Houses. This is like the game of "Hide & Seek."</span>Amherst Biennialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05183550542286517821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918385382642147872.post-52505687748350506812016-03-23T19:10:00.000-07:002016-04-22T12:24:52.269-07:00Altered Books - Houses Popping Up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Working on my artist book for the upcoming exhibit at MAP in Eastworks, Easthampton. I'm having fun combining a box book with a small house construction. They speak to each other, the title is "Trashy Novel" Altered Books, curated by John Landino opened this weekend, April 9 with a performance and warm reception. </span><br />
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Amherst Biennialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05183550542286517821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918385382642147872.post-18377115316102290952016-02-22T09:55:00.000-08:002016-02-22T09:55:03.018-08:00Costa Rica with My Sister<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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It been a long time since I visited Costa Rica, over 25 years. It's beauty still enchants me and I rediscovered it's gifts with my sister who lived there for a time...<br />
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Some of the highlights were discovering Arenal Volcano with it's cascading hot springs with waterfalls and tropical surroundings. Also we rediscovered the beauty of Manuel Antonio and the beach in the National Park with it's jungle down to the water.The founders of Costa Rica in their infinite wisdom, made a rule that you could not develop within 150 meters of the beach, so the jungle comes right down to the water, as well as the wildlife. One of our favorite places to visit was the "Doctor's Beach" in Manuel Antonio National Park, where white headed capucin monkeys visited at our blanket and on our balcony. There was a blue rope over the road to our AirBnb for the breakfast and dinner run. The howler monkeys also scampered across our roof to the fruit trees in the back yard. How's that for nature at your doorstep?<br />
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My sister and our dear friend Amos Bien, started the oldest and purest Rain Forest Preserve Rara Avis over 30 years ago in northern Costa Rica which has a spectacular waterfall. This is a tour for the adventurous spirit with over 300 different varieties of birds in this virgin rain forest.<br />
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Amherst Biennialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05183550542286517821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918385382642147872.post-41981344080939785182015-07-15T18:52:00.000-07:002015-07-15T19:01:31.007-07:00Artscope Coverage of Pioneer Women<br />
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century Mary Bliss Parson, the accused witch of Northampton and Springfield,
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antique writing desks into contemporary assemblages. <b>Lourdes Morales</b> evokes spiritual spaces with intersecting classical
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Amherst Biennialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05183550542286517821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918385382642147872.post-82677656155977579342015-03-06T13:39:00.000-08:002015-03-06T13:50:14.562-08:00Blue Liberty<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TmwXasNfO7A/VPofkKLSvsI/AAAAAAAABdI/Rf9En0J3FM4/s1600/Blue%2BLiberty.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TmwXasNfO7A/VPofkKLSvsI/AAAAAAAABdI/Rf9En0J3FM4/s1600/Blue%2BLiberty.jpg" height="320" width="254" /></a>The Statue of Liberty has the Blues. This beautiful statue, a gift from the people of France, is the only historic figure of a woman that is known worldwide. She represents what's good about America, This art exhibition is an exploration on what this statue means to America, and how the values she stands for have been challenged. Artist, Terry Rooney explores her muse in many settings, in a multi-media exhibit in Westfield this Spring.<br />
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Liberty once was celebrated with a poem by Emma Lazarus, "Give me your tired, your poor." But those idealistic goals of our forefathers, were trampled on by a succession conservative presidents who made it difficult for immigrants to come to America.<br />
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Liberty has shown her torches light during 9/11 but began vanishing during the Bush presidential years, as our rights to privacy disappeared and survelliance on ordinary citizens is gathered. Vanishing Liberty, earsed charcoal drawings of the statue brings home this point. The Statue of Liberty and the snake is a metaphor of our times, when evil creeps into our country, our society suffers as a whole. </div>
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<i style="font-weight: bold;">LIBERTY BLUES, </i> opens this week at Arno Maris Gallery at Westfield State University, 577 Western Ave., Westfield March 5 - April 18. This exhibit is a retrospective with over 30 years of artwork of this heroic statue which shined in the harbor of her hometown, New York City. </div>
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Recent addition to this exhibition is a Liberty holding a brush, to honor the French people recovering from their recent terror attack. Also another recent addition is collograph and drawing entitled, "Ferguson." </div>
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Artist Reception, Thursday, March 19, 5:30-7:30 PM, (Snow Date March 26) </div>
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Amherst Biennialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05183550542286517821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918385382642147872.post-10081361417585863682014-12-20T09:36:00.000-08:002015-03-06T13:41:53.130-08:00Liberty's Blues<div style="text-align: left;">
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Next year is shaping up to be a very exciting year for me, starting with a multi-media art exhibit of <b><i>Liberty's Blues</i></b> at Westfield University, Arno Maris Gallery in the Ely Campus Center, March 5 - April 19. The Statue of Liberty has been my muse for over 20 years, This series is a reflection of the challenges that America faces presently. The monoprint drawing to the left, will be part of this exhibit is entitled <b><i>Ferguson. </i></b><br />
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In April, I'll be moving further west to Berkshire Community College exhibiting some recent work and working with students.<br />
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This June, I'll be putting on my curator's hat and producing a new edition of Pioneer Women to be shown at the MAP space in Eastworks highlighting the trail blazing talent from the Pioneer Valley.This traveling exhibit started in New York City ('09)<br />
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This will be an updated version of the talented woman artists that make this Pioneer Valley such a creative and vital art destination.<br />
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My exhibition Home Away From Home at Berkshire Community college Gallery, 1 Columbus Ave., Pittsfield features my 3D constructions on wood of houses (as an extension of the woman's body.) This gallery, which is in the transportation center in Pittsfield has a long glass wall in front of the bus stop. The following day after the installation a group of bus drivers were waiting outside the gallery, asked the staff to let them into the gallery before it opened, the bus drivers wanted a closer look at the artwork to see how I constructed them. They declared after getting a closer look at these pieces, that they were "Paintings". I was so tickled to hear this story, as one of my goals in creating this work, is to reach they everyday man, woman, child; to make the artwork accessible to someone who may not have an arts education, to enjoy this work. This story warms my heart.<br />
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Home Away From Home is on view until August 30 and can be seen from the street. Gallery Hours by chance.<br />
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One of the formative experiences in my life was renovating a "Handyman Special" with my husband in the Berkshires. Through this process, I realized, how affected I was by renovations around me and my connection to our house/home. When it was in disarray, so was I: when it came together so did I. It made me reflect how women through the ages are connected to house and home - raising families, cooking, cleaning. A wonderful Yankee carpenter who patiently renovated our Berkshire home, built these 3D constructions of houses, which I designed with the leftover wood from renovations.(thus bringing it closer to home for me). In promoting my vision, I superimpose the shapes of woman's (breasts, pregnant bellies) on these iconic houses so these houses become an extension of a woman's body.<br />
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Of late, I've revisited a "body" of work that I had set aside for the last few years while I focused my attention to printmaking and producing art exhibitions.As I was reworking this piece, an old friend re-entered my life briefly, polishing tarnished memories and helping me name this piece, <b><i>Moon & Sun. </i></b> All these experiences,<br />
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This Summer I will be exhibiting this "body" of work at the Berkshire Community College Intermodal Gallery, One Columbus Ave, (Corner on North St.) Pittsfield. The artist reception will be Friday, August 1 during the Pittfield Arts Walk<br />
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When I first moved to Amherst, MA in the early 90's, I was disappointed that in this rich artistic community there was no permanent contemporary sculpture in any of the parks in town. When I become Chair of the Amherst Public Arts Commission it was one of my goals to make sculpture part of the landscape in this town. Yesterday, this dream became a reality with the dedication of Matt Evald Johnson's sculpture the Portal in Kendrick Park. We (the Amherst Public Arts Commission) raised the funds to make this a permanent installation in this town park. Many people contributed time, money and energy to make this a reality including the Business Improvement District which gave us a challenge grant of $3500 to get us started. Many thanks also goes to my former committee members, especially Rene Theberge now chair of the Public Arts Commission for finishing the work I started ,Bonnie Isman who helped writing grants, Rachel Hankinson, who did helped with logistics! Thanks to all the community members, too numerous to list here for making this dream a reality.<br />
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There's a wonderful piece on the history of the Art Salon starting at the Chancellor's House at UMASS and it's newest incarnation traveling the Valley. It's next event is at the new Deerfield Arts Bank tonight starting @ 7 PM. Seating is limited so come early. There are two Amherst Biennial artists Samuel Rowlett and Tim deChristopher are just a few of the dynamic artists that will be featured in tonights Art Salon.<br />
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<br />Amherst Biennialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05183550542286517821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918385382642147872.post-91869215202393656032014-03-07T13:14:00.000-08:002014-03-29T08:29:34.217-07:00Deerfield Arts Bank - Close to Home - Grand Opening <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">South Deerfield, MA. There's a lot of creativity brewing CLOSE TO HOME, the first exhibition for the newest art center in the Pioneer Valley, the Deerfield Arts Bank. This is the creation of artist Jane Trigere who has transformed the former BOA building into a center which will offer exhibitions, art classes and musical entertainment. This first exhibition (curated by me) will feature mostly Deerfield artists including: Candace Bradbury-Carlin, Bryan Higgins, Alicia Renadette, Kerry St. Laurent, Jane Trigere & Marcia Rossi Wise. This "Close to Home" exhibition will take us on a textural and spiritual journeys through various media including impressionistic painting of water (Marcia R. Wise), reuse of fiber history (Alicia Renadette & Jane Trigere), recycled materials (Candace Bradbury-Carlin) and multi-media constructions (Bryan Higgins).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our first special event after the opening will be the traveling Art Salon on April 17 @ 6:30 PM highlighting various talent in the Pioneer Valley. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trigere and Rooney launch The Deerfield Arts Bank in South Deerfield so "Close to Home" with the hopes of engaging all of the talented artists and members of our extended community. Come join us in this exciting new adventure and be part of what happens next.</span><br />
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I've been honored to be offered two solo exhibits early this year, one in the Incubator Project Space at UMASS which will be featuring <i style="font-weight: bold;">Beneath the Surface. </i>This body of work<i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i>documents a visitation from a turtle on a beautiful mountain lake during a meditation retreat. This experience during a time of family illness helped me get past the darkness & sadness of this time and inspired me to think beyond myself and create for the greater good.<br />
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That's why I started the Amherst Biennial, to help the artists in the Pioneer Valley receive the attention they deserve. This is documentation of this experience that enlightened me.<br />
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Beneath the Surface<br />
Incubator Project Space, Hampden Gallery, UMASS -<br />
Artist's Reception - Sunday, Feb. 13, 2 - 4 PM<br />
Feb. 23 - March 13<br />
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The second exhibition, <i style="font-weight: bold;">A Piece of Heaven,</i> is the result of interviewing people over a two year period, to capture their "heaven on earth."<br />
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Both exhibitions will feature my monoprints from over a 15 year period, from conventional printmaking to non-toxic. Beneath the Surface were created at Zea Mays studio, (a non-toxic print studio in Florence, MA) '10 - '12 and A Piece of Heaven capturing heaven on earth, printed at Top Press Studio at Arts & Industry Building in the late nineties.<br />
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A Piece of Heaven<br />
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4 Boltwood Walk<br />
Amherst, MA<br />
March 3 - May 30<br />
Reception, May 1th, 5 - 8 PM<br />
Thursday Evening<br />
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<br />Amherst Biennialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05183550542286517821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918385382642147872.post-8875129575026999542013-12-26T07:23:00.001-08:002014-02-16T16:18:51.722-08:00Arts Centers Blossoming in the Valley<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It had been my hope, while I was Chair of the Amherst Public Arts Commission to re-utilize a decommission school (East St. School) to make the Amherst Arts Center. While gathering a group of knowledgeable and influential people to help me plan this arts center, it became apparent (to me) that in order to make this happen, I would have to give up my own artwork, as well as significant personal & family time and devoted myself completely to this endeavor which would have involved constant fundraising. After a lot of soul searching, I realized that at this stage of my life that it was more than I cared to sacrifice. So I was so pleased to hear that a new arts center is being created in a former bank building in South Deerfield, by an entrepreneurial spirit, Fiber Artist, Jane Trigere. She has three goals for the Deerfield Arts Bank - have fun, build community and pay the bills. She has asked me to "mentor" her and help organize some exhibits. The first exhibit will highlight artists from Deerfield during the month of April. Later this Spring a call for art from artists in the Pioneer Valley will be posted. If you would like to be consider for either of these exhibits send 3 low res jpegs to <a href="mailto:terryrooneyart@gmail.com">terryrooneyart@gmail.com</a> directly or links to your websites for consideration of our exhibition committee.<br />
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This Arts Center is still evolving, there will be art classes, art supply store, performances and many wonderful events to enrich the cultural life of the Pioneer Valley. </div>
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<a href="http://www.recorder.com/home/9111560-95/deerfield-arts-bank-to-open-in-former-bank-of-america">http://www.recorder.com/home/9111560-95/deerfield-arts-bank-to-open-in-former-bank-of-america</a></div>
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Also more good news on the Arts Center front is that the Northampton Center for the Arts has found a new home at 33 Hawley St, Northampton. <a href="http://nohoarts.org/">http://nohoarts.org/</a></div>
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