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05/27/2026

Up next: “Threading Time and Place”

Opening Reception: June 27, 6-8pm
Artist Talk and Closing Reception: August 1, 2-4pm

Hera Gallery and Educational Foundation is excited to present Threading Time and Place, a project that has been conceived in alignment with the national commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution and, more specifically, the role of Rhode Island in the birth of the Nation. Hera was awarded a grant from the RI250 Commission to partially fund this exhibition. Additionally to the exhibition, Hera is hosting collaborative performances, presentations, and workshops throughout the show.

RI250 is a commemoration, organized by the RI250 Commission, of the ideals of freedom, justice, and independence, themes that have similarly shaped Hera‘s exhibition history for over 50 years. Threading Time and Place aims to engage the community in a dialogue about the textile industry that built South County, and reflect on how this shared history may illuminate our understanding of ourselves in the present socio-cultural context and influence our choices as we collectively shape the future.

Hera Gallery artists Uli Brahmst, Sonja Czekalski, Joanne Delmonico, Karen Dolmanisth, Kathie Florsheim, Michelle Henning, Barbara Pagh, Jaimee Roberts, Susan Sancomb, Sarah Swift, Viera Levitt, and Wendy Wahl will exhibit works that speak to the core themes of freedom, equality, and independence, as well as the dynamic aspects of revolution, ranging from historical perspectives to current manifestations.

Historical objects, photographs, and ephemera will be loaned and on view from the Wakefield Mill owner, Eric Bell, and the South County History Center in Kingston.

Scroll through to see all the additional events and speakers we will be having through the duration of the exhibition!

Visit our website for a full exhibition and events description!

05/21/2026

LABOR: a Virtual Exhibtion

Sheila Ferri
https://sheilaferri.com/

Images:
(1.) “Armed & Ready”
wire sculpture
32” x 21” x 4”
2009
$2,000.00

(2.) “The Nurturer”
wire sculpture
35” x 20” x 5”
2009
$2,000.00

“Guided and ignited by reverie, my work reconstructs, invents, and catalogues hopes, wishes, and fears for the future. On a personal level, my work centers around themes of family, as well as on a global level, often addressing issues of justice and sustainability. The meditative act of twisting and weaving wire into mundane objects allows each piece to evolve slowly to represent the profound realities and wonders of life.”
- Sheila Ferri

The LABOR Virtual Exhibition will take place throughout the year of 2026. Hera Gallery has curated a selection of works that speak to the invisible job descriptions most often designated to those assigned female at birth.. All selected works will be on virtual display throughout the duration of the exhibition on heragallery.org.

Join us June 4th at 7pm for a Virtual Artist Talk - link on our website!

05/20/2026

Join us Thursday June 4th at 7pm for our Virtual Artist Talk for our ongoing virtual exhibition “LABOR.”

This talk will bring together the voices behind the 52 works in the exhibition for an open conversation about their practice, their relationship to the themes, and what it means to make visible what society has long preferred to leave unseen.

Visit our website for the link and to see the full exhibition! LABOR will take place throughout the year of 2026 with all selected works on virtual display throughout the duration of the exhibition on heragallery.org. Each week, Hera Gallery will choose one featured artist and their work from the exhibition to be posted on all social media accounts.

Video call link: https://meet.google.com/ece-zjmw-rcb

05/16/2026

Join us tonight for the Opening Reception for HOME: a National Juried Exhibition from 6-8pm.
Thank you to Heather Hakimzadeh, Senior Curator at Virginia MoCA, who juried this show for us.

“Home is at once a fundamental human need, a physical place, and a space that lives entirely in the mind. It is where our stories begin — and for many of us, where they continue to return.

At the same time, home is never fixed. It is personal and communal, warmly familiar and deeply contested. Its meaning shifts across lifetimes, across borders, across generations. What we call home at twenty may feel entirely foreign at forty — and what once felt foreign may, in time, become the place we belong.

This exhibition gathers artists whose work engages the idea of home in all its complexity — from nostalgic interiors and inherited landscapes to imagined futures and structures that might shelter us on distant worlds. Whether rooted in memory, architecture, identity, or longing, each work asks: what does home mean to you?”

Images:
1. HOME installation
2.HOME installation
3. “Shadowlight”, Jill Kerttula, 2021
4. “Interior”, Nancy Hart, 2023
5. “Those Who Remained Standing For Freedom”, Sarah Valinezhad Zarnaghi, 2026
6. HOME installation
7. “Front Yard”, Madison Hendry, 2022

05/12/2026

Thank you to Hera Artist Susan Sancomb for running “World Collage Day” this weekend at the gallery! Thank you to everyone who participated! We are thrilled to have our community create with us together in our space.

Stay tuned for more public community arts events coming up this summer!

05/06/2026

This is the last week to see “What It Means to Be Human” by the Senior Seminar Class of 2026.

Our URI students will be holding an Artist talk this Saturday at 3pm to talk about their work and process behind this capstone course and body of work.

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Visit the Gallery this week during open hours (W-F 1-5pm, Sat 10-4pm) to see this exhibition before it closes!

05/04/2026

LABOR: A Virtual Exhibition

C. Becker art
www.cbecker.art

“By a Childs’ Hand”
1.50” x 12” x 12”
$200.00
2025

“This mixed-media assemblage confronts the history of child labor in American textile mills, drawing attention to a period when childhood was often exchanged for profit and survival. Through reclaimed materials, distressed surfaces, and layered textures, the piece evokes the physical and emotional weight borne by young workers who spent up to eleven hours in loud, hazardous environments.”

Visit this full exhibition on our website (link in Bio)
And stay tuned as we post more artwork from this show each week!

04/29/2026

Join Artist Susan Sancomb on May 9th for Hera Gallery’s participation in “World Collage Day” a the Gallery during our Saturday morning hours!

This is a “Drop-In anytime” style event running from 10am -1pm at the gallery! Bring a pair of scissors and your creativity and all other materials will be provided! Let your imagination run!

This event is free and open to the public.
Donations to Hera Gallery are always appreciated during community events.

04/22/2026

Currently on view: “What It Means to Be Human” featuring the work of University of Rhode Island Senior Seminar Class of 2026.

Artists featured:
Katherene Diaz Araujo .diazaraujo
Mason Bernier
Rowen Chaves
Max Choi
Emmet Cummins
Andrew Garcia .garcia.art
Taylor Gibb
Hailee Patnaude
Vincent Saint .ns.nsong
Amy Sanchez-Zamudio ._

Throughout the month we will be highlighting our exhibiting students here online! We will also be holding an artist talk during our closing event on May 9th, at 3pm.

Thank you to all students and professors involved in making this exhibition and opening so successful.

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04/18/2026

LABOR: a Virtual Exhibition

Elaine Alibrandi
elainealibrandiart.com

Images:
1: “Worthwhile Use of a Vanity Mirror”
Mixed Media
14.5” x 9.5” x 7”
$350.00
2023

I chose the most kitschy pink mirror I could find to convert into a painting palette to depict a vacuous endeavor traded for a creative one. As a young teenager in the 1970s, I read in one of my mother’s “women’s” magazines (all written and edited by men) that a woman should spend at least six hours a day applying her makeup. I thought about how women were called vain, “Vanity, thy name is woman” etc., and found the advice and the insult cynical: I must waste a third of my waking life on an unproductive pursuit meant for women who had no other purpose, only to be called self-centered and conceited. Virginia Woolf was told by a doctor to spend four hours a day embroidering to get those “unfeminine” writing aspirations out of her
head. Had nothing changed, I wondered, in the 60 years since she was given that prescription?

A lot has changed in the past 40 years. But it’s all becoming like those six hours of daily makeup application – a waste of time. The US has been in a steady march backwards since Reagan in the 1980s, and the pace is faster every day

2. “She Said, “I Do””
Mixed Media
24” x 12” x 4”
$395.00
2023

She Said “I Do” is a humorous take on the traditional expectations of a wife: Cooking, cleaning,
and s*x – the last for procreation, fun, or both, and the woman’s willingness and availability whenever her partner wants it. My grandmother’s engagement ring, given to her by her third husband, graces the shoulder strap of the teddy.

3. “Image of the Artist as a Young Girl”
Mixed Media
53” x 18” x 10”
$2,500.00
2023

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