5TH Decade: Hera Gallery
January 16 – February 22, 2020
At Jamestown Art Center
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 16th , 2020, 6-8 p.m.
Closing Presentation: Hera: Artist Cooperatives, Activism and Social JusticeFriday, February 21st, 7 p.m.
5th Decade: Hera Gallery celebrates the 45th Anniversary of Hera Gallery with the work of 20 current members and a selection of historical materials. As an artist run organization, Hera is always in flux, new members join, current members leave. The Fifth Decade exhibition is a snapshot of who we are in this moment in time, at 45 years. The people who are our members, at different stages of their art making careers and lives are making work that resonates with the artistic freedom that an artist run organization affords its artists. Hera members work through a variety of media, both traditional and experimental. The work produced by our members reflects each artist’s ideas, creative concerns and expression. What ties our work together is what brings us together as a community; a heartfelt commitment to our creative practices and a desire to live and work in a place that fosters our work as working artists.
In the small gallery historical materials will enable viewers to engage in Hera’s past through posters, catalogs, postcard announcements, photographs and video. As a collaborative Hera member text project, words and phrases will be interspersed throughout the exhibition space. A portion of the Womxn’s Project Quilt, a project with roots in Hera’s Creating Together lecture series, will also be on display.
A closing event will be held on Friday February 21 at 7pm with a presentation, Hera: Artist Cooperatives, Activism and Social Justice. Afterwards there will be a celebration and formal presentation of the Womxn’s Project records and Quilt to the Pembroke Center Archives at Brown University.