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CHARACTER APPEAL:

Portraits from the Newport Art Museum

October 6 – November 3, 2022

Opening Reception:  Thursday, October 6, 2022 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm

The Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery and Salve Regina University’s Department of Art and Art History are pleased to announce the opening of Character Appeal: Portraits from the Newport Art Museum, an exhibition of portraiture from the 18^th to 21^st centuries.

Character Appeal: Portraits from the Newport Art Museum examines likeness, identity and personality through the timeless subject of portraiture.  This exhibition presents seventeen artworks on loan from the Newport Art Museum, featuring a range of paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs.  Highlights include a Japanese woodblock print from 1796 and an oil portrait of the writer and suffragist Julia Ward Howe from the 1890s.  The exhibition features numerous artworks with Newport ties, including paintings by Christopher Benson and Freedley Durr, a wood engraving by John La Farge, and a pencil drawing by Howard Gardiner Cushing.  This collection of portraits offers images of youth and age, individuals and couples, the costumed and the contemplative, the everyday and the reimagined.

A generous partnership with the Newport Art Museum made this exhibition possible.  This curated selection of portraits was organized in collaboration with a community engaged learning course co-taught by Professors Ernest Jolicoeur and Anthony F. Mangieri of Salve Regina University’s Department of Art and Art History.

Character Appeal: Portraits from the Newport Art Museum runs from October 6 through November 3, 2022.  On Thursday, October 6 the university community and general public are invited to attend an opening reception.  The reception will run from 6:00 to 8:00 pm in the Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery.

IMAGE CREDIT:

April 21 – May 8, 2022                

Public Reception: Friday, May 6, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. 

Neneé Angulo

Erin Barker

Chloe Brown

George Corrigan

Michaela Costa

Emily Fuentes

Grace Levalley

Suz Mello

Meagan Rood

Megan Vien

Karenna Waring

The Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the Juried Senior Show 2022.  This exhibition showcases the creative achievements of this year’s graduates from the University’s Department of Art and Art History.  It features the work of eleven artists working in graphic design, painting, drawing, illustration, interactive media, sculpture, and photography.

The public reception for this exhibition will be held on Friday, May 6 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.  The evening will begin with the Senior Awards Ceremony at 5:00 p.m. in the DiStefano Lecture Hall, next door to Hamilton Gallery.  The Juried Senior Show 2022 closes on Graduation Day, May 8, shortly after a post-commencement collation for the students and their families in the Gallery.

The Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery is handicap accessible with parking along Lawrence and Leroy Avenues.  This exhibit is open Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00 to 6:00 p.m., Wednesdays and Fridays 11:00 to 5:00 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays noon to 4:00 p.m.  The Gallery is closed on Mondays.  We invite you to visit us.