Senior Honors Thesis Exhibition 2025

April 03 – 16, 2025              

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 03, 5:00 to 7:00 PM   

           

Madison Capetta

Caitlin Dinneen

Claire Faraday

Ellie Heath

Jillian Kwitkiwski

Grace Parks

Victoria Venditto

Madeline Walent

Stephanie Wills

 

The Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the Senior Honors Thesis Exhibition 2025.  This exhibition showcases the work of nine outstanding seniors from this year’s graduating class in the Department of Art and Art History. This unique group of studio artists welcomes the public to an immersive interdisciplinary exhibition that includes painting, illustration, photography, ceramics, graphic design, bookmaking, sculpture, and installation art.

 

A public reception for the artists will be held at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 03 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM.  Additional information can be found at art.salvereginauniversity.com.

 

The Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery is located in the Antone Academic Center on the campus of Salve Regina University.  It is handicap accessible with parking along Lawrence and Leroy Avenues.  Its exhibits are 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.

Alicia Renadette: Hamilton Gallery Artist-in-Residence 2024

December 3 – 12, 2024

Open Studio Reception: Thursday, December 5 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM                                         

 

The Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery is pleased to announce Alicia Renadette as the Department of Art and Art History’s 2024 Artist-in-Residence.

 

The Rhode Island-based interdisciplinary artist Alicia Renadette will relocate her studio practice to Salve Regina’s Hamilton Gallery for the two weeks following the Thanksgiving holiday.  During this period, she will share her creative process with the Salve community and incite new opportunities for dialogue, interaction, and learning on campus.

 

As an artist-in-residence, Alicia Renadette will explore the interplay of sculpture and mixed-media drawing.  Renadette proposes to move fluidly between two and three dimensions while building densely layered hybrid forms that draw from both the natural world and material culture.  Her sculptural abstractions mine the lost and found, recasting discarded and displaced everyday objects as agents of history, memory, and growth.  Drawing plays a critical role in her accretive process.  She approaches drawing not as a preliminary study or descriptive summary of form, but rather as an intuitive way to deconstruct, repurpose, and transform the ideas and materials of sculpture.

 

Alicia Renadette is a native of upstate New York.  She now lives and work in Providence, RI.  Renadette studied Sculpture at the San Francisco Art Institute (MFA) and Hartford Art School (BFA).  She has attended multiple residency programs and received numerous awards.  Her artwork has been exhibited widely.  Her local exhibitions include AS220, the Newport Art Museum, the Jamestown Art Center, and Brown University.  Alicia Renadette is curator and co-director at Overlap Gallery in Newport, RI.

 

As the Department of Art and Art History’s Artist-in-Residence, Alicia Renadette will work in the Hamilton Gallery daily, from December 3 through 12, 2024, during the Gallery’s public hours of operation.  On Thursday, December 5 the campus community and the general public are invited to attend an open studio reception with Dan.  This reception will run from 5:00 to 7:00 PM in the Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery.

 

The Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery is located in the Antone Academic Center on the campus of Salve Regina University.  It is handicap accessible with parking along Lawrence and Leroy Avenues.  Its exhibits are 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.

Best of Salve Student Show: BOSS 2024

BOSS Show 2024

September 12-29

The Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the Best of Salve

Student Show 2024, also known as BOSS Show 2024.

Each September the Department of Art and Art History presents its annual survey of

outstanding student artwork drawn from the full spectrum of visual art courses taught on

campus. This juried exhibition showcases creative achievement at all studio levels, from

introductory to advanced, in a wide variety of media. This year’s show features a range of

artwork from both art majors and non-art majors in the areas of photography, painting,

drawing, illustration, ceramics, graphic design, sculpture, and interactive media.

An awards ceremony for BOSS Show 2024 is scheduled during the gallery reception on

Thursday, September 14. This year’s juror is the ceramic artist Jon Baylor from Salt Pond

Pottery and the Jamestown Art Center. Immediately following the awards in the Gallery, the

Department of Art and Art History invites all students majoring or minoring in Studio Art and

Art History to attend a kickoff and orientation event next door in DiStefano Hall. BOSS Show

2024 runs through Wednesday, September 29.

The Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery is handicap accessible. Its exhibits are open to the public on

Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11:00 to 6:00 p.m., Wednesdays and Fridays from 11:00 to 5:00

p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 4:00 p.m. The gallery is closed on

Mondays. We invite you to visit us.

Stay Tuned

The Hamilton Gallery is closed for the summer.  It will reopen when classes at Salve Regina University resume in September 2024.  We will be posting the 2024/25 gallery schedule shortly.  Please stay tuned!

Juried Senior Show 2024

May 2-19, 2024          

Public Reception: Friday, May 17, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.           

 

 

Miranda Forman

Lauren Foster

Hannah Krasznai

Lily McConnell

Claire Siegler

Ellysa Tancrede

Makayla Vieira

 

The Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the Juried Senior Show 2024.  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 seven artists working in graphic design, painting, illustration, interactive media, ceramics, and photography.

 

The public reception for this exhibition will be held on Friday, May 17 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.  Please join us to celebrate this year’s graduates in Studio Art.  The Juried Senior Show 2024 closes on May 19, shortly after a post-commencement day 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.

 

UNBOUND: Senior Honors Thesis Exhibition 2024

April 04 – 24, 2024              

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 04, 5:00 to 7:00 PM   

           

Miranda Forman

Claire Siegler

Makayla Vieira

 

The Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of UNBOUND: Senior Honors Thesis Exhibition 2024.  This exhibition showcases the work of three outstanding seniors from this year’s graduating class in the Department of Art and Art History. Miranda Forman, Claire Siegler, and Makayla Vieira collaborated to create an immersive exhibition featuring their three distinct thesis projects.

 

Miranda Forman is a storyteller who combines illustration, writing and an array of found and handmade objects to narrate the mysterious travels of a fictional young woman, and her search for artistic inspiration.  Claire Siegler’s watercolor and gouache illustrations recast an array of characters from the Grimm’s Fairytales as the eccentric personalities behind each face card in a standard deck of 52 playing cards.  Makayla Vieira explores the creative possibilities within graphic design, animation, and interactive media to help young people better understand the complexities of their medical diagnoses.  The infographics displayed in her gallery installation serve as educational tools for adolescents with diabetes.

 

A public reception for the artists will be held at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 04.  Additional information can be found at art.salvereginauniversity.com.

 

The Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery is located in the Antone Academic Center on the campus of Salve Regina University.  It is handicap accessible with parking along Lawrence and Leroy Avenues.  Its exhibits are 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.

 

Spring 2023

September 14 – 27, 2023       

BOSS Show: Best of Salve Student Show

 

October 5 – November 2, 2023         

Ernest Jolicoeur: Erased Landscapes

Paintings and drawings

 

November 9 – December 10, 2023   

Cursive and Clay                    

A select group of regional ceramic artists who center writing, text, graffiti and other forms of “cursive” expression in their work.  Featuring the ceramics of Justin Gerace, Kathy King and Stephanie Lanter.

Senior Honors Thesis Exhibition 2020

Online Reception: Thursday, April 23, 2020 from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.

 

 

Avery Rose-Craver

Shannon Lazzaro

Ayu Sakamoto

 

 

The Department of Art and Art History is pleased to announce the launch of the Honors Senior Thesis Exhibition 2020.  This online exhibition showcases the work of three outstanding seniors from the Department of Art and Art History.  It features thesis projects that involve photography, graphic design and painting.