NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Ann Fessler is a photographer, installation artist, filmmaker and author. Her non-fiction work brings the stories of ordinary people into the public sphere. For the last 35 years Fessler has focused on the subject of adoption. The work in this exhibition is

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Peter Diepenbrock has achieved a distinguished record of accomplishment as one of Rhode Island’s most prolific contemporary sculptors. Diepenbrock holds a BFA, and a BID in Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. He has exhibited his mid-scale work locally

Originally from New Orleans, Coral Bourgeois, born in 1954, received her BFA from Northern Texas State University. An artist who works with tiles, her studio is located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Source: NetWorks 2009-2010 Catalogue   Credits: Video: Richard Goulis Music: Miles Stenhouse and the Road to Ruin Producer: Joseph A. Chazan M.D. Additional Information:

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Jessica Deane Rosner primarily works on paper with ink, gouache, watercolor and pencils to create labor intensive, intricate drawings. Within every series and across media that include paper, thread, and text, she strives for control allowing mistakes and accidents to remain visible,

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: The images that I chose represent my most recent series of work. I produce about 10 to 20 works per series. In each series i try to explore new images as well as inventing new processes It keeps me excited about producing

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Michael McCoy Glancy, Sr. (1950 – 2020) was born in Detroit, Michigan, and later earned a BFA from the University of Denver in 1973 and a BFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1977. Enticed by the

Originally from East Providence, Rhode Island, Tony Ramos was born in 1944, obtained a BA in art from Southern Illinois University and MA from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia. He lives and paints in France. Source: NetWorks 2009-2010 Catalogue Credits: Video: Richard Goulis Video excerpts: “Hydroscapes,” Electron Movers © 1976, Laurie McDonald, Alan Powell, Philip Palombo,

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Agustín Patiño is a classically trained artist, he studied architecture at Universidad Estatal de Cuenca for several years, and he then continued at the Universidad Central de Quito, where he studied painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Agustín specializes in large-scale public art projects,

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Wendy Wahl is a 2010 RI Networks artist. Her work has been exhibited internationally with the European Cultural Center in Venice, Italy and the Art in Embassy Program in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Her work is in a number of private and public collections

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Steven Easton majored in glass at Rhode Island School of Design and has lived in Rhode Island for over four decades. Easton uses the lost wax / lost foam process to achieve crisp detail in his kiln cast glass portraits, and architecturally

Born in 1954 in Wisconsin, Donna Bruton received a BFA from Michigan State University, an MFA from Yale University and a certificate in painting from the Art Institute of Chicago. She resided in Portsmouth, Rhode Island and was a professor of painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. Source: NetWorks 2009-2010 Catalogue Credits: Video:

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Ana Flores is an award-winning sculptor, ecological designer, and educator. She has been promoting interdisciplinary dialogue and groundbreaking collaborations between the arts and sciences for over two decades. She has worked with communities to design award-winning outdoor installations, parks, and programming that

Irene Lawrence is a painter, printmaker, and maker of books as well as a musician who studies the cello and the viola da gamba. Born in California, she grew up on Long Island and came to Providence, where she lives, to attend the Rhode Island School of Design. Lawrence’s work is characterized by an integration of rhythmic strokes using monochromatic

“Nature is my model, sometimes literally, always conceptually. With clay and glaze I imitate nature. With function and form; color and texture; history and need, I attempt a layering of forces and structures similar to that found in natural things like flowers.” Lawrence Bush is a potter, collaborator, and educator who has taught ceramics at the Rhode Island School of

Janet Prip, the daughter of Danish master metalsmith John Prip, was born in 1950 in New York. By the time her father was concluding his teaching career at the Rhode Island School of Design, she enrolled as a student, lucky enough to study with her father for four years. Prip began her career as a

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Xander Marro has been living the good life in the feminist sub-underground for too many years to count on her long bony fingers. She draws pictures (usually narrative), makes movies (usually not narrative), produces plays with elaborate sets and costumes (usually narrative,

Hank Gilpin enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design to do graduate work in photojournalism after serving as a photojournalist in Vietnam. He instead discovered the joy of woodworking under the influence of instructor Tage Frid, who convinced Gilpin to enter the world of studio furniture. After apprenticing with Frid, Gilpin established his shop

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: John Udvardy was born in Elyria, Ohio of Hung Ancestry arian. He studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and received his BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art. He earned his MFA from Yale University. The Mary C. Page

I have been painting and drawing forever, and from the moment my little fingers picked up a bulky crayon my love for all things art began. I always wanted to be an artist, and throughout my life I have been blessed with people that have pushed me in the right directions. My artwork is driven

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Gretchen Dow Simpson was the recipient of several prestigious commissions, including assignments from Bostonian Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Absolut Vodka, and Kirin Seagram Company. She held solo shows and group exhibitions in museums and galleries across the country. Her work is held

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: With a fifty-year plus career as an artist, Paula Martiesian has been painting her entire adult life. A native Rhode Islander, she attended RISD both as a child and later as an adult, graduating in 1976. The former exhibitions curator for the

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Artist Printmaker, works on paper Original NetWorks Catalogue Bio: Born in Israel in 1964, Yizhak Elyashiv received a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. He lives in Providence

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: I am a painter who has lived and worked in Providence Rhode Island for the past fifty-five years. I received my BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1971 and my MFA from RISD in 1973. My paintings

Jillian Barber, originally from England, grew up in Westerly, Rhode Island. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design where she studied ceramics with Norm Schulman and glass with Dale Chihuly. Barber has had a career in ceramic sculpture, mask making and costume design. She brings a passion for portraiture to her mythical and

Nancy Friese obtained her BS in nursing from the University of North Dakota, in the state where she was born and maintains a farmstead studio. She changed her career course and studied painting and printmaking at different venues, culminating in an MFA from the Yale University School of Art in 1980. Primarily a landscape painter

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Astrid is an Armenian American interdisciplinary artist, born in Havana, Cuba. She received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, and her MFA from Hunter College in New York City. Her prolific body of work includes stained glass, ceramic sculpture, oil

Collage is at the heart of John DeMelim’s art; to him it is the most cohesive way to represent the myriad of differing realities we experience each day. His images derive from extensive travel and study of ancient cultures in the Amazon, New Guinea, and Mexico, as well as visits to Mali, Japan, and Greece, with his late wife.

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Artist Meredith Stern has a BFA in Ceramics from Tulane University in New Orleans. She is a founding member of the international group the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative. She has a multifaceted practice that includes printmaking, ‘zine publishing, gardening, and utilitarian ceramic ware.

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Dean Snyder was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. he received a b.fa.  in photography and sculpture at the Kansas City Art Institute in 1974. In 1975-76 Snyder received a British Arts Council Fellowship for postgraduate work in sculpture at Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry, UK.

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: CW Roelle is a graduate of The Maryland Institute College of Art. He has been making art in Rhode Island for over 20 years, the past 11, more specifically, in Foster. He is a recipient of the Robert and Margaret MacColl Johnson

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Boris Bally is a Swiss-trained goldsmith working as a contemporary metalsmith and designer Rhode Island, where he maintains his studio business, Bally Humanufactured. Bally’s work is a disciplined body of objects which vary from eccentric through formal to humorous, provoking thought and

NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Nilton Cardenas was born in Lima, Peru; he embarked on an academic journey nurturing his passion for painting at the renowned Institute Superior Jose Sabogal in Lima. In 1993, his family set foot in Miami, Florida, seeking new opportunities, and eventually settled