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 […]

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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 […]

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