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JP Fernandes exhibits at SAAHP as part of September Bristol-Warren Art Night

November 3rd, 2012 by rsargent116

Bristol artist John Paul Fernandes was the featured artist at the SAAHP for the September Bristol-Warren Art Night September 28. Fernandes studied art at the Roger Williams, studied jewelry design and jewelry model making at Rhode Island School of Design, and studied porcelain doll making through the Seeley's Porcelain Doll Artisans School of Doll Making. Recent exhibitions include the Portsmouth Arts Guild, Newport Art Museum, Gallery 297 of the Art League of Rhode Island, and Spring Bull Gallery, Newport.

Artist Simone Renee Spruce-Torres featured in Bristol-Warren Art Night at RWU July 26

August 17th, 2012 by glaramie

Simone Renee Spruce-Torres is a contemporary representational artist who creates a rich variety of multicultural portraits and figures placed in distinctive interiors and exteriors, creating a sense of time and place to engage her audience. Her mediums of choice are acrylic paint and graphite pencil. Spruce-Torres has exhibited in galleries as well as museums, colleges and universities, art centers, libraries and churches. She has been told that when people experience her work, they feel a powerful sense of awareness, encouragement and enlightenment.

My purpose as an artist is to use my art as a vehicle to raise awareness of social issues and to bring about social change.

My mission is to create art that inspires individuals to take action and seek justice, raise consciousness, touch lives and give voice to those groups who are marginalized.