Mary Dondero
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Dondero’s work is exhibited both nationally and internationally and is held in both private and public collections, such as in the permanent collection of Naestved International Print Studio in Denmark, Bridgewater State University, the Newport Art Museum RI, Healing Arts at RI Hospital, and the Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion in New Hampshire. She has exhibited her work at the prestigious and historic landmark, the St. Botolph Club in Boston, and her artwork is regularly exhibited at Atelier Newport, in Newport RI. In 2005, Dondero presented her photo-installation, Dust at the Southeast Society of Photographic Educators Conference at George Mason University in Virginia. This was an installation where the images could only be seen if the viewer became involved by wiping the dirt off of the photograph. Once revealed an appropriated image of a Cambodian, Khmer Rouge prison appeared. |
In 2016 the Newport Art Museum presented Dondero’s Small Points in Time as a solo exhibit. This exhibit was predominantly of her large-scale paintings and abstract pastel drawings representing her main creative focus. The exhibition received favorable reviews in Art New England, The Newport Mercury and Providence Journal.
For the past twelve years Dondero has served as Exhibition Curator at the Bristol Art Museum, in Bristol RI, where she also serves as a board Director. In this capacity Dondero has established the Museum’s permanent collection of works on paper, and has actively promoted both regional and national artists. A few of the noteworthy exhibits she has organized are Word Transformed, Summer Dreams & Myth, Contemporary Women, and Kaleidoscope.
Additionally, In 2003 Dondero was one of the founding artists for Imago Gallery, in Warren, RI, an artist co-op. In 2007 she assisted the organization in establishing Imago Foundation for the Arts a 501-c-3 organization. IFA is recognized as a place where artists explore their creativity within a brick and mortar exhibition space with the additional business focus on art programming that serves the public.
Dondero is currently a full-time tenured faculty member in the Department of Art and Art History at Bridgewater State University, in Massachusetts. During her 2011 sabbatical from teaching Dondero was awarded “Artist in Resident” at Zion National Park in Utah. This resulted in a body of work titled “Perception, Time & Memory”, with one of the resulting paintings now held in the permanent collection at Zion Human History Museum, Springdale, Utah.
Dondero earned her
B.F.A. at Roger Williams University in Bristol RI
M.A.T. from Rhode Island School of Design
M.F.A. from U-Mass Dartmouth.
Her studio is located in Warren Rhode Island.
For the past twelve years Dondero has served as Exhibition Curator at the Bristol Art Museum, in Bristol RI, where she also serves as a board Director. In this capacity Dondero has established the Museum’s permanent collection of works on paper, and has actively promoted both regional and national artists. A few of the noteworthy exhibits she has organized are Word Transformed, Summer Dreams & Myth, Contemporary Women, and Kaleidoscope.
Additionally, In 2003 Dondero was one of the founding artists for Imago Gallery, in Warren, RI, an artist co-op. In 2007 she assisted the organization in establishing Imago Foundation for the Arts a 501-c-3 organization. IFA is recognized as a place where artists explore their creativity within a brick and mortar exhibition space with the additional business focus on art programming that serves the public.
Dondero is currently a full-time tenured faculty member in the Department of Art and Art History at Bridgewater State University, in Massachusetts. During her 2011 sabbatical from teaching Dondero was awarded “Artist in Resident” at Zion National Park in Utah. This resulted in a body of work titled “Perception, Time & Memory”, with one of the resulting paintings now held in the permanent collection at Zion Human History Museum, Springdale, Utah.
Dondero earned her
B.F.A. at Roger Williams University in Bristol RI
M.A.T. from Rhode Island School of Design
M.F.A. from U-Mass Dartmouth.
Her studio is located in Warren Rhode Island.
