B. Amore (née Bernadette D’Amore) PO Box 191 123 Prince Street #2 21 Linden Circle
www.bamore.com Benson, VT 05731(mail) New York, NY 10012 Waltham, MA 02452
b@bamore.com 802-273-2278 917-748-3661 781-373-2465
EDUCATION:
Boston University, 1964
University of Rome, Italy, 1962-63
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1971
Massachusetts College of Art, 1971
Accademia di Belle Arti, Carrara, Italy, 1982-83
Independent Studio Work, Carrara, Italy, 1980-1990
AWARDS
Vermont Council on the Arts, Citation of Merit, 2004
Mellon Fellowship Foundation Grant, 1988
Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship, 1982
Waltham Arts Council, 1983, 1984, 1985
New England Sculptors Association Prize Show, First Prize, 1981
Marin Society of Artists Annual Show, First Prize, 1978
Summerfest, Brockton, MA, First Prize in Sculpture, 1977
PUBLIC ART
Condor Street Urban Wild, Boston, MA; Commission Award, 2003
Chelsea Creek Clipper, Condor Street Urban Wild, Boston, MA; Commission award with Woody Dorsey, 2002, installation 2003
Potomac Garden, Potomac Yards, Environmental Protection Agency, Arlington, VA; Commission Award with Woody Dorsey, 2002, installation 2006
Pillars of Humanity, University of Colorado at Boulder, Humanities Bldg. Boulder,Co.Commission Award with Woody Dorsey, 1998, installation 1999
Council Ring, Annmarie Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Solomons, Md. Public Art Commission Award with Woody Dorsey, 1995, installation 1996
Transiting, Boat as Metaphor, Three Rivers Rowing Assoc., Pittsburgh, Pa., Purchase Award 1997
Ark of Promise, Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, Glen Rose, Tx., Commission 1994
Peace Thrones, Lion and the Lamb Peace Arts Center, Bluffton, Ohio,
Commission award with Woody Dorsey 1992, installation 1993,
Mura-oka Cho International Sculpture Symposium, Mura-oka Cho, Japan, Invited Artist,1992
Place of Healing Stones, Marble Street Sculpture Park, W. Rutland, VT; Vermont Bicentennial Sculpture Symposium, 1991, collaboration with Woody Dorsey
Kan-Ze-On, Kikuchi-Kougen International Sculpture Symposium 1991, Kikuchi, Japan, Finalist
PUBLICATIONS
Amore B. An Italian American Odyssey: Through Ellis Island and Beyond:
Life line, filo della vita (New York: Center for Migration Studies, 2006).
Amore B. Carving out a Dream: (Kokoro Press, 2008)
Amore B. Invisible Odysseys: Art by Mexican Farmworkers in Vermont; (Kokoro Press 2010)
Books (included in)
Del Giudice, Luisa. Oral History, Oral Culture, and Italian Americans(Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
Ceramella, N. and Massara, G. ‘Merica: Forme della Cultura Italoamericana ( Quaderni sull’emigrazione, 2004)
Cheney, Liana De Girolami,ed. Essays on Women Artists “The Most Excellent (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2003)
Messina, Elizabeth G. In Our Own Voices (Bordighera Press, 2003)
Watson-Jones, Elizabeth, Contemporary American Women Sculptors (1986)
SELECTED SOLO EXIBITIONS
2011 “Naples – New York,” Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, NY
2010 “Street Calligraphies,” Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA
2008 “Traces,” Garibaldi Meucci Museum, Staten Island, NY, Emily Gear, curator
2008 “Heads, Hands and Hearts,” Gallery in the Field, Brandon, VT.
2007 “The Working Hand and other Stories,” Gallery at 259 Marble Street, W. Rutland, VT
2004 “Memory and History: The Art of B. Amore and Pauline Jakobsberg,”
Godwin Ternbach Museum, Queens College, Flushing, NY, Amy Winter, curator
Cont.
2003 “La Madonna Nera,” Italian American Museum, New York, NY
“Filo della Vita Photographs” Palazzo Vanvitelliano, Mercato San Severino, Italy
“LIFELINE Photographs,” Galleria 54, Rome, Italy
“La Madonna Nera,” Genesis II Museum of Black Culture, New York, NY
2002 “Filo della Vita Photographs”, Teatro di Chieti, Chieti, Italy
2001 “LIFELINE- Filo della Vita,” Dreams of Freedom Museum, Boston, MA
2000 “LIFELINE – Filo della Vita, ” Ellis Island Immigration Museum, Ellis Island, New York
1998 "Opening Windows in Time,” Lower East Side Tenement Museum, NY, New York
1997 "Following The Thread,” SOHO 20 GALLERY, NY, NY
1995 "From Whence I Came,” NO B.I.A.S. GALLERY, No. Bennington, Vt.
1992 "Archeologies of the Spirit,” BROMFIELD GALLERY, Boston, MA
1990 "Views," Sculptural installation at PARAMOUNT THEATRE, Rutland, VT
1981-93 Open Studio: WALTHAM MILL ARTISTS, Waltham, MA
1988 "Sculptural Inquiries," LACOSTE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, Lacoste, France
1986 "New Work," ATRIA GALLERY, Hartford, CT
COLLECTIONS (public)
Potomac Yards, Environmental Protection Agency
Italian American Museum, New York, NY
Condor Street Urban Wild, City of Boston
University of Colorado at Boulder
AnnMarie Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
Three Rivers Rowing Association
Fossil Rim Wildlife Center
Lion and the Lamb Peace Arts Center
Reimei Hill Sculpture Park
Marble Street Sculpture Park
New Barre City Elementary School
Massachusetts Medical Society
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Boston Sculptors Gallery
SOHO 20 Chelsea Gallery
International Sculpture Center
The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center
Vermont Council on the Arts
National Organization of Italian American Women
Italian American Writers’ Association
American Italian Historical Association
Harbor Arts Artists’ Advisory Board
TEACHING (selected)
1986- 2008 Founder, Former Director, Instructor, Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, W. Rutland, VT
1994-Present Co-founder: Kokoro Studio Retreat Center, Castleton, VT
1991-2002 Vermont College, Montpelier, VT
1998-99 Castleton State College, Castleton, VT
1984-92 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
All images & text © copyright 2006 by B. Amore