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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