B. Amore (née Bernadette D’Amore)
www.bamore.com
b@bamore.com
PO Box 191
Benson, VT 05731(mail)
802-273-2278
123 Prince Street #2
New York, NY 10012
917-748-3661
21 Linden Circle
Waltham, MA 02452
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, Alexandria, 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
2010
2008
2008
2007
2004
2003
“Naples – New York,” Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, NY
“Street Calligraphies,” Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA
“Traces,” Garibaldi Meucci Museum, Staten Island, NY, Emily Gear, curator
“Heads, Hands and Hearts,” Gallery in the Field, Brandon, VT.
“The Working Hand and other Stories,” Gallery at 259 Marble Street, W. Rutland, VT
“Memory and History: The Art of B. Amore and Pauline Jakobsberg,” Godwin Ternbach
Museum, Queens College, Flushing, NY
“La Madonna Nera,” Italian American Museum, New York, NY
“Filo della Vita Photographs” Palazzo Vanvitelliano, Mercato San Severino, Italy
2002
2001
2000
1998
1997
1995
1992
1990
1981-93
1988
1986
“LIFELINE Photographs,” Galleria 54, Rome, Italy
“La Madonna Nera,” Genesis II Museum of Black Culture, New York, NY
“Filo della Vita Photographs”, Teatro di Chieti, Chieti, Italy
“LIFELINE- Filo della Vita,” Dreams of Freedom Museum, Boston, MA
“LIFELINE – Filo della Vita, ” Ellis Island Immigration Museum, Ellis Island, New York
"Opening Windows in Time,” Lower East Side Tenement Museum, NY, New York
"Following The Thread,” SOHO 20 GALLERY, NY, NY
"From Whence I Came,” NO B.I.A.S. GALLERY, No. Bennington, Vt.
"Archeologies of the Spirit,” BROMFIELD GALLERY, Boston, MA
"Views," Sculptural installation at PARAMOUNT THEATRE, Rutland, VT
Open Studio: WALTHAM MILL ARTISTS, Waltham, MA
"Sculptural Inquiries," LACOSTE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, Lacoste, France
"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
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