Education:

            Beaver Country Day School, graduated 1961

            Connecticut College for Women, BA, 1965

Heartwood College of Art, ongoing studies with Janet Manyan, Norman West, Dewitt Hardy, Don Gorvett, Patty Benson, Tom Huber, et al.

Maine  College of Art, Ongoing studies with Stephen Burt, Janet Manyan

Exhibits:

            North Haven Art Assoc, ME                            Maine Women in the Arts Shows

            River Ridge Shows  Art Guild of the Kennebunks Shows  Conn. Art Assoc. Conn  45o Gallery, 2-person shows Lyman Allyn Museum, Conn. Ogunquit Art Assoc. The Park School Faculty Show, MA  Number Two Marlborough StreetThe Ogunquit Gallery, ME  Gallery, Newport, RI  York Art Assoc., ME  Clown Gallery, Portland Cygnet Gallery, Portland   Heartwood College of Art The Brick Store Museum  River Tree Center for the Art New Era Gallery, Vinalhaven Mast Cove Gallerie Marshall Store Gallery, York, ME Camden Falls Gallery

Memberships and Affiliations:

  45o Gallery   Art Guild of the Kennubunks  Ogunquit Art Association  River Tree Center for the Arts, New Era Gallery, Vinalhaven Faculty and Staff

Awards:

            Boston Globe Editors’ Club

            Best of Show; First, Second, Third Prize and Honorable Mentions in the  York Art Assoc. Maine Women in the Arts and Art Guild of the Kennebunks to present

Hara discovered her creative bent early in life.  She married in 1966 and moved to Maine permanently in 1969.  She continues to maintain a summer home in Vinalhaven, ME.  The creative process has always been a major force in Hara’s life as has her need to be on or near the ocean.  Although Hara’s earliest training was as a printmaker and oil painter, she has renewed passions for pastel, watercolor and clay, both as a sculptor and potter.  She continues to be intrigued by the human form and works often from live models.  Hara experiences great beauty, peace and joy in her natural surrounds and journeys to her heart’s source with depth of vision and bold powerful expression.  She portrays her visual and spiritual experience of color, line, form and light with vitality and passion.  Hara is currently employed as Gallery Manager for the Irvine and Performance Hall Galleries at River Tree Center for the Arts as well as Assistant Registrar.

 hmharding@adelphia.net