Wooster
I am trying to embrace what William Wordsworth calls “the light of common day.” It’s impossible to make it through life unscathed or undistracted by the rush of daily obligations, insecurities and aspirations. Yet, in the quieter hours, I find myself thinking about how we are only here, in ourselves, this space, this moment, so briefly — it is, indeed, all we ever have until we go wherever it is we go next. But, until then, I’d like to live everything — to hear the bass of the car radio in my chest, the roll of laugher in conversation, to smell the sun on the sidewalk, or to see the way it hits my window in morning... In this way, I think, the grey of passing days can still be viewed with childlike wonder, yet with the sobering retrospect that things go forward — that the new becomes familiar, but beauty is there if you look, and memory is the stardust that shoots out of the blackhole that is grief.
And we take this weight, and we get on.
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I make art because I need to. James Baldwin said it best in Sonny's Blues, "For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness."
Education
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Roger Williams University, Class of 2019
President's Core Values Medallion Recipient and Class Marshall
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Bachelors of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
Bachelors of Social and Environmental Advocacy
Minor of Visual Arts: Photography/ Digital Media
Exhibitions/Publications
2024
in the wake of things that tell, Solo Exhibition Mix Art Gallery, Ithaca NY
The Space We Hold, Figurative Exhibition, DeBlois Gallery, Middletown RI
October Feature Artist at The Collaborative Gallery, Warren RI
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2023
October Feature Artist at The Collaborative Gallery, Warren RI
Artistic Collaborators: Jeremy Schilling and Adrienne Wooster - Inside Art with Michael Rose
Opening for a Cause with Studio29 & Jeremy Schilling Fine Art
Collaborative Tiny Works Show, Warren RI
Pawtucket Arts Collaborative Spring Members Show
The Big Show at IMAGO Gallery, Warren RI
Black + White Juried Exhibition, Bristol Art Museum @ Rogers Free Library, Bristol RI
2022
Small Works Show at The Collaborative Gallery, Warren RI
Pawtucket Arts Collaborative Holiday Showcase, Pawtucket RI
October Feature Artist at The Collaborative Gallery, Warren RI
Exhibiting Member at The Collaborative, Warren RI
Pawtucket Arts Collaborative Fall Juried Show
2021
In Cages with Lions - Roger Williams University Curated Alumni Exhibition, Herreshoff Museum
2019
Star Field Flashlight at the Providence WaterFire Arts Center
Undergraduate Photography Now VII at the Photography Resource Center, Lesley Art + Design
®elay - ®Evolution’s Fall Art Show at The Gear Factory, Syracuse, NY
2018
Photograph: "Carnival" – Collision Literary Magazine
Art on Campus Exhibitor at Roger Williams University
Byfield School Student Exhibition, Bristol RI
Selected Awards
2019 RWU Excellence Award in Visual Arts
2018 & 2016 RWU Advanced Writing Contest Award, 1st Place
2017 Roger Williams University W.B. Mason Scholar for Creative Writing
2016 & 2017 Roger Willams University Bermont Fellow
2015 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards – Regional Gold Key Medalist