The public is invited to view an exhibition featuring paintings, clay sculptures, and assemblages by multi-media artists, Mary Roberts, Maureen Ahern, and Paul Cooper throughout the month of March.
Ceramic artist Mary Roberts, currently based in Dublin, NH, is a lecturer at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH, and an artist-in-residence at MAXT Ceramics Center in Dublin, NH. Her work explores imagined domestic spaces, building tableau and installation of colorfully animated household and everyday objects to create narrative and spark curiosity. She received a Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics in 2023 from Indiana University Bloomington, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics from NYSCC at Alfred University in 2009. She was an artist-in-residence at Starworks in NC in 2025, Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center in Skaelskor, Denmark in 2012, and at Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York in 2017. She has exhibited her work in various solo and group exhibitions in the United States and Denmark.
Maureen Ahern of Peterborough, NH, is a mixed-media artist whose work transforms found materials into vibrant visual narratives. She received her BFA from UMass Amherst and her MA in painting from SUNY Albany. Her artwork focuses on the natural world, using reflective materials, acrylics and interference paint. She worked as Exhibits Curator at the Albany Institute of History and Art before becoming the Director of the Thorne -Sagendorph Art Gallery at Keene State College where she stayed for 34 years, retiring in 2015. Additionally, she founded and was president of the New Hampshire Visual Arts Coalition, an organization which promoted NH arts throughout the state and beyond. Before retiring, she received a grant to travel to the former Soviet Republic of Georgia to update their National Museum of Art to current standards in Museology and Education. Her own art work has been exhibited in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New York and in private and public collections. Reviews have appeared in “Revue Moderne des Arts et de la Vies”.
Sculptor and mixed-media artist, Paul R. Cooper of Dublin, NH is known for transforming found wood and metal into figurative assemblages reimagined as dancing, expressive figures with a whimsical, rhythmic energy that invites viewers to see beauty and emotion in the discarded, overlooked remnants. He attended Boston University, Bennington College (BA) and Goddard College (MA). He has taught at Massachusetts College of Art, University of Iowa and Keene State College and has been in residence at The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo and the Millay Colony, and has shown at the Mount Holyoke College Museum and several other galleries.