March Art Exhibit
Friday, March 13 - Tuesday, March 31
Mary Roberts (North Room) and Maureen Ahern & Paul Cooper (South Room)
Multi - Media : Paintings, Clay Sculpture, Assemblages
Available for viewing and for sale during Dubhub open hours:
Mon 10 -12 , Tues 9am-3pm & Wed 10-3 or by appointment.
For more information or to make an appointment email Monica Lasky at info@dublincommunitycenter.org
Fruitful 36” x 24” x 19” by Mary Roberts
Mary Roberts is a ceramic artist currently based in Dublin, NH. Her work explores imagined domesic spaces, building tableau and installaion of colorfully animated household and everyday objects to create narra6ve and spark curiosity. She currently holds a position as a Lecturer at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH, and an artist-in-residence during the academic year at MAXT Ceramics Center in Dublin, NH. 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 exhibitons in the United States and Denmark.
Acrylic on Canvas by Maureen Ahern
Maureen Ahern (Peterborough, NH) is a mixed-media artist whose work transforms found materials into vibrant, reflective 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. As the viewer moves in front of the work, the image changes its color.
Ahern has always worked to use art to enrich life, not as an art historian but to give people an experience they might not have normally. 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. She also created a biennial series of juried exhibits to give local artists an exhibiting venue at the Thorne. During her 34 years as director of the Thorne-Sagendorph Gallery (she retired in 2015), her goal in her position was also to serve the community as well as the college. 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”.
Paul R. Cooper
Paul R. Cooper (Dublin, NH) is a sculptor and mixed-media artist known for transforming found wood and metal into figurative assemblages with a whimsical, rhythmic energy. He attended Boston University, Bennington College (BA) and Goddard College (MA). He has shown at several different galleries and at the Mouth Holyoke College Museum . 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.
His works are built from salvaged fragments—weathered wood, rusted hardware, bent nails, and other discarded detritus—reimagined as dancing, expressive figures or objects that seem poised in motion and play. Cooper’s creative alchemy lies in his ability to coax personality and narrative from inanimate materials. A twisted piece of scrap metal can become an arm thrust skyward; a jagged sliver of wood curves into the suggestion of a joyful leap. The pieces are often assembled with visible glue lines and joinery, celebrating both handcrafted immediacy and the honesty of imperfection. The resulting sculptures and collages carry a whimsical bent—less about polished realism and more about gesture, humor, and spirit. They occupy a space where folk art meets contemporary assemblage: forms that dance, jostle, and engage the viewer with a sense of playfulness. Cooper’s art invites us to see beauty and emotion in the discarded, the overlooked remnants of industrial and natural detritus with movement, character, with a light-hearted touch.