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Life's stories plant seeds in my mind, take shape in my soul, and are born through my sculptures.

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About Serena Bates
Awards & Recognition
Earlier Exhibitions (2018 - 2013)

Recent Exhibitions

Elected Artist Annual Exhibition
Jan 30 - Feb 29, 2020
Mystic Museum of Art
Mystic CT

Hygienic Art XLI
Salon Des Independants
Jan 25 - Feb 8, 2020
Hygienic Art Gallery
New London, CT

Color Connections
Jan 9 - Apr 2, 2020
Copley Society of Art
Newbury St, Boston, MA

CLWAC 123 Annual Open Juried Show
Jan 7 - Jan 31, 2020
National Arts Club
New York, NY

2019

Deck the Walls
Nov 22, 2019 - Jan 3, 2020
Lyme Art Association
Old Lyme, CT

Holiday Small Works Show
Nov 14 - Dec 23, 2019
Copley Society of Art
Boston, MA

91st Grand National, American Artists Professional League
Nov 11 - 22, 2019
Salmagundi Club
New York, NY
Juror: Adam Eaker The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mystic International
Sep 28 - Dec 2019
Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport
Mystic, CT

New England Landscape
Sep 27 - Nov 15, 2019
Lyme Art Association
Old Lyme, CT
Juror: Neal Hughes

EMBARK - Small Works Show
Sep 6 - Nov 7, 2019
Copley Society of Art
Boston, MA

SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT SCULPTORS SCULPTURE EXHIBIT
Aug 9 - Sep 20, 2019
Lyme Art Association
Old Lyme, CT

Fresh Expressions: Late Summer Painting & Sculpture
Aug 9 - Sep 20, 2019
Lyme Art Association
Old Lyme, CT
Opening Reception: Friday, August 16, 2019, 5-7pm

Water Works, Marine Art Exhibition
Jun 14 - Aug 2, 2019
Lyme Art Association
Old Lyme, CT
Juror: Karen Blackwood

Hudson Valley Art Association 86th Annual National Juried Exhibition
Jun 14 - Aug 2, 2019
Lyme Art Association
Old Lyme, CT
Juror: Don and Sharon Gale, Daniel Green, Janet Cook

The Birds and the Bees
Jun 5 - 30, 2019
Avondale Arts
Avondale, RI

69th Annual National Exhibition of Traditional Realism
Jun 2 - 3, 2019
Academic Artists Association
Arts Center East, Vernon, CT
Jurors: Sandra and Susan Wakeen

CHANGING LANDSCAPE, SCULPTURE AT THE EUSTIS ESTATE
Jun - Nov, 2019
New England Sculptors Association
Historic New England, Eustis Mansion Estate
Milton, MA

CLWAC 2019 Annual Members' Online Show
Jun 1 - Aug 31, 2019
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club

2019 Regional Exhibition
May 2 - Jun 2, 2019
Artists Cooperative Gallery of Westerly
Westerly, RI
Juror: Anthony Tomaselli

EVOLVING - Small Works Show
May - Jun, 2019
Copley Society of Art
Boston, MA

2019 ANNUAL MEMBERS EXHIBITION
Apr 28 - May 8, 2019
Salmagundi Club, NY, NY
Reception May 8, 6-9 pm.
"Enlightened", Award of Honor

"Point of View"
Apr 26 - Jun 7, 2019
Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, CT
Juror: Douglas Hyland, Former Director New Britain Museum of American Art

98th Annual Elected Artists Show
Apr 26 - Jun 7, 2019
Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, CT
Juror: Rebekah Beaulieu, PHD, Director Florence Griswold Museum

CONNECTICUT ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS
Apr 19 - Jun 1, 2019
Mystic Museum of Art
Mystic, CT

My Best Friend Forever
Apr 7 - May 9, 2019
Charles Fine Arts
Gloucester, MA

CROSSINGS - CROSSING THE BRIDGE
Mar 23 - Apr 20, 2019
Hygienic Gallery
New London, CT
Jurors: Aly Maderson Quinlog, Kamar Thomas

EXHIBITION IN FOUR ACTS - Animal Kingdom
Mar 8 - Apr 19, 2019
LYME ART ASSOCIATION
90 Lyme St, Old Lyme, CT
Jurors: Brian Keith Stephens, Wildlife Painter

Black & White Exhibition
Jan 25 - Feb 14, 2019
Salmagundi Club
47 5th Ave, New York, NY 10003

75th ANNUAL CT ARTISTS JURIED EXHIBITION
Jan 13 - Mar 15, 2019
Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT
Juror: Juror is Douglas Hyland, retired director of the New Britain Museum of American Art (NBMAA)

Fruition
Jan 10 - Apr 28, 2019
Copley Society, Newbury St, Boston

122nd ANNUAL CLWAC OPEN JURIED EXHIBITION
Jan 8, 2019 - Jan 25, 2019
National Arts Club, Gramercy, NY
Jurors: Thayer Tolles - Marica F. Vilcek Curator, American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art & Donald Gale, Professor Emeritus and a founding Professor of the Lyme Academy College of Fine Art, Fellow NSS


View Earlier Exhibitions, 2018 - 2013