Sara T. Gately, based in Hyde Park, received her M.ED in Art Education from Lesley University in Cambridge MA. She is a Licensed Art Educator. She also received her B.A in Comparative Religion and Visual Art form Hampshire College, Amherst, MA where is majored in theater with a minor in creative writing. She is currently an art teacher at the Holy Name Parish School in West Roxbury. She has exhibited widely in solo and group shows and has been published as well. See the complete list at the bottom of this page.
Exhibitions: Portraits in Refuge
Artist Statement:
Sara Gately is a 2D Visual Artist and K-8 Art Teacher. She has been practicing the Visual Arts for over ten years and has exhibited in group and solo shows throughout the New England area. In many ancient cultures, animals were considered to possess symbolic powers and were venerated, respected and worshipped. Gately believes that it is time to return to a similar system of thinking, in order to ensure our spiritual, as well as our literal survival. Gately believes that humans and animals possess souls and her artwork calls upon the viewer to witness the soul of the animal depicted. In this visual process, it is Gately’s goal to not only create empathy, but to deepen the viewer’s humanity.
For the last few years, Gately has been creating a series of animal portraits in order to inspire empathy and compassion in the hearts and minds of the viewers of her work. Gately’s portraits are a reaction to increasing environmental concerns. Animal habitats are consistently threatened by encroaching human development. Factory farms have taken over the food industry and a variety of species are becoming endangered and extinct due to environmental pollution and illegal poaching. It is Gately’s aim to call attention to the dire need for humans to have compassion for animals. In having compassion for other living beings, by allowing ourselves to understand that animals possess feelings and thoughts, people can widen their understanding of the natural world and thereby better understand themselves.
Exhibits and Publications:
Visiting Artist for MBACC’s Open Studios, December 2017
Solo Exhibition at the Brockton Library, “Venerate”, October 2017
Figment, “Venerate”, Rose Kennedy Greenway, July 2017
Solo Exhibition, “Venerate, Hyde Park Library, June 2017
“Moving Parts” a group Exhibition, Post Office Gallery in North Truro, May-July 2017
“Reclaimed”, Group Exhibition, Mosesian Center for the Arts, April-July 2017
L.A. Art Guide, “Embrace Our Animals”, April 2017-April 2018, International Animal Art Showcase
Featured Artist for Flame an online LGBTQ Literary Magazine, April 2017
Solo Exhibition, Sister Sorel/Controlled Kaos Productions, March 2017
Honorable Mention, International Gallery of Artists, “Love”
EcoExhibit, Group Exhibition, Lesley University, January 2017
Solo Exhibition, Watertown Public Library, December 2016
Visiting Artist at the Motherbrook Artist Community Center, Open Studios, November 2016
The Road Less Traveled, Dedham Square Artist Guild Sept./Oct. 2016
Play Me I’m Yours, Boston Street Pianos, Celebrity Series, Summer 2016
Compassion: An Exhibition to Benefit Amirah, Porter Mill Studios, August 2016
Art on the Brewery Walls, Jamaica Plain Brewery Complex, May 2016
Milton Art Center First Annual Juried Exhibition, March 2016
Winter Wonders Exhibit at the ArcWorks Community Art Center in Peabody, Winter 2016
Arts Benefit for the Boston Rape Crisis Center, 2015
Auction to Benefit the Holy Name Parish School Playground Fund, 2015
Violence Transformed, Group Exhibitions, Boston 2014
Wild Woman Rising Publication, December 2013
Solo Exhibition at The Out of Blue Gallery, Sep/Oct 2013
Open House at Paris Street Galleries, September 2013
Figment, July 2013, “Looking Through” An interactive arts Festival in which Boston participants could create artwork “like the artist” ie permanent markers on acetate
Boston City Hall, Artists Beyond Challenges Exhibit, July/August 2013
Salem Arts Festival, June 2013
Muralist at Bartlett Yard, May 2013
Group Show at the Equal Exchange Café, April/May 2013
Layers: Forced Unity, Hidden Subjects, Cambridge School of Weston, April 2013
RAW Boston Muralist, March 2013
Featured Artist at the Artist Crossing Gallery, March 2013
“Alt Conference” Gallery 360 at Northeastern University, March 2013
“Grayscale” Group Exhibition, UFORGE Gallery, March 2013
“META”, Group Exhibition, Gallery 263, December 2012
Boston Raw Artist of the Year Semi Finals Exhibition Event, November 18th 2012
November’s Featured Monthly Artist for the Boston Spectrum an online Art Zine
Hyde Park Open Studios, October 2012
A Live Art Event, Jamaica Plain August 17th, 2012
Desiderata, Cambridge July 2012
1369 Coffee Shop, Featured Artist, Cambridge June 2012
Solstice, RAW Arts Showcase at the Estate, Boston June 15th, 2012
Out of the Blue Gallery, Cambridge May, 2012
Pieces of Peace 2006
Curated an exhibition at the Kidspace gallery at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in July of 2007