Rebecca Maloney (she/her) is a visual artist and facilitator located in West Hartford, Connecticut. Her artwork expresses the delight of found material, the beauty of the living world, and the sensitivities of her internal world.
Growing up she was influenced by the strong family value of creativity, her four older siblings, (especially all of their varied musical tastes), and friends who shared interest in imaginative play. Along with family time she also enjoyed quiet periods alone with her cat and sketchbook.
In high school, art class was a refuge where she felt at home. It wasn’t until this time, did Rebecca realize that throughout her young life, art was a way to understand the world and herself.
In college, she studied drawing and painting and grew an interest in history and the natural world. A few years after graduating, she acquired a box of her grandmother Marjorie’s magazines from the 1960’s, and began using collage in her work. Over the last 20 years Rebecca has had periods going back and forth between working in collage, paint, and sometimes both. More recently collage has been a wonderful contemplative tool for discovery that parallels her meditation practice.
Rebecca is a white, cis, able bodied woman, living with her partner, and their dog Bleu. When she isn’t creating art she loves visiting with her friends and family, reading non-fiction, gardening, and re-watching her favorite 80’s movies.
Exhibitions
2020 “Rituals of Resistance” Nasty Women Connecticut, The Urban Collective, Group Exhibition, New Haven CT
2019 Upward Hartford, Solo Exhibition, Hartford, CT
2019 Annual Arts of Tolland Juried Group Art Show, The Arts Center of Tolland, Tolland, CT
2019 The Mythology Show Group Exhibition, curated by Antony Zito, Hartford, CT
2018 Faber Birren National Color Award Show, Group Exhibition, Stamford, CT
2018 Whittemore Library, Solo Exhibition, Naugatuck, CT
2017 The Nasty Woman Art Exhibit, Group Exhibition, Institute Library, New Haven, CT
2017 Art for the Soul, Group Exhibition, Hartford, CT
2017 Wood Memorial Library, Solo Exhibition, South Windsor, CT
2013 Ganesha Center, Solo Exhibition, Las Vegas, NV
Community Engagement
2020 #ArtUnquarantined, co-facilitated with fellow abstract visual artist and professor, Diana Aldrete - a 4-week virtual gathering of art journaling and creative art making via Instagram to address the quarantine shut down.
2019 Cross-Cultural Art, Music, Dance Fundraising Event, June, Hartford, CT
2017 United Arts Campaign Fundraiser with The Greater Hartford Arts Council, October, Hartford, CT
2016 - 2023 Set Design ActUp Theater, Hartford, CT
2005 Secretary on the Board of Directors of Artworks Gallery, Hartford, CT
2003 Internship, Hartbeat Ensemble, Theater for Active Change, Hartford, CT
Publications/Press
2020 “Rebecca Maloney’s Mixed Media Methods & Materials” Dan Deutsch, Greater Hartford Arts Council
2020 “Creating Art in 2020” Interview with Bella Zadore of Art Plus Studio
2019 State of the Arts & Arts Hall of Fame Inductee as Individual Artist, Manchester, CT
2019 Illustration for “Stuey & Veronica” a children’s book written by Teresa Pelham
2017 “I Believe in Artists” Victoria Lynn Hall, Blog Interview Feature
Education
2022 Mindfulness Based Stress Relief Course, Copper Beech Institute, West Hartford, CT
2021 Uconn Master Gardener
2019 June Alumni Fellowship, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
2005 The Abruzzi Mountain Workshop with Patricia Antoucci, Anversa, Italy (study in collage and drawing)
1999-2003 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
1998 Hartford CT University, Art Programs in Drawing, Sculpture, Stone Carving, and Illustration
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