Thank you to the Wickford Art Association. The exhibit continues through June 18.

​ wickfordart.org/exhibits-current.html

I am thrilled to have received a second place award for my photo of the "White Glove" at the Hygienic Art Gallery for the f-stops photo show, juried by Mattias Lundblad and Pola Esther.  My two other photos were also juried in the photo show:  The Kittens and The Pink Hair.

NEWPORT ANNUAL MEMBERS’ JURIED EXHIBITION 2016
Through May 22 
Newport Art Museum76 Bellevue Ave., Newport

By Alexander Castro | Mercury
Maria Scaglione won an Honorable Mention in the latter category for “The Parrot,” which stars Marsha, an elderly woman the Westerly artist met at a flea market. The young Marsha was an adventurous dresser, and Scaglione explains: “No one corrected her…Marsha continued to dress exactly the way she wanted all her life.” Resplendent in a leopard print coat and sunglasses adorned with tiny parrots, Marsha is straight from a John Waters movie. Scaglione’s skill is clearly displayed in her empathetic and fashionable rendition of this fierce and eccentric model.
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Photographers offer Eclectic Mix at ACGOW exhibit
Published: January 28, 2016 | Last Modified: January 28, 2016 04:34PM
By NANCY BURNS-FUSARO Sun Staff WriterWESTERLY — Nino Trovato had already selected the work he planned to share in the upcoming Hoxie Gallery exhibit “Photo-Op: A Mix of Eclectic Local Photographers.”

I am thrilled to announce that this July I have received an Assets for Artists grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Additional funding comes from the US Department of Agriculture, the New England Foundation for the Arts and Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA).

Here is the text from the Assets for Artists "Artist Spotlight" webpage:

http://assetsforartists.org/2015/06/15/artist-spotlight-maria-scaglione/

Photographer Maria Scaglione is another fabulous new creative in our rural Rhode Island program. Maria creates fine art and commercial photography from her studio in Westerly, RI.

Maria works primarily in portraiture. Maria’s lineage is Italian-American, and many of her portraits feature members of her immediate family, carrying on their old-world traditions in small-town America. Her portraits feature these eclectic, familial characters in intimate spaces; Maria refers to her images as a “small museum of humanity filled with dreams and desires.” Maria’s portraiture is striking both for its eccentricity and its tenderness.

Maria also works commercially from her Westerly studio, with a focus on
weddings and engagements. Drawing from her experience in portraiture and photo journalism, Maria effortlessly captures the full emotion of a couple’s special day.

Maria earned her B.F.A. from Rhode Island College with a focus in Sculpture. She received her M.F.A. from the School of Visual of Arts for photography and related media. Maria also studied in northern Italy and apprenticed in a marble-carving studio under master crafter Alessandra Ricci, where she learned to carve marble with pneumatic tools and by hand. Maria has shown her work in such venues as the Newport Art Museum in Newport RI, Kiernan Gallery in Lexington, VA, the Essex Art Gallery in Essex, CT, Slater Museum in Norwich CT, and Thread Waxing Space in New York, NY. She has received the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship in Photography and the Anthony Cerino Fellowship from the School of Visual Arts.