About  Jane
email
Phone
603.793.9789

Exhibits &
Performances

Read Jane's
Message
delivered to
9-11 Families
for Peaceful Tomorrows
on their 'Stonewalk'
from Boston to New York during the last
presidential elections
www.peacefultomorrows.org

Listen to an hour long interview
with Jane
www.planetary-spirit.com 

In memory of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, there will be a special
Evening of Transformation



Where: The Actor's Studio of Newburyport The Tannery, Mill #1, suite #5
When: 6pm, Saturday August 9, 2008
Questions?  Call (603) 793-9789

Tickets are $15. Please reserve by calling (978) 465-1229.
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" I seem to be trying to change the world through my art, in whatever form. Sometimes I am just trying to wake myself up ~ to tell myself the truth, or give myself a gift...But often I am following a calling that gives me the strength to enter extraordinary places and find the heart. It can be a perilous journey: Auschwitz and Hiroshima have hearts wrapped in unbearable pain. Strangely, we need that pain to understand ourselves, and to love again. Art can be quite a magician in this alchemy. There is nothing I would  rather be doing than what I am doing"

'Art, and the Conversion of the Heart' Jane Smith Bernhardt - Artist  Information Jane is a third-generation portrait artist who has done commissions in charcoal and pastel on Boston's North Shore for the past twenty-three years. She has had numerous exhibits in this area, and taught portrait classes in charcoal and pastel, created and led workshops in art and drama for schools, delivered lectures on art and social change, and facilitated many retreats. Jane is also a trained actress (a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Manhattan), who worked in stage and television in the New York area before moving to the East Coast. She has traveled extensively with her visual art exhibits and original solo dramatic performances. Finding in art a pathway to the heart and spirit, Bernhardt uses creativity as a vehicle for human transformation.  Jane's traveling visual art exhibits are: 'Faces of the Faceless' - Created during the Cold War, 'Faces' portrays Russian patriots and poets, to give a human face to the enemy. 'Faces of Resistance' - Portraits and poetry, focusing on personal resistance to injustice. (Plowshares prisoners, Sanctuary defendants, Salvadoran refugees) 'Dinner at St. Paul's - Portraits of guests of an inner-city feeding ministry and their poems. 'The Hibakusha Peace Project' - A series of collage portraits of A-Bomb survivors, accompanied by their stories and poems. Dramatic performances include: Julia Ward Howe - Crusader for World Peace. Encounters - Series of dramatic vignettes based on New Testament encounters. The Hibakusha Peace Project / Performance - Featuring music by Greta Bro / Peter Meyer and dance by Minori Ishikawa.

Jane teaches and lectures on a variety of topics including portraiture, resistance and social transformation. Contact Jane for details.