The
Art of Mary Westring
Ms.
Westring received her training at the University of Wisconsin and the
Ruth Leaf Workshop. She was a founding member of the Graphic Eye Gallery
in Port Washington, NY and has taught printmaking at the L.I. Arts Council
at Freeport that awarded her with the "Arty" for excellence
in the visual arts. She has had numerous one-woman exhibitions, including
two at Figureworks, the Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts, Recent Works
Gallery in Lancaster, Pa, the Princeton Art
Association, the Silvermine Guild of Artists and an exhibit entitled "Hiroshima:
Questions" in Sapporo, Japan, where she lived and painted for one
year. Her work is in many private and corporate collections.
Following
are a few examples of her recent works on paper entitled Children of
Conflict. This series confronts the ongoing abduction of children
in Uganda who are taken by guerilla war lords for conversion training
and labor. Ms. Westring and her brothers have worked for many years to
bring attention to this crisis and have set up a site for awareness at
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