ABOUT
Beverly O’Mara is a multidisciplinary, process-based artist. For three decades, she exhibited her artwork nationally in gallery and museum shows. During the last fifteen years, Bev divided her time between teaching, traveling, and learning art techniques from cultures that use natural materials. She studied the nomadic tradition of yurt making and felting in Kyrgyzstan. In Japan and Scotland, Bev learned eastern and western papermaking techniques. On a trip to Kenya, Bev worked with the Greenbelt Movement to absorb how sustainable planting techniques promote environmentalism and democracy. Back in the United States, Bev took courses and did independent study at the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York, and the Takaezu Studio in Flemington, NJ. She incorporates these experiences into her studio practice in Jersey City, where she lives and works.