constance pierce
Constance Pierce is a graduate of the Hoffberger School of Painting of the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore where she studied with renowned expressionist painter, Grace Hartigan. Pierce has exhibited regionally, nationally, in Europe and most recently in Japan. She served as a tenured associate professor of fine art with St. Bonaventure University (NY). Pierce also specializes in offering courses and seminars of her original material titled, “Image Journaling: Creative Renewal and the Journey Inward.”
Her sketchbooks were twice featured in exhibitions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C. Her work resides in the collection of this museum, and the Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution (DC), the rare books collection of the National Gallery of Art Library (DC), the Georgetown University Special Collections (DC), the National Institutes of Health Arts Collection (DC), the International Marion Research Institute of Dayton University (OH), the Yale Center for British Art: Prints and Drawings sketchbook archives, the Yale Haas Art of the Book Special Collections, (CT), the Georgetown University Booth Special Collections (DC), the Baldwin Wallace College Collection (OH), the Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion (DC), Butler, Snow, O'Mara Law Firm (MS), and the Spike Lee Filmworks Headquarters (NYC), as well as numerous private collections.
Over the years her art has been featured in articles and reviews in the Washington Post, Chicago’s New Art Examiner, the Sunday New York Times, the New Haven Register, Journal of the Print Word, the Yale Bulletin, Museum and Arts Washington, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Yale Letters Journal: Literature, Art, Spirit, CIVA Voices 2020, IMAGE: Art, Faith and Mystery literary journal, WETA-TV: PBS station Washington D.C., and published in exhibition catalog texts of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (DC), Visions: Society for the Arts and Healthcare (DC), and the 25th Anniversary Exhibition of the Dadian Gallery at the Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion (DC) among others.
A conference paper Pierce authored, “Opus Cordis: Reflections of a Contemporary Artist Embracing the Drama of Religious Imagery,” is included in Art Inspiring Transmutations of Life of the Analecta Husserliana series edited by Patricia Trutty-Coohill in 2010. Another essay by Pierce titled "Ruach Hakodesh..." was published by Springer International in 2016 for the book The Cosmos and the Creative Imagination. She is currently working on an illustrated text titled Image Journaling: Creative Renewal and the Inward Journey.
Over the years, Pierce has presented at conferences such as the Arts and Aesthetics Conference of the International Society of Phenomenology on the campus of Harvard University in Boston, the Association for Integrative Studies conference at Emory University in Atlanta, the Society for Arts and Healthcare conference in Washington, DC, the American Art Therapy Association conference in Washington, DC, the Theological Aesthetics International conference at St. Bonaventure University, NY, the Association of Core Texts and Courses conference in Atlanta, the Southern Graphics Council conferences in Baltimore and Washington, DC, and the Whole Schools Initiative conference for art educators at Millsaps College in Jackson, MS among others.
Phone: 716-378-8155
Her sketchbooks were twice featured in exhibitions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C. Her work resides in the collection of this museum, and the Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution (DC), the rare books collection of the National Gallery of Art Library (DC), the Georgetown University Special Collections (DC), the National Institutes of Health Arts Collection (DC), the International Marion Research Institute of Dayton University (OH), the Yale Center for British Art: Prints and Drawings sketchbook archives, the Yale Haas Art of the Book Special Collections, (CT), the Georgetown University Booth Special Collections (DC), the Baldwin Wallace College Collection (OH), the Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion (DC), Butler, Snow, O'Mara Law Firm (MS), and the Spike Lee Filmworks Headquarters (NYC), as well as numerous private collections.
Over the years her art has been featured in articles and reviews in the Washington Post, Chicago’s New Art Examiner, the Sunday New York Times, the New Haven Register, Journal of the Print Word, the Yale Bulletin, Museum and Arts Washington, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Yale Letters Journal: Literature, Art, Spirit, CIVA Voices 2020, IMAGE: Art, Faith and Mystery literary journal, WETA-TV: PBS station Washington D.C., and published in exhibition catalog texts of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (DC), Visions: Society for the Arts and Healthcare (DC), and the 25th Anniversary Exhibition of the Dadian Gallery at the Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion (DC) among others.
A conference paper Pierce authored, “Opus Cordis: Reflections of a Contemporary Artist Embracing the Drama of Religious Imagery,” is included in Art Inspiring Transmutations of Life of the Analecta Husserliana series edited by Patricia Trutty-Coohill in 2010. Another essay by Pierce titled "Ruach Hakodesh..." was published by Springer International in 2016 for the book The Cosmos and the Creative Imagination. She is currently working on an illustrated text titled Image Journaling: Creative Renewal and the Inward Journey.
Over the years, Pierce has presented at conferences such as the Arts and Aesthetics Conference of the International Society of Phenomenology on the campus of Harvard University in Boston, the Association for Integrative Studies conference at Emory University in Atlanta, the Society for Arts and Healthcare conference in Washington, DC, the American Art Therapy Association conference in Washington, DC, the Theological Aesthetics International conference at St. Bonaventure University, NY, the Association of Core Texts and Courses conference in Atlanta, the Southern Graphics Council conferences in Baltimore and Washington, DC, and the Whole Schools Initiative conference for art educators at Millsaps College in Jackson, MS among others.
Phone: 716-378-8155
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Oil on canvas (4.5' x 3.5') Constance Pierce ©
(poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art)
Cover: Constance Pierce (monotype)
Published by Yale Institute of Sacred Music and the Arts,
Yale University, New Haven, CT ~ January 2018
(acrylic on raw linen) 4' x 5' Constance Pierce © ~
Collection of the Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, D.C.
This image is offered in response to yet another school shooting, which took place at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14th, 2018. Seventeen students and staff were fatally shot - and seventeen more were wounded - making this the deadliest school massacre in U. S. history. This horrendous tragedy resulted in "Never Again MSD," a political action committee founded by the surviving students who have expressed, "Thoughts and prayers do not save lives. Gun reform will."
Published as a Giclee print series: pigmented archival inks on Somerset acid-free paper. (Single images 18" x 24" and double mirror-image 24" x 36")
Oil on canvas (4.5' x 3.5') Constance Pierce ©
(poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art)
Cover: Constance Pierce (monotype)
Published by Yale Institute of Sacred Music and the Arts,
Yale University, New Haven, CT ~ January 2018
(acrylic on raw linen) 4' x 5' Constance Pierce © ~
Collection of the Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, D.C.
This image is offered in response to yet another school shooting, which took place at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14th, 2018. Seventeen students and staff were fatally shot - and seventeen more were wounded - making this the deadliest school massacre in U. S. history. This horrendous tragedy resulted in "Never Again MSD," a political action committee founded by the surviving students who have expressed, "Thoughts and prayers do not save lives. Gun reform will."
Published as a Giclee print series: pigmented archival inks on Somerset acid-free paper. (Single images 18" x 24" and double mirror-image 24" x 36")
(University of MS news staff report: July 19, 2018)
Individuals from different disciplines came together in creative fellowship taught by artist, Constance Pierce.
This workshop offers a chance to explore this exciting approach in a weekend afternoon workshop in the Museum’s art studio and galleries. This two-step process is especially useful for museum sketching because the wet medium is utilized in the art studio before and after the dry sketching that is required in gallery and museum environments.
Part I ~ Saturday ~ In the Museum’s Art Studio:
You will learn to prepare your paper in advance by exploring ways to create delicate watercolor monotypes. Then (while the monotypes are drying) we will practice “paraphrase” sketching of master artists’ drawings while experimenting with watercolor pencils and wash.
Part II ~ Sunday ~ Sketching in the Museum galleries:
We will use the watercolor monotypes created the prior afternoon and gesturally sketch over them while viewing works on site in the museum galleries. A surprising synchronicity emerges as the sketches combine with the background colors of the watercolor monotypes. To complete the afternoon, we will return to the art studio to add final accents for emphasis with brush and wash.


Associated artists: Student of Grace Hartigan
(Correspondance: Grace Hartigan Papers, Syracuse University Library, Syracuse, New York, Box 23, 1976 - 1992) ~
NMWA exhibitions:
Curator, Krystyna Wasserman, Director Emerita of the National Museum of Women in the Arts Library and Research Center
1. "Sketchbooks and Illustrated Diaries: Exploring the In/Visible"
2. "Artists' Sketchbooks: The Intimate Journeys"
excerpted from "Essences" published by ISSUU.com
Publication created by designer/writer, Marilee Childs © 2014
Solo exhibition: "Through a Glass Darkly" (monotypes)
Washington Printmakers Gallery, Dupont Circle Art District
Washington, D.C.