Animal Culture
Education and Advocacy, Promoting the Health and Welfare of All Sentient Beings.

Vol 6 Issue 1 September, 2023

BY PATRICIA DENYS AND MARY HOLMES

O’Hara recently spoke to us in some detail about her State of the Union exhibition.

Culture and Animals Foundation
Kasarla, Gauri, August 8, 2023
Jane O’Hara, a 2017 CAF grantee, recently completed her monumental State of the Union, a series of fifty portraits of depicting the situation for animals throughout the United States. In this video interview with 2023 Navab Fellow and fellow artist Gauri Kasarla, Jane talks about her distinctive artistic vision, the retro-postcard aesthetic she chose for the series, and her journey to becoming an animal rights artist.

Hen House, July 22, 2023
This week, Jane joins us for a conversation about her artwork, which highlights “the failure of the human-animal bond and the tendency of humans to impose their own agenda despite the risks.” We specifically discuss her extraordinary new series State of the Union, currently on exhibit at the New Bedford Art Museum in Massachusetts.

Artscope by Celine LeDoux
July 5, 2023

June’s AHA featured three new exhibitions. Jane O’Hara’s “State of the Union” had its opening night at the New Bedford Art Museum. With a focus on animal advocacy, each state was represented in an acrylic painting highlighting animal rights within that state.

Talking Animals With Duncan Strauss
May 24, 2023

Jane O’Hara, the animal advocate and artist–whose paintings tend to celebrate animals or explore animal issues—recalls a regular upbringing, amidst conventional companion animals.

CANVASREBEL
STORIES & INSIGHTS, June 16, 2022
”We were lucky to catch up with Jane O’Hara recently and have shared our conversation.

Jane, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today What’s been the most meaningful project you’ve worked on?”

ANIMAL CULTURE
The Rescue Issue Vol 3 Issue 6, July, 2021
By Mary Holmes

UNCHAINEDTV
Jane Velez-Mitchell, August 4, 2021
Renowned Vegan, Animal Rights Painter JANE O’HARA Reveals Her New State of the Union Series

PCN Courage of Conscience Award - International Peace Award April, 2015
Jane O’Hara is an honoree of the Courage of Conscience Award from the Peace Abbey , honoring individuals and organizations that have distinguished themselves through humanitarian causes, peace and social justice activism.

I sometimes feel a bit insecure talking with visual artists. I know so little about that world, so I fear I won’t have the knowledge or even basic vocabulary to carry on a worthwhile conversation. Enter painter Jane O’Hara, whose charming approachability is matched only by her fascinating path as an artist who makes works about animals. She was an absolute treasure on this week’s podcast.

Jane O’Hara—the animal advocate and artist whose paintings explore animal issues, depict their plight, and explore our relationships with them…