About Elaine Auger
Elaine Auger was hired by the Barrington School Department as an art teacher in 1970 where she worked until 2000. During this period she danced with local groups and made sculptures and pottery at Providence College ceramics studio.
Auger was the recipient of a summer Skidmore College fellowship to study art in 1982. She was invited to attend the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Honors Program in 1983. She returned in 1984 and later graduated from RISD with an MAE. From 1984 to 2009 Auger exhibited her ceramics sculpture locally and at the Lyman Allyn Museum sculpture invitational. She transitioned to printmaking in 2010 and since 2014 has continued to work in this media at the Providence Art Club.
The connection between art and dance has always been an important one for me and continues to inform my work. Motion and space, these have been the motivating forces defining my artwork. I take an instinctual approach; the final composition is unplanned but found during the creation of the piece. It is a journey of transition and passage, the exploration of a thought, a feeling or a kind of energy.