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As you begin reading AVA's January 2013 eNewsletter, you will no doubt notice that our wonderful logo has been adapted for the occasion of AVA's 40th anniversary year. (AVA, in case you're wondering, stands for Alliance for the Visual Arts.) Special thanks are due to Harp and Company Graphic Design for reworking their original AVA logo; the one that graces this eNewsletter will be used proudly throughout 2013.
Founded in 1973, AVA will mark its 40th year in numerous ways. While there will be ample opportunity to reflect on where we've come from, we will stay equally focused on where we are going. And, with "Art Works at AVA" as our 40th Anniversary tagline, we will certainly not be overlooking the present. Our two January shows -- the Smithsonian traveling exhibition The Way We Worked, on view through January 27, and the AVA exhibit The Way We Work, which opens on January 4 -- explore that tagline in fascinating ways. So does the array of classes and workshops that are scheduled for this winter term.
We thank you warmly for all you give and do for AVA, and we hope to see you here often in 2013.
Happy New Year!
~The Board and Staff of AVA Gallery and Art Center
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The Way We Work
January 4 - February 1, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, January 4, 5-7pm
Gallery Talk: Thursday, January 17, 5:30pm
The Way We Work, on display in AVA's Clifford B. West Gallery, E.N. Wennberg Gallery and Gallery 3, will show how the artists who have studios in our Carter-Kelsey building work. Featuring works-in-progress next to finished pieces and the tools and materials used in each project, The Way We Work is a poignant juxtaposition to the Smithsonian's The Way We Worked, on display through January 27, 2013.
The Way We Work will feature nineteen artists, including Derek Bell, painting; Carrie Fradkin, mosaic; CATV, video; JennyLynn Hall, sculpture; Stacy Hopkins, jewelry and metalwork; John Joline, drawing; Winkie Kelsey, stone carving; Richard Langdell, papermaking; Sloane Mayor, architectural design; Dolly Miller, painting; Victoria Moors, printmaking; Edward Rosario, painting; Joseph Saginor, painting; Richard Saunders, stone carving; Nance Silliman, painting; Everett Webber, stone carving; Kay Wegner, fiber art; Paulette Werger, encaustic and metalwork; and Anne Wilson, architectural design.
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AVA Gallery and Art Center
www.avagallery.org 
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The Way We Worked: A New Smithsonian Exhibition
On Display Through January 27, 2013
Whether you make a living in a factory, field, office, hospital, restaurant, or anywhere in between, you are a part of American history.
Rediscover the strength and spirit of American workers through rare archival images, compelling videos, and fascinating interviews.
The Way We Worked, an exhibition created by the National Archives, is part of Museum on Main Street, a collaboration among the Smithsonian Institution, New Hampshire Humanities Council, and Historic New England. Local support is provided by Mascoma Savings Bank and the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. Special thanks are due to Lebanon Historical Society, CATV, and Jack Rowell.
Click here to download the The Way We Worked Press Release |
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Art Works at AVA
Free Special Events this January: Not To Be Missed!
Sunday, January 6, 4pm
The New England Mill Town
Lecture by Jere Daniell, Dartmouth College History Professor Emeritus
Professor Jere Daniell, who grew up in the paper mill town of Millinocket, Maine, has a particular interest in the early industrialization of New England. His talk will range from the first water-powered mills to the flourishing of Lebanon's textile industry.
Thursday, January 10, 6pm
Talk and Reading from Never Back Down by Ernest Hebert
"The Web Boy: Jack Landry's Purgatorial Summer Working in Father's Shop"
Ernest Hebert, whose father worked in a textile mill in Keene, NH for nearly half a century, will talk about his family's work ethic. He will also read a passage from his new novel, Never Back Down, which takes place in a textile mill in 1957. The novel is based on Hebert's experience, at age sixteen, of working a summer as a "web boy" at International Narrow Fabric Company, the workplace of his father.
Hebert is the author of eleven published books, including nine novels, and Professor of English at Dartmouth College. He is also a former AVA board member.
Sunday, January 13, 4pm
Connecting the Threads: Overalls to Art--H.W. Carter & Sons Factory
A Documentary Film
This screening marks the premiere of a 35-minute documentary film featuring interviews with former H.W. Carter & Sons factory workers. Among those interviewed is 94-year-old Thelma Follensbee, who worked in the factory from age 16 until it closed in 1985. There are also interviews with relatives of factory owners and managers. Additionally, the film ties the building's important manufacturing past to its present role as the home of AVA Gallery and Art Center. Several of the subjects who appear in the film will offer remarks following the screening.
A Historic New England/CATV/AVA Co-production.
Sunday, January 20, 4pm
Voices from the Back Stairs: Domestic Servants in 19th- and 20th-Century New England
Lecture by Jennifer Pustz, PhD, Museum Historian at Historic New England
Focusing on three Historic New England properties, this illustrated lecture will explore the diversity of domestic service in New England, illuminating the lives of servants and their relationships with their employers.
Sunday, January 27, 4pm
Mill Buildings in Lebanon
Lecture by Robert Welsch, Professor of Anthropology at Franklin Pierce College
Professor Robert Welsch, current Chair of Lebanon's Heritage Commission and former Curator of Lebanon Historical Society, will discuss the industrial entrepreneurs of Lebanon since the Civil War. His talk will emphasize how the H.W. Carter & Sons factory was not a unique example of Lebanon's role in industry, but merely one of the more successful ones.
Click here to download the Press Release for These Free Lectures and Events
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AVA Invites You To A "Denim Party"
January 26, 4-7pm
As a nod to our building's manufacturing past, and to kick off our 40th anniversary-year celebrations, don your jeans or overalls and join us for a free and fun afternoon party filled with music, refreshments, art activities for kids, and more--a great way to keep the winter blues at bay!
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Call to Artists: Design The 2013 Prouty Bike Jersey!
Deadline: February 1, 2013
The Prouty, a fundraising event that benefits the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center, is excited to announce the first-ever Prouty Bike Jersey Design Competition, a project intended to involve the great talent pool of artists of our region to come up with the snazziest bike shirt ever!
Click here for all the information you need to submit your design.
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Art Lab Exhibition at the Courtyard by Marriott in Lebanon, NH
Reception: Thursday, January 10, 5:30-7pm
Work by Art Lab participants -- a group of adults with special needs who meet weekly for art classes at AVA -- will be on display at the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel, located at Centerra in Lebanon (10 Morgan Drive) from January 10 to the end of May. The exhibit will be shown in the hotel's main lobby and in one of their meeting rooms. The opening reception will take place on Thursday, January 10 from 5:30-7pm. Refreshments will be served.
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Upper Valley Almanac -- Programmed in conjunction with Brooklyn Rider*
Monday, January 14, 6pm at the Main Street Museum in White River Junction, VT. Free.
One hundred years after the Blue Rider Almanac (1912) synthesized the European avant-garde and international culture, the world premiere of Brooklyn Rider Almanac, commissioned by the Hopkins Center, explores creative influence in the current moment. The Upper Valley Almanac brings together Brooklyn Rider with local cultural omnivores and aggregators for a conversation about creative placemaking in the Upper Valley, investigating who inspires us and who we inspire. With: Adam Blue ( AVA Gallery & Art Center), David Fairbanks Ford (Main Street Museum), Stephanie Pacheco (Hopkins Center), Kim Souza (Revolution ), James Sturm (Center for Cartoon Studies), performances and more.
*Presented in conjunction with the performance of Brooklyn Rider at the Hopkins Center on January 18.
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Artist Residency in Southern France
La Muse (applications ongoing)
Established in 2001, La Muse offers creative individuals a peaceful, inspiring, mountain setting in which to pursue the work they love. Their goal is to provide writers, artists, artisans, musicians and scholars with an inspiring, affordable escape from their busy schedules. All ages and nationalities are invited to apply.
La Muse is a medieval manor house perched in the tiny village of Labastide Esparbairenque in the mountains 25 km north of the walled medieval town of Carcassonne, in Southern France.
Some of the many universities already affiliated with La Muse are: St. Patrick's University, Ireland, University of Iowa, University College Dublin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Central Washington University.
Click here to visit the La Muse website.
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