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We hope that our May eNewsletter finds you with spirits buoyed by the emerging blossoms and the warmth of the sun.
Please read on to learn about AVA's upcoming exhibitions, the closing reception for the current shows, our exciting calendar of classes, workshops, and lectures, and opportunities to exhibit your work.
Happy spring!
~The Board and Staff of AVA Gallery and Art Center
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Drawing Invitational
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Student Work from the Class:
40 Hours -- 40 Years!
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C. Stuart White, Jr: Drawings
May 10 - June 7
Opening Reception: Friday, May 10, 5-7pm!
Panel Discussion: Thursday, May 30, 5:30pm
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The Drawing Invitational Features:
Gerald Auten * Toby Bartles
Penelope Bennett * Kate Emlen
Brenda Garand * John Joline
Winkie Kelsey * Meg McLean
Mary Mead * Carl Mehrbach
Charles Shurcliff * Stephanie Suter
Susan Walp * James Watkinson
Sally Wellborn
*** 40 Hours -- 40 Years Features:
Janice Bean * Angela Blake Zachary Brock * Natalia Callaghan Sharon Crothers * Debra Lloyd Charlotte Luce * Julia Neily Chris Orcutt Henderson * Leigh Remy Laura Webster * Joan M. White Alexis Williams Instructor: Michael D. Kraatz
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AVA Gallery and Art Center
11 Bank Street
Lebanon, NH 03766
(603) 448-3117
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AVA Beginnings: Work by Founding and Longtime AVA Artists
Closing Reception: Friday, May 3, 5-7pm
To commemorate the final day of the exhibition, AVA will provide refreshments and facilitate a lively discussion. All artists (and art appreciators) are welcome to attend but attendees should come prepared to share early AVA stories. Also, attendees will have the chance to view Stephanie Reininger's exhibition, Musings, on display in AVA's Johnson Sisters Library on the second floor.
Beginning in 1973, AVA (then the Community Gallery) held its first exhibition in the Nye's barn in Norwich, VT and shortly afterwards moved to Hanover, NH. In 1990, AVA moved to Lebanon, NH in its current location in the former H.W. Carter & Sons Overall factory. AVA Beginnings features a selection of artists who were originally involved with AVA and played an important role in its early years.
Participating artists include: Petey Becker, Ria Blaas, Marion Eastman Blodgett, Laura Boyajian, Paedra Bramhall, Judith Brown (1931-1992), Robert Christy, Aidron Duckworth (1920-2001), Georgina Forbes, Libby Gardner, Larry Howard (1931-2010), Aya Itagaki, Winkie Kelsey, Ellen Langtree, Judith Lerner, Carol Lummus, Tim Matson, Elizabeth (Lili) Mayor, Cornelia Rahmelow (1943-2012), Sally Rutter, Ann Semprebon, Martia R. Smith, John Stephens, and Sande French-Stockwell.
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Stephanie Reininger: Musings
Showing through May 3
On display in the Johnson Sisters Library
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AVA's Spring Education Program for Adults
Spaces Remain Open in these Workshops -- Get Involved!
Here's a small sampling of AVA classes starting in the first two weeks of May:
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CAOS, CAOS for Toddlers, CAOS for Adults, ArtStop!
CAOS, AVA's Saturday program where children with caregivers can make their own self-directed art projects for $5, will continue every Saturday between 11am-4pm through May 25. Saturday CAOS will resume again in the fall.
CAOS for Toddlers, AVA's free program where children aged 1-4 with caregivers will continue every Friday between 9:30-11am through May 24. CAOS for Toddlers will resume again in the fall.
CAOS for Adults will meet on Thursday, May 2 at 6pm. This program for adults (21+) meets on the first Thursday of the month and features a different activity each time. Participants may bring their own beer or wine.
ArtStop!, AVA's free Tuesday afternoon program where students in grades 5-8 can work on their own projects, will continue Tuesday afternoons through May 21. ArtStop! will resume again in the fall.
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"Art Imitates Life Imitates Art:
Edvard Munch, Henrik Ibsen and Hedda Gabler"
A Free Lecture at AVA by Bente Torjusen
Wednesday, May 1, 5:30pm
AVA Gallery and Art Center will present an illustrated talk--"Art Imitates Life Imitates Art: Edvard Munch, Henrik Ibsen and Hedda Gabler"--on Wednesday, May 1 at 5:30pm. The talk, to be given by AVA's Executive Director Bente Torjusen, is given in partnership with the Northern New England Repertory Theatre Company in conjunction with the company's staging of Henrik Ibsen's powerful drama Hedda Gabler* at Colby-Sawyer College (May 30-June 8).
The work of the two Norwegian masters--playwright, theater director and poet Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) and painter and printmaker Edvard Munch (1863-1944)--at times intersected in dynamic and dramatic ways. A number of Ibsen's dramas inspired Munch's art, and one of Munch's paintings likely inspired Ibsen's last play, When We Dead Awaken.
Torjusen's talk will expand upon how the notorious Hedda Gabler, as well as protagonists from other Ibsen dramas, resonated with Munch's life and art.
A brief excerpt from Hedda Gabler will be performed by Grant Neale and LeeAnn Hutchison, actors currently starring in Shaker Bridge Theatre's North Shore Fish. In addition, a larger-than-life bronze bust of Henrik Ibsen by the Norwegian-American sculptor Trygve Hammer (1878-1947)--generously lent to AVA for the occasion by the sculptor's daughter-in-law, Peggy Hammer--will be on display.
*Hedda Gabler (Rudall, transl.) is produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. Tickets ($10-$28) for Hedda Gabler at the Saywer Center Theater are available by calling 603-526-4112.
AVA members will receive a $5 discount on tickets to Hedda Gabler.
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"Nelson Rockefeller: The Art Collector"
A Free Lecture at AVA by Mary Louise Pierson
Thursday, May 2, 5:30pm
In this illustrated lecture, Pierson will offer a personal perspective on her grandfather, Nelson Rockefeller, and his impact as an art collector. Nelson Rockefeller was deeply influenced by his mother, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller-the founder of the Museum of Modern Art. He became one of the most prominent collectors of modern art in the 20th century and forged friendships with many well-known artists, including Picasso, Calder, Matisse and Nevelson. He also founded the Museum of Primitive Art; the collection is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Painter and photographer Mary Louise Pierson is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design. Her photographs have been published in The Rockefeller Family Home: Kykuit (1997), co-authored with her mother, Ann Roberts, as well as in Mr. Rockefeller's Roads, which features images of Acadia National Park. Pierson is currently working on a series of paintings for an exhibit in New York City; her work has been shown at AVA in both solo- and group shows.
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"Rodin, Whistler, and the Muse: Gwen John's Ardent Voice"
Talk and Reading by Ann McGarrell
Thursday, May 16, 5:30pm in AVA's Galleries
Ann McGarrell--noted Newbury, Vermont poet and award-winning translator--will give a talk on the Welsh painter Gwen John (1876-1939) and read from her recently published book, Gwen & Other Poems.
John, whose exquisite paintings reflect influences from James McNeill Whistler, with whom she studied in Paris, has been called one of the most significant female artists of the early 20th century.
Gwen & Other Poems takes as its source a decade-long love affair between John and the sculptor Auguste Rodin, more than 30 years John's senior. It is described as "a stunning cycle of poems" and "a book of feminine depth and desire, of love, art, and loss, in a rare poetic voice."
McGarrell won the 1997 PEN/Renato Poggioli Translation Award for best translation from the Italian; she has been awarded numerous writing residencies, including at the Ligurian Study Center in Bogliasco, Italy; Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi; and the Albers Foundation, Connecticut. In 2011, broadsides of her translations of poems from Giuseppe Ungaretti's Il dolore (Sorrow) were shown at AVA, alongside paintings by Margaret Kannenstine.
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Call for Entries: AVA's 20th Annual Juried Summer Exhibition
Deadline: June 8, 10, and 11
Artists interested in submitting work for consideration for our upcoming 20th Annual Juried Summer Exhibition can click here for complete details.
This year's Juror will be Colleen Randall, Chair and Professor of Studio Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
AVA's 20th Annual Juried Summer Exhibition is generously sponsored by Ledyard National Bank.
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Call for Entries: The Fells Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit
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Call for Entries: Boston Center for the Arts
The Boston Center for the Arts is currently accepting submissions for their 23rd Drawing Show, Drawing Connections, which will be curated and juried by James Hull.
Proposals are welcome from all artists and designers who explore drawing as a medium in their work.
Click here for complete details.
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