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We hope this email finds you well.
This mid-month eNewsletter contains updated information about AVA's exhibitions, education program, and special events in the coming weeks.
We look forward to seeing you soon!
~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
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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C. Stuart White, Jr.'s Exhibition Featured in the Valley News
Please take a moment to read the wonderful article -- From the Architects Drafting Table -- written by Nicola Smith and published in the May 16, 2013 Valley News, on C. Stuart White, Jr. and his current exhibition of architectural drawings on display in AVA's Johnson Sisters Library.
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Featured Upcoming Adult Classes
AVA's Summer Program starts soon, with classes and workshops in a variety of creative disciplines. Scholarships are available.
Here are five diverse workshops--one each in technology, painting, gardening, printmaking, and sculpture--scheduled to start in the next few weeks!
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AVA's 2013 Summer Camps for Teens
Check Out These Amazing Opportunities!
New!
Dreams and Visions June 24-28 Spend the week exploring dreams, reality, magic, and the power of creating. Painting, weaving, and multi-media techniques will be used along with natural and synthetic materials as we transform a blank canvas into a personal myth, construct a mask, and weave a web of dreams.
Public Art!
Food and Art Mural Camp July 8-12 and July 15-19
Participants in this two-week public art mural camp will explore local and global food issues through discussions and field trips, including a visit to Cedar Circle Farm, and then develop large-scale mural paintings expressing their ideas about food, farming, hunger, and the environment. Our finished mural paintings will be displayed on the Lebanon Green for one month, in conjunction with the Lebanon Farmers Market.
Contemporary Architecture Intensive!
The 2nd Annual Greg Hemberger Sustainable Architecture Workshop July 22-26 Structured for young people with an interest in sustainable design and construction, this five-day, hands-on workshop will consist of morning sessions at AVA, led by local professionals, and afternoon visits to local architecture offices, construction companies, and LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified buildings. The workshop will incorporate architectural design principles, free-hand drawing, model building, sustainability standards, and other pertinent topics. It will also provide students with new design skills, personal portfolio material, and an idea of whether sustainable architecture and construction is of potential career interest to them.The Tradition Continues!
Oil Painting July 29-August 2 This course will engage teens in the challenges of oil painting from life. Participants will begin by working from still life, then move on to painting landscapes from photographs of their choice. Color, composition and other fundamentals will all be covered. Beginners welcome. New!
Micro Macro August 5-9 and 12-16 Get ready to think BIG, look CLOSE and get INSPIRED by microscopic and macroscopic explorations of plant life! If you love nature and art, this camp is for you. Participants will visit the Murdough Greenhouses at Dartmouth as well as the College's microscope lab to look at plants from unique perspectives. Inspired by these visual investigations, we will use innovative and traditional art-making techniques to create both realistic and abstract works in a variety of 2D and 3D media. This program is funded in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
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ArtStop!, CAOS for Toddlers, and CAOS
Spring 2013 Schedule Wrapping Up
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.
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, 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.
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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 is Colleen Randall, Chair and Professor of Studio Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
The exhibition will be on display from June 21 - July 26.
AVA's 20th Annual Juried Summer Exhibition is generously sponsored by Ledyard National Bank.
Please click here to download the 2013 Juried Exhibition Summer Exhibition Call for Entries press release. |
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AVA and The Norwich Bookstore -- Exhibition-Inspired Books
AVA Members Receive a 20% Discount on these Titles
The Norwich Bookstore has selected six books on the theme of "Drawing," inspired by AVA's current exhibition.
Please click here for the complete list.
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Call for Entries: 4th Annual Wings of Hope Butterfly Release
The Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Vermont and New Hampshire invites submissions of artwork for consideration as part of the 4th Annual Wings of Hope events to benefit VNAVNH programs. The Wings of Hope Butterfly Release is the VNAVNH's signature hospice community awareness event, offering an unique opportunity for individuals to come together publicly to honor the memory of those who have passed away. A butterfly symbolizes the cycle of life - birth, transition, healing and renewal. In commemoration of those honored, this event concludes with a live butterfly release. More than 600 people gathered at Colburn Park in Lebanon, NH and on the campus of Landmark College in Putney, VT in 2012 to collectively release more than 450 butterflies in honor of loved ones. Artists are invited to submit original artwork - painting, drawings, prints, or chalk - celebrating the cycle of life. Two submissions will be chosen and incorporated throughout the event: in advertising, on our website, and in event programs, posters, t-shirts and greeting cards. Selected artists will be publicly recognized at each event. Click here for complete submission information. |
Call for Entries: Art Melt 2013
Forum 35's Art Melt is the largest multi-media, juried art exhibit in the state of Louisiana, taking place Saturday, July 20 - August 24 at the Louisiana State Museum in downtown Baton Rouge.
Click here for complete submissions information.
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