AVA is excited to announce that our Fall 2013 brochure is at the printer, so please look for it in the Saturday, August 17 Valley News and in your mailbox shortly thereafter! 

We also have two exhibitions opening in the next two weeks, a public art sculpture project for this fall, new AVA membership benefits, and upcoming special programs. Read on for more information; there are a few opportunities for artists listed below, too.

All best wishes,
~The Board and Staff of AVA Gallery and Art Center
 
A Celebration of Upper Valley Artists at Pompanoosuc Mills, East Thetford, VT
August 16 - September 2
Opening Reception: Friday, August 16, 4-7pm

AVA Gallery and Art Center, in partnership with Pompanoosuc Mills, is pleased to present A Celebration of Upper Valley Artists. The exhibition, on display in Pompanoosuc Mills' showrooms in East Thetford, VT, runs from August 16 through September 22, 2013. There will be a reception, free and open to the public, at Pompanoosuc Mills on Friday, August 16, from 4 to 7pm.

 

This is the second time that Pompanoosuc Mills will host an exhibition of work by local AVA artists. The participating artists are: Barbara Bartlett (mixed-media), Steve Chase (paintings), David Fisk (paintings), Georgina Forbes (paintings), Brenda Garand (sculpture), Jean Gerber (paintings), Pat Glowa (ceramics), Rachel Gross (prints), Naomi Hartov (collage), Donald Haynes (paintings), Daniel A. Neary, Jr (photographs), Jessica Neary (paintings), Anne Rose (paintings), Jonathan Rose (paintings), Helen Shulman (paintings), Tom Urgo (photographs), and Ann Sargent Walker (paintings). 

 

 

 

 
In This Issue
* A Celebration of Upper Valley Artists at Pompanoosuc Mills
* Chisel, Brush, Pen: An Exhibition by Winkie Kelsey
* Juried Show Award Winners 1993-2013
* AVA Public Art Sculpture Class Offered This Fall!
* Fall Classes and Workshops
* New AVA Membership Benefits
* Lebanon Farmers' Market
* Norwich Bookstore AVA Selections
* Call for Entries: New American Painting
* Call for Entries: deviantART Grant
 
 
AVA Gallery and Art Center

11 Bank Street
Lebanon, NH 03766
(603) 448-3117

Chisel, Brush, Pen: An Exhibition by Winkie Kelsey to Benefit AVA
August 23 - September 29

 

 
Juried Show Award Winners 1993-2013
New Work
August 9-30

This exhibition is up for a very short time and the work is delightful. Come see it while you can!

 

 

 
AVA Public Art Sculpture Class Offered This Fall!

AVA is delighted to be partners with the PowerHouse Mall in West Lebanon, NH to offer a new Public Art Project this fall.

 

In our upcoming Sculpture Modeling, Plaster Casting and Public Art! class, led by Ernest Montenegro this September, participants will work with clay to make their own small three-dimensional artwork. Once the designs are finalized, everyone will create molds and produce a series of cast-plaster multiples of their original works! The series of small multiples will then be hidden throughout the PowerHouse Mall, creating a Halloween wonderland for children and families to find as part of the October celebrations. Learn a new sculpture process, enhance your resume, and celebrate the arts with your neighbors!

  

Click here to see a project with a similar spirit that went around the world! 

 

This AVA public art project is sponsored in part by the PowerHouse Mall.Thank you!

 


 

Scholarships are available.    

 

 
Register Online for AVA's Fall Classes and Workshops
A Third of Our Classes Are Brand New This Season!

Over the next three months, 50 teaching artists, with diverse skills and backgrounds, will come together to offer 55 classes and workshops for individuals of all ages and abilities in:

And don't forget about our classes for children and teens

 

Please click through for complete details.

 

Scholarships are available.    

 

 
Your AVA Membership Now Comes With More Benefits!

 

Because your AVA membership is so important to us and to the continued vitality of what AVA offers, we have expanded our annual membership benefits.  

 

Please click here to view our expanded membership benefits.  

 

If you are not yet an AVA member, please consider joining today.

 

 
AVA's Outdoor Art Table at the Lebanon Farmers Market
Thursdays, 4:30-7:00pm, Weather Permitting

 

The Lebanon Farmers Market continues this summer on Thursday afternoons in Colburn Park.  

 

AVA invites community members of all ages to make art with us at our free, open-air art table. Please join us.  

 

And while you're there, stroll over to 11 Bank Street and see our current exhibitions. AVA's galleries are open until 7pm on Thursdays.

 

 
The Norwich Bookstore
 
The Norwich Bookstore selects books with a theme pertaining to AVA's current exhibitions, then offers them to AVA members for 20% off.  Click through to learn about the current list.

 

 
Call to Artists: New American Painting - Northeast Competition
Deadline: August 31    

 

New American Painting's Northeast Competition is now open and is accepting works from painters in

CT, DE, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT.

Juror: Al Miner, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Click here for complete information.

 

 
Call to Artists: deviantART Creative Grant Program

 

The deviantART Creative Grants Program is a pilot project designed to make modest grants to artists upon application for projects related to making and displaying art.

 Click here for complete information.