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Happy Valentines Day!
Against the backdrop of the Winter Olympics, AVA has assembled an award-winning collection of arts opportunities, including the 2014 Best of the Upper Valley High School Exhibition. Please join us at the Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony on Friday, February 28, from 5-7pm. This high-energy event is great fun for everyone, and it's a treat to see some of the strongest work being produced by the teens of our region!
Ever inspired by those smarty-pants, the Norwegian curling team,
~The Board and Staff of AVA Gallery and Art Center
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Best of the Upper Valley High School Exhibition
February 21-March 14
Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony, February 28, 5-7pm
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AVA Gallery and Art Center
11 Bank Street
Lebanon, NH 03766
(603) 448-3117
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Rich Fedorchak, Galen Cheney, Gil Scullion, Enrico Riley
Exhibition Closes February 14
Valentine's Day is the last chance to see the current AVA exhibitions that, according to the Valley News (February 2014), include "one of the best sight gags ever to grace the Upper Valley."
Click here for information about the show.
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$15,000 New Hampshire Charitable Foundation Challenge Grant
Every New Donation Made to AVA Is Currently Worth Double!
We are delighted to announce that AVA Gallery and Art Center will receive a $15,000 Challenge Grant for operating support from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation upon the completion of the grant's matching requirement.
In the spirit of Valentine's Day, please consider showing your love for AVA and the arts by making a gift towards the challenge. Your donation will automatically be doubled!
Click here to read the press release and learn how you can help us meet the challenge!
Donate now!
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2014 Summer Camps for Children and Teens Now Online
Nine Weeks of Summer Camps Scheduled!
We are delighted to announce that AVA's 2014 Summer Camp schedule is online, and registration is now open to AVA members.
We are proud to offer an exceptional line-up of camps, beginning the last week of June and running through the end of August. Camps are scheduled for children ages 5-8, 9-12, and teens.
AVA membership is open to all, and becoming a member saves families money on tuition. Non-member enrollment in AVA's 2014 summer camps will begin in March 2014. |
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Winter 2014 Classes and Workshops
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AVA's popular Winter Vacation Camps will be held February 17-21, 2014.
Animals in Art and My Own Little World for ages 5-8
Digital Photography for Kids and A Garden in Winter for ages 9-12
AVA Members click here for complete information. Non-members, please click here.
AVA's February and March Afterschool Classes Begin the Week of February 23
2/24 Art Explorations for Kids (Ages 5-8)
2/24 Realistic Drawing for Kids (Ages 9-12)
2/25 Art for Homeschoolers (All ages)
2/26 Collage, Mosaic and Sculpture (Ages 5-8)
2/26 Lego Robotics -- More Engineering Challenges (Ages 9-12)
2/28 Oil Painting (Teens)
AVA Members Click Here / Non-members Click Here
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The Mudroom -- A Quarterly Social Gathering
The Mudroom, an initiative modeled after NPR's The Moth Radio Hour, is designed as a social gathering for adults in the Upper Valley, offering an opportunity to meet new people, connect with friends, and to hear amazing real-life stories that might otherwise go unshared.
The next Mudroom will be on March 13. The evening's theme will be brought to life as five pre-selected individuals share personal accounts of a "Spring Fling."
Refreshments are available for purchase beginning at 6:30pm, and the storytelling begins at 7pm. Please join us for a memorable evening!
If you would like to share a story, please click here to email us.
Open to the public, adults only please. Refreshments will be available. $5 Admission.
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** NEW DATE **
Full Moon Madness Margaritas Event
5% of the Proceeds from Margaritas' February 20 Event Will Benefit AVA!
Four times a year, Margaritas throws a really big party and crazy things can happen. So crazy that they call it Full Moon Margarita Madness.
Throughout the evening, the Lebanon Margarita's lounges are piled high with giveaways, contests, flavorful specials and lots of fun and excitement. Even better, 5% of the February 20 event's lounge sales will be donated to AVA. Area businesses, organizations and vendor partners get in on the fun by supplying fantastic prizes and throughout the night. You could win anything and everything: t-shirts, gift certificates, ski passes, skydiving and rafting trips, snowboards and more! You have to see it to believe it.
So please consider going to the Thursday, February 20, Full Moon Margarita Madness Event, and see what all the excitement is about while also benefiting AVA!
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AVA wishes to thank everyone in our community who patronized Margaritas restaurant after the free Edvard Munch: Paintings film showing on Sunday, January 26. AVA has received a nice donation from Margaritas from that night and we are delighted to continue working with them for the February 20 party.
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AVA's 2014 Silent Auction Party
Save the Date: March 29, 5:30-8:00pm
AVA's Silent Auction Party is one of our most important fundraisers of the year, as well as one of the community's most exciting gatherings!
Admissions may be purchased in advance. Please save the date for this lively celebration of the arts!
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LEF New England Fellowships
Deadline: March 3
The Flaherty is now accepting applications for the LEF New England Fellowships, which covers the entire registration fee for four New England-area documentary filmmakers to attend the 2014 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, June 14-20 at Colgate University (Hamilton, NY). Sorry, students are not eligible to apply.
Programmed by Caspar Stracke & Gariela Monroy, the 2014 Seminar, titled "Turning the Inside Out", will probe the essence and frontiers of the form that inspired its beginnings: the documentary.
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Call for Artists: Healing With Art
Deadline: March 14
The Friends of Norris Cotton Cancer Center has issued a call for art for an exhibit to be hung in the Norris Cotton Cancer Centers in Lebanon, Manchester, and Nashua. The exhibit is based on the belief that art contributes to and reinforces the healing process for patients who have been diagnosed with and are receiving treatment for cancer. Art provides a therapeutic refuge for those in need of finding perspective on what is happening in their lives, and this exhibit is intended to offer enlightenment and encouragement to patients, families, and staff of the Cancer Centers. This exhibit will be hung for four months at the Centers. |
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Call for Artists: Texas Tech University School of Art, Serial Experiments in Artist-Curated Micro-Exhibitions
Exploring what is possible for artists when they are released from practical, economical and physical constraints, Texas Tech University School of Art and Earthbound Moon ask artists: What can you accomplish without the limitations of natural laws, moral codes or current technologies?
Show us your gallery inside a volcano, your sculpture on top of the Great Pyramids; float your work on top of the largest storm in the solar system or on Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Unbound by the physical realities of the here and now, the sky is not your limit!
Proposals for fantastically imaginative and absurdly inventive site oriented artworks are sought by March 24, 2014. There is no cost to enter.
Click here to email for complete submissions requirements.
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