AVA wishes to thank everyone for making our 2014 Silent Auction our most successful ever!

The donations and art, food and music were exceptional. Please click here to see a complete list of the donating artists and businesses that made everything happen.

With great appreciation, 

~The Board and Staff of AVA Gallery and Art Center
 
AVA's Exhibition Spaces & Children's Studio Temporarily Closed for Maintenance

During the next two weeks in April, we are suspending our exhibition program to refurbish the hardwood floors and perform other general maintenance to our first floor galleries.

Thank you for your patience as we work to ensure that our exhibition spaces continue to be among the finest in the region.

Work with also be done in the Children's Studio. CAOS for Toddlers will be cancelled on 4/11 & 4/18.  CAOS for Toddlers will resume on 4/25. Regular Saturday CAOS will be held as scheduled.

 

 
AVA's Spring Summer 2014 Program
Including a Listing of Our Upcoming Classes, Exhibitions and Special Events!   

 

 

Click here to have a printed copy of AVA's Spring Summer 2014 Brochure sent to you. 

In This Issue
* Exhibition Spaces Temporarily Closed for Maintenance
* Spring Summer 2014 Program
* Spring Classes Starting Soon
* $15,000 Challenge Grant
* Laro, Nield, White on White
* Overtime: A Drawing Seminar
* Sculpture Proposals for Kira's Garden
* New Hampshire State Council on the Arts' Arts in Education Roster
 
 
AVA Gallery and Art Center

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

 
Spring Classes Starting Soon

 

For Children and Teens:

 

Spring Vacation Art Camps -- April 14-18 

Earth Day Art   Ages 5-8 

A Celebration of Birds   Ages 5-8  

Delights of Drawing in Pencil and Pen  Ages 9-12   

Watercolor Painting  Ages 9-12  

Dreams and Visions  Teens  

AVA Members     Non-members 

 

Spring Afterschool Classes -- Classes Begin April 21-25 

Cartooning  Ages 9-12  

Amazing Mazes and Simple Machines  Ages 5-8  

Spring Into Art  Ages 5-8  

Robotics  Ages 9-12  

Sense Studies  Teens 

 AVA Members     Non-members  

 
 

 

For Adults:

 

4/15 Matter of Life and Verse: Writing Poetry -- Offered with the Dartmouth Aging Resource Center 

4/22 Introduction to Photoshop Elements 

4/22 Great Flowers for New Hampshire and Vermont 

4/22 Watercolor Painting: John Singer Sargent 

4/23 Evening Painting Open Studio 

4/24 Oil Painting from the Ground Up 

4/25 Experimental Watermedia Intensive 

4/26 Acrylic Painting Demonstration 

4/26 Stone Carving 

4/28 Fiber Mondays 

4/30 Evening Open Studio 

 

 

 
$15,000 New Hampshire Charitable Foundation Challenge Grant
Every New or Designated Donation Made to AVA Is Currently Worth Double!

 

We are happy to announce that we've nearly met our required match for the $15,000 Challenge Grant for operating support from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.   

 

Please consider showing your love for AVA and the arts by making a gift to help us cross the finish line. 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! 

 
Laro, Nield, White on White
April 25 - June 6
Opening Reception: Friday, April 25, 5-7pm


Dave Laro -- Material Matters
Rebecca Lawrence Gallery Entry
Gallery Talk: Monday, April 28, 6:00pm

Wayne Nield -- The Walls of the Reliquary
Clifford B. West Gallery

White on White: Churches of Rural New England
Photographs by Steve Rosenthal
Organized by Historic New England, Boston, Massachusetts
E. N. Wennberg Gallery and Elizabeth Rowland Mayor Gallery
Gallery Talk with Steve Rosenthal: Thursday, May 22, 6:00pm

Thank you to our generous sponsors:
 
Overtime: A Drawing Seminar
April 25 - June 6
Opening Reception: Friday, April 25, 5-7pm




Student Work from the AVA Class
"Overtime -- A Drawing Seminar"
Johnson Sisters Library (second floor)

Featuring works by:
Janice Fleetwood Bean
Angela Blake
Janna Borg
Natalia Callaghan
Courtney Dragiff
Julia Neily
Nancy Russell
Gail Seaver
Joan White
Instructor: Michael D. Kraatz 

 
Sculpture Proposals Sought for Kira's Garden at AVA
Deadline Extended: April 28



The deadline for submissions to Kira's Garden has been extended until April 28, 2014.

Artists interested in submitting a proposal to display their work in Kira's Garden may click here to download an application  or request one by calling AVA at 603.448.3117.
 
 
New Hampshire State Council on the Arts' Arts in Education Roster
Deadline: May 2
 

The NH Arts in Education Roster Forms and Guidelines are now posted on the NH State Council on the Arts website.

 

The NH Arts in Education Roster is a great way for artists to create opportunities to share their expertise by working in schools, afterschool programs, community-based and other educational settings.   

 

The postmarked deadline is May 2.