Happy June to all!

We've had a great response to our current exhibitions, which end on June 6. Come by and see them before they close!

AVA's next exhibitions will open with a reception on June 13, 5-7pm.  Please join us for fine art, good company, and refreshments.

AVA's amazing summer art camps start at the end of this month. These weeklong, half-day and/or full-day camps are filling fast, so register now. Read more below.

And click over to our newly redesigned website! We are thrilled to make information about our diverse programs even more accessible online. The website includes a calendar of events, a complete list of classes, and an archive of our exhibitions. Special thanks to Greg and Betsy Banks for a generous contribution that made this redesign possible.

We look forward to seeing you soon, 

~The Board and Staff of AVA Gallery and Art Center
 
Charlier Hunter, Benjamin Entner, Robert Gold, Carolyn Shattuck
June 13 - July 16
Opening Reception: June 13, 5-7pm


 
Charlie Hunter -- Make the Dirt Stick
Rebecca Lawrence Gallery
Gallery Talk: Thursday, July 10, 6:30pm

Benjamin Entner -- Sumus
Clifford B. West Gallery
Gallery Talk: Wednesday, July 16, 6pm

Robert Gold -- Urban Settings
E. N. Wennberg Gallery

Carolyn Shattuck -- Book, Paper, Collage Triple-Decker
Elizabeth Rowland Mayor Gallery
Gallery Talk: Thursday, June 18, 6pm
In This Issue
* Hunter, Entner, Gold, Shattuck
* Laro, Nield, White on White
* Overtime: A Drawing Seminar
* Spring & Summer Classes
* The Mudroom -- "Boundaries"
* Lebanon Farmers Market
* Sayonara Aya Itagaki
* Center for the Arts 2014 Regional Juried Show
* 360 Xochi Quetzal: Free Winter Residency
 
 
AVA Gallery and Art Center

11 Bank Street
Lebanon, NH 03766
(603) 448-3117
 
Laro, Nield, White on White
April 25 - June 6


Dave Laro -- Material Matters
Rebecca Lawrence Gallery Entry

Wayne Nield -- The Walls of the Reliquary
Clifford B. West Gallery
Gallery Talk: June 5, 6pm

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

Thank you to our generous sponsors:
 
Overtime: A Drawing Seminar
April 25 - June 6


 
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 

 
Spring and Summer Classes

For Adults:

6/2 Beginning Stained Glass 

6/19 Landscape Painting in Watercolor 

6/28 Painting Flowers in Oils 

6/28 Italic Calligraphy 

6/29 Intro to Digital Photography 

 7/8 Evening Beginning Drawing 

7/9 Evening Open Studio 

7/17 Plein Air Landscape Painting 

7/18 Photographing Your Art 

7/22 Landscape Painting in Oils and Acrylics (in studio)  

7/26 Glass Fusing Workshop 

7/26 Matting and Framing for the Artist  

 

Scholarships Are Available    

 

 

For Children and Teens:

 

Enrollment in AVA's Summer Art Camps Is Open 

June 23 - August 22

Nine Weeks of Art Camps!!!

 Half-Day and Full-Day Sessions

Ages 5-8, 9-12, and Teens 

AVA Members     Non-members   

 

Scholarships Are Available  

 

Camps are filling fast! 

 
 
The Mudroom -- "Boundaries"
June 19, 6:30pm, $5



The Mudroom, an exciting initiative modeled after NPR's The Moth Radio Hour, is designed as a social gathering venue for adults in the Upper Valley, offering an opportunity to meet new people, enjoy a fun evening, and connect with friends. Please join the group to hear amazing real-life stories that might otherwise go unshared.

 

The next gathering of this quarterly program will be on Thursday, June 19th at 6:30pm. The evening's theme, "Boundaries," will be brought to life as five pre-selected individuals will share personal accounts of what it means to to them.

 

If you would like to share a story, click here to email your submission.  

   

Open to the public, adults only please. Refreshments will be available.  

 

Click here to purchase your $5 admission. 

 

  
 
AVA at the Lebanon Farmers Market
Thursdays, 4-7pm

Look for AVA's free "plein air art studio" at Colburn Park during Lebanon's Farmers Markets. We provide different art activities each week, so stop by with your whole family and make art with us!
  
 
Sayonara Aya Itagaki -- A Memorial Exhibition
The Aidron Duckworth Museum 
August 2 - September 14 
Opening Reception: August 2, 3-6pm



A memorial exhibition of works by Aya Itagaki will be shown at the Aidron Duckworth Museum this fall. Please save the date!

 

 
Center for the Arts 2014 Regional Juried Show
Deadline: September 1

Artists in the Lake Sunapee region are invited to submit their work to the Center for the Arts 2014 Regional Juried Show.

Juror:  Tom Driscoll, a Plymouth State faculty member, who holds a BFA from Plymouth State and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.

 

 
360 Xochi Quetzal: Free Winter Residency Program in Central Mexico 2015
Deadline: September 28

The 360 XOCHI QUETZAL Artist and Writer's Residency Program is located in Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico on the shores of the largest lake in the country, where the perfect year-round climate and stunning lake and mountain views have long established the region as an international artist mecca.

Click here for complete details.