Please join us tonight from 5-7pm for three exciting exhibition openings. Art will be on display on all three floors of our Carter-Kelsey building as well as outdoors in Kira's Garden!

Read on to learn more about our exceptional Summer Art Camps, classes and workshops for adults, the upcoming Mudroom and more.

 

Yours in the arts, 

~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
* Kira's Garden
* Steve Chase -- New Work
* Overtime: A Drawing Seminar
* Spring & Summer Classes
* Summer Art Camp Partnerships
* The Mudroom -- "Boundaries"
* Lebanon Farmers Market
* Tiltfactor
* Healing With Art
 
 
AVA Gallery and Art Center

11 Bank Street
Lebanon, NH 03766
(603) 448-3117
 
Kira's Garden
June 2014 - May 2015
Opening Reception: June 13, 5-7pm



The 2014-2015 exhibition in Kira's Garden features works by:

 

Peggy Brightman of Woodstock VT

Elizabeth D'Amico of Springfield, NH

Liz Sibley Fletcher of Mason, NH

Dimitri Gerakaris of Canaan, NH

Sue Katz of Meriden, NH

Michael Kraatz and Susan Russell of Canaan, NH

John Kemp Lee of White River Junction, VT

Phil Lonergan of Campton, NH

Joe Montroy of Auburn, NH

Teresa Taylor of Barnstead, NH

 


 
Steve Chase -- New Work
June 13 - July 16
Opening Reception: June 13, 5-7pm



 
Overtime: A Drawing Seminar
Last Day of Exhibit: June 13


 
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:

6/28 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   

8/2 Beginning Portraiture in Oils 

8/2 Reduction Relief Printmaking  

8/8 Fine Art Digital Prints 

8/9 Travel Photography 

8/9 Jewelry Casting Techniques 

8/16 Experimental Pastel Painting 

 

Scholarships Are Available    

 

 

For Children and Teens:

 

Summer Art Camps Are Filling Fast: Enroll Now!  

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! 

 

 

 
Amazing Summer Art Camp Partnerships Make Exceptional Opportunities for Children and Teens
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AVA's 2014 Summer Art Camps feature some incredible partnerships, uniting the strengths of many local organizations to offer playful, creative, and educational art experiences. Please click the class title to learn more about these camps:

Micro Macro: A two-week art and science camp that partners AVA with the Dartmouth College Biology Department, the Dartmouth Microscopy Labs, the Murdough Greenhouses, and which is funded in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Creative Exploration at the Enfield Shaker Museum: A one-week camp that partners AVA with the Enfield Shaker Museum. Participants will learn about the architecture, dance, and music of the Shakers and make their own original artworks inspired by what they learn. At the conclusion of the camp, student works will be exhibited in the Great House at the Museum!

The Third Annual Hemberger Sustainable Architecture Program: A one-week camp where teens will tour regional "Green" buildings, meet with architects, and develop their portfolios for potential use in college applications.

Natural Creativity: A one-week camp that partners AVA with the Upper Valley Land Trust and where participants will learn from both environmental and art educators as they explore the conserved Jackson property Lebanon and make artworks inspired by the natural world. 
 
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. 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.

    

Open to the public, adults only please.    

 

Thai food and homemade desserts will be available for purchase at 6:30pm and during the intermission. Otter Creek beer (donations greatly appreciated) will be on ice and the St. Johnsbury, VT band Chickweed will be providing the music. Storytelling begins at 7:00pm. 

 

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. Weather permitting, we will provide different art activities each week, so stop by with your whole family and make art with us!
  
 
Tiltfactor's Looking for a Few Good Research Participants

Tiltfactor, an award-winning design studio and research laboratory at Dartmouth College that invents new ways of thinking about important social issues through engaging games and play, is currently inviting participants (ages 18+) to test two new single-player browser games as part of a paid research study.

During the study session, you will be asked to play two single-player games on a PC laptop and fill out a set of questionnaires about the games and other topics. The session will be one hour in length, and participants will be paid $10 cash. No technical skills or specific game play experience is required to participate.

Click here to sign up.
 
 
Call for Entries: Healing With Art
Deadline: July 18

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.

 

Click here for complete information.