Summer is here, and AVA's Carter-Kelsey building is brimming with enthusiastic children and teens, each pursuing their creativity in wonderful ways. In the first week alone, we've seen fairies, circus performers, robots, digital photographers, and spirit animals. Hurray for art camps!

Before we get to the many details of our exhibitions and education programs, AVA would like to thank Lynn Graton for her sixteen years of service to the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, and for all the lives that have been influenced through her efforts. Lynn is retiring from the NHSCA, where for the past five years she was Acting Director.

 

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
In This Issue
* Hunter, Entner, Gold, Shattuck
* Kira's Garden
* Steve Chase -- New Work
* Spring & Summer Classes
* 2013 Juried Show Winners
* Horses and Hounds
* Woodstock Arts Festival
* Fall Arts Partnership Conference
* Summer Art Camp Partnerships
 
 
AVA Gallery and Art Center

11 Bank Street
Lebanon, NH 03766
(603) 448-3117
 
Kira's Garden
June 2014 - May 2015



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 

Winkie Kelsey of Fairlee, VT 

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



 
Summer Classes

For Adults:

 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! 

 

 

 
2013 Juried Show Winners:
Toby Bartles, Leah Berry, Michael Heffernan, Joseph Saginor 
July 25 - August 27
Opening Reception: July 25, 5-7pm



The 2013 Juried Show Winners Exhibition is generously sponsored by Ledyard National Bank.

 

 
Christine Orcutt Henderson and Derek Bell:
Horses and Hounds  
July 25 - August 27
Opening Reception: July 25, 5-7pm
 
Horses and Hounds is generously sponsored by:

Mimi Baird
Covered Bridge Real Estate, LLC
 
Call for Entries: Woodstock Arts Festival
Deadline: July 12

Woodstock Vermont's fifth annual Art Festival will be September 6 & 7 on the village green.  Sponsored by the Woodstock Vermont Area Chamber of Commerce, the festival will run from 10am-5pm, with music and food to compliment up to 40 artists.

   

Click here to download the application. 

  

 
Call for Proposals: 2014 New Hampshire State Council on the Arts' Fall Arts Partnership Conference 
Deadline: July 18 
 
Arts Education Teachers, Colleagues, Teaching Artists, Arts Leaders and others interested in arts education work:

 

The New Hampshire State Council on the Arts is seeking proposals for presenters for their wonderful, annual, statewide NH2014 Fall Arts Education Partnership Conference, taking place Oct. 31 - Nov. 2 in the Monadnock Region, at the Barbara Harris Conference Center in Greenfield NH.

 

The theme for the conference will be The Arts as Inspiration: for Learning * Teaching * Making * Living.  

 

Click here for information about the Arts in Education Conference.

 
Call for Artists: Residency Program at The Luminary
Deadline: July 31

The Luminary Residency Program, in St. Louis, MO, supports exceptional emerging artists, curators and critics engaging the world of contemporary art by providing dedicated time and a supportive working environment. The program is open to all artistic, curatorial and critical practices but uniquely supports the research, development and presentation of work that utilizes innovative forms and unconventional structures such as alternative spaces and economies, publications and writing, archives, collaborations, artist-led projects and socially engaged practices.

Click here for complete details.