This September, AVA launches its Fall 2014 program, with new exhibitions, classes, workshops, free and low-cost community programs and more. You'll find details to follow, so please read on.

 

We look forward to seeing you soon, 

~The Board and Staff of AVA Gallery and Art Center
 
AVA's Fall 2014 / Winter 2015 Program Brochure  


We are excited to announce that AVA's Fall 2014 / Winter 2015 program brochure is now available. The publication features information about our upcoming exhibitions, classes, and special programs, including free lectures, a film series, public art and much more!

Click here to request a copy.

 
In This Issue
* AVA's Fall 2014 / Winter 2015 Program Brochure
* Glass, Lubin, Karetzky and Sosa
* Kathleen Swift
* AVA's Third Annual Celebration of Upper Valley Artists in Collaboration with Pompanoosuc Mills
* Fall 2014 & Winter 2015 Classes
* AVA's 2014 Annual Meeting
* Sparks!...The Mudroom
* Favorite Programs Begin Again
* Summer Art Camp Lost and Found
* A Time for Change
* Call for Entries: Under One Sun Art and Music Fest
 
 
AVA Gallery and Art Center

11 Bank Street
Lebanon, NH 03766
(603) 448-3117
Glass, Lubin, Karetzky and Sosa  
September 5 - October 8
Opening Reception: Friday, September 5, 5-7pm


Louise Glass - Slow Transformations through Matter

Rebecca Lawrence Gallery Entry and Clifford B. West Gallery

    

Sarah Lubin - Reading into Things

Gallery Talk: Thursday, October 2, 6:00pm

E.N. Wennberg Gallery

    

Laura Karetzky - Opening to page 48...
Also featuring Cantus III, a sound-space piece by composer Manuel Sosa

Gallery Talk: Saturday, September 6, 4:30pm

Elizabeth Rowland Mayor Gallery

 


 
Kathleen Swift   
September 5 - October 8
Opening Reception: Friday, September 5, 5-7pm
 
Homage to Aya - Sumi-e Ink Paintings by Kathleen Swift
Proceeds to Benefit The Aya Itagaki Art Scholarship Fund at AVA

Johnson Sisters Library (second floor)

Click here to download the press release for Kathleen Swift's exhibition. 

 

 
AVA's Third Annual Celebration of Upper Valley Artists in Collaboration with Pompanoosuc Mills    
On Display through September 13
 
Fall 2014 & Winter 2015 Classes, Camps and Workshops
Complete Listing Available Online



We're delighted to share our upcoming education program. Please click through to learn more. Nearly half of our Adult and Teen Classes in the coming six months are brand new offerings!

 

Click here for a first look at AVA's upcoming classes for Adults and Teens. 

 

Click here for a first look at AVA's upcoming classes for Children and Teens. 

 


A Limited Number of Scholarships Are Available    

   

 
Come to AVA's 2014 Annual Meeting
Tuesday, September 16, 6:00-7:30pm

 

All AVA members are cordially invited to our Annual Meeting on Tuesday, September 16, from 6:00 to 7:30pm. Election of new officers and Board members will take place, and the proposed budget for fiscal year 2014-2015 will be discussed and voted on. There will also be a presentation of our exciting plans for the future, and a progress report on recent accomplishments. Please join us for this very special opportunity to learn more about the organization you so generously support!  

 

Refreshments will be served and a free raffle for an original artwork will take place. 

 
Sparks! The Mudroom at AVA 
Thursday, September 18
Refreshments Available at 6:30pm; The Storytelling Starts at 7pm
   

 
The Mudroom, modeled after NPR's The Moth Radio Hour, continues to draw large crowds to AVA for lively evenings with talented storytellers and mesmerized audiences. 

The theme for this September's gathering will be Sparks!

Submissions are still being considered. Click here for more information.

Click here to purchase your $5 admission in advance.  Tickets are available at the door.

Join us! 
 
Art for Kids, Art Lab, CAOS, ART STOP!, CAOS for Toddlers, Senior Art Class Begin Again

 

Art for Kids -- this unique art program for children with chronic medical conditions -- takes place again this fall. Cristina Alcorta, Harrison Jones, and Chengetai Mahomva, all second-year students at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, will run the program during the 2014-2015 academic year. Remaining 2014 sessions will take place on September 14, October 19, November 16, and December 7. The dates for the Winter and Spring sessions will be available at a later time.

Parents who wish to register their children for this free, grant-funded program should contact:

Adam DalPra, NH Partners in Health,

Child and Family Services

PO Box 5223 West Lebanon NH 03784

(603) 518-4348 or email 

Art for Kids is made possible thanks to support from The Brie Fund of the Hitchcock Foundation, in memory of Brieanna Weinstein.

 

Art Lab, the imaginative art program for adults with special needs, will hold its Fall 2014 session from September 3 through November 19. The Winter 2015 program will run December 3 through March 11, with no classes on December 24, December 31 and February 18. As previous, the morning session will meet 9:30-11am and the afternoon session will meet 3:30-5pm. All classes meet on Wednesdays. To register, please contact Pam Blair at Special Needs Support Center: pam@snsc-uv.org or (603) 448-1268. Art Lab is supported by the Highfield Foundation and the Special Needs Support Center.

  

CAOS for Toddlers (CAT), a weekly program on Friday mornings, 9:30-11:30am, for children 1-4 years old, begins again on September 19. Caregivers must remain with their toddlers and are expected to help with clean-up. Materials are provided, and participation is $5 per child. CAOS for Toddlers is made possible in part thanks to a grant from the Highfield Foundation.

 
On Saturday, September 20, 11am-4pm, our weekly CAOS (Community Arts Open Studio) resumes. This favorite family drop-in program takes place on most Saturdays throughout the school year (please call 603-448-3117 to check the schedule during holidays). Materials are provided, and the cost is $5 per child. CAOS is supported in part by a grant from the Highfield Foundation.

 

ART STOP! -- the free afterschool program that encourages youths in grades 5-8 to take inspiration from AVA's ongoing exhibitions to create their own drawings, paintings, and sculptures-begins again on September 16. Meeting weekly on Tuesdays 2:30-5:30pm, ART STOP! is made possible through 2014 thanks to a generous grant from the Couch Family Foundation.   

 

This fall, AVA's partnership with the Grafton County Senior Citizens Center (GCSCC) will continue with Senior Art Class. Seniors are invited to develop their own art projects every Thursday, 9am-12noon, September 4 through November 20 in the fall, and then again December 4 through February 5 in the winter, with no classes on December 25 and January 1. Each session is $5, and a free lunch is provided by the GCSCC. Senior Art Class is supported in part by a grant from the Couch Family Foundation.

 
Summer Art Camp Lost and Found  

 
We had an inspired summer of art camps, with thousands of original artworks making their way into Upper Valley homes. Some young artists, however, left personal belongings with us.

If your child is missing a lunchbox or a water bottle, a hat or a t-shirt, please come by AVA to collect them. The lost and found is located in our lobby coat room.  

 

 
A Time for Change -- 100 Thousand Poets for Change
September 27
 

A TIME FOR CHANGE -- 100 Thousand Poets for Change is a movement that has been occurring for several years. In thousands of locations around the world poets and others will gather on September 27th to share, through verse, music and art, their individual concerns about the state of the our earth and our hope that our words, notes and images will help create change.

 

In the Upper Valley, we will be meeting at the Kilton Library in West Lebanon for an exchange of our poetry focused on the individual poet's concerns about what needs to change. Each poet is welcome to approach change from their own perspective, igniting thoughts and discussions about issues political, social, cultural, global, ecological, war, peace, even personal. As Gandhi said, "You must be the change you wish in the world."

 

Put your ideas and concerns in a poem and bring them to Kilton Library to share with others. Too much we isolate ourselves from the world. We don't reach out to others with our fears, with our hopes, with our dreams. They might play across the small screen in our hand, but they don't recognize the smile on our face when someone else responds. Our gathering of poems can begin to build a community of smiles, and hopes, to make change truly happen.

 

We are also looking for artists concerned with issues of change to exhibit their work concurrently. 

 

2pm to 5pm at Kilton Library, in West Lebanon on Saturday September 27th.
Click here to email for more information.
 
Call for Entries: Under One Sun Art and Music Fest
October 4
 
Artists and musicians interested in participating in the first annual Under One Sun Art and Music Fest in Randolph, VT on Saturday October 4th from 1-8pm are invited to learn more about this new event.