Fall is in the air, and the trees are beginning to show their colors. While you're out savoring these last days of summer, we hope you will drop by AVA to enjoy our current exhibitions.

Our Fall education program begins in the next two weeks, including CAOS and CAOS for Toddlers, which both start this week.

Please read on to learn more about the many art offerings here at AVA.

 

All best wishes, 

~The Board and Staff of AVA Gallery and Art Center
 
Glass, Lubin, Karetzky and Sosa  
September 5 - October 8

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

Elizabeth Rowland Mayor Gallery

 


 
Kathleen Swift   
September 5 - October 8
 
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. 

 
In This Issue
* Glass, Lubin, Karetzky and Sosa
* Kathleen Swift
* Fall 2014 & Winter 2015 Classes
* AVA's 2014 Annual Meeting
* Sparks!...The Mudroom
* Favorite Programs Begin Again
* The Social Black Bear
* The Rauschenberg Foundation
* Call for Artists: Bunnell Street Arts Center Residency
 
 
AVA Gallery and Art Center

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

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!

Click here to purchase your $5 admission in advance.  Tickets are also 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.

 
The Social Black Bear: What Bears Have Taught Me about Being Human
A Lecture and Slide Presentation by Ben Kilham

Saturday, September 27, 1:30pm   

 

 

 

Ben Kilham, a resident of Lyme, New Hampshire, is a noted wildlife biologist and an expert in black bear behavior. For more than two decades, Kilham's devotion to black bears has enabled him to closely study their habits and to interact with them. He and his wife Debra have accepted orphaned and injured bear cubs into their home, and, through rehabilitation, enabled them to successfully return to the wild.  

 

Black bears, though thought to be solitary, have a different type of social behavior that possibly parallels early human behavior. Kilham's talk will demonstrate how black bears show evidence of reciprocal altruism, food sharing, and early group formation of unrelated individuals. Bears can live for as many as forty years, which affords them the long-term benefits of forming relationships with fellow cooperators.

 

 

 
The Rauschenberg Foundation
Artist Grants
 
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation grants program aspires to a vibrant, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of creative problem solving.

 Click here for more information about a variety of Artist Grants from the Rauschenberg Foundation.
 
Call for Artists: Bunnell Street Arts Center Residency - Homer, Alaska
Deadline: October 1
 

Bunnell Street Arts Center presents an Artist In Residence program for visiting artists from Alaska, US and International artists to create and share artwork that activates the Arts Center's space and surrounding outdoor neighborhood sites. Bunnell's Artist in Residence presents opportunities through art to explore creative placemaking, shared values and communal stewardship.

 

Bunnell seeks artist-led projects featuring community engagement through art such as poetry, new media, music, ephemeral art, dance, painting, theater, installation, creative writing, or sculpture at the arts center and neighborhood sites such as Bishop's Beach and Beluga Slough.

 

Click here for complete information.