Though fall has come early this year, it's been beautiful. We hope you've had time to enjoy the colors as they change, and that you're inspired to take this abundance of natural beauty and transform it into your own creative work.

We have a delightful assortment of programs starting soon. Please read on to learn more.

 

Warm regards, 

~The Board and Staff of AVA Gallery and Art Center
 
Hathaway-Zepeda, Vivell, Wennberg   
October 17 - November 14
Opening Reception: October 17, 5pm



Case Hathaway-Zepeda - Surfacing

Gallery Talk: Thursday, November 6, 6:00pm

Rebecca Lawrence Gallery Entry

 

Judith Vivell - Out Along the Connecticut: New England's Magnificent Wild Turkey

Gallery Talk: Saturday, October 18, 4:30pm

Clifford B. West Gallery

 

Coralea Wennberg - River Paintings

Gallery Talk: Thursday, October 23, 5:30pm

E.N. Wennberg Gallery and Elizabeth Rowland Mayor Gallery

 

 

AVA wishes to thank Caldwell Law for underwriting this exhibition.

   


 
In This Issue
* Hathaway-Zepeda, Vivell, Wennberg
* Glass, Lubin, Karetzky and Sosa
* Kathleen Swift
* Fall 2014 Classes
* Kyudo -- First Shot
* AVA's 2014-2015 Annual Fund
* Sparks!...Video Online
* Film as Folk Art
* Art Lab Exhibition at DHMC
* Call for Entries: Guerrilla
 
 
AVA Gallery and Art Center

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

Glass, Lubin, Karetzky and Sosa  
Through 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   
Through 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. 

 

 

A Limited Number of Scholarships Are Available    

   

 
Kyudo -- First Shot
Free Demonstration: Friday, October 17, 6-7pm 
First Shot Workshop to Benefit the Aya Itagaki Scholarship Fund:
Saturday, October 18, 9am-4pm

 

 

Kyudo means "the way of the bow" and is an ancient form of Japanese archery. It is also a meditation practice, often referred to as "Zen archery." Practicing kyudo involves focusing one's attention and calming one's mind for the precise drawing of the bow and release of the arrow. It is a path to opening one's heart and mind to the natural dignity of being human, beyond the obstacles of ambition, doubt, and loneliness. Hitting the target is not considered important.  

 

"You do not practice kyudo to polish your form. You practice kyudo to polish your heart." -- Kanjuro Shibata Sensei XX

 

Those interested in learning kyudo can sign up for the "First Shot" Workshop, a daylong program to be held on Saturday, October 18, 9am-4pm. "First Shot" gives the beginner an introduction to the Seven Coordinations (Shichido), the basic form of kyudo as meditation. Adults and older teenagers are welcome to participate.

 

A Kyudo demonstration to introduce the "First Shot" Workshop will be offered on Friday, October 17, from 6-7pm. The Kyudo demonstration is free and open to the public.

 

Instructor: Ray Chin is the instructor of a small group of kyudokas who practice regularly in Thetford, VT. He was a student of Kanjuro Shibata Sendai, a bow maker and kyudo master whose lineage spanned 20 generations of master bow makers. Shibata Sendai died in October 2013.

 
AVA's 2014-2015 Annual Fund   

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This October, AVA is launching our 2014-2015 Annual Fund campaign, one of our most important fundraisers of the year. Donations to our Annual Fund support all facets of our programming, and your gift is greatly appreciated.

Click here to learn more about AVA's 2014-2015 Annual Fund.
 
 
Sparks! The Mudroom at AVA 
 
Film as Folk Art: The Home Movie Aesthetic

Wednesday, October 8, 7pm   


As digital technology rapidly replaces celluloid as a means of capturing moving images, the cultural, historical, and aesthetic value of films shot by untrained amateurs of their family events, travels, and communities using inexpensive mass market 8 and 16 mm cameras has become more and more apparent. At their best, these do-it-yourself treasures can be thought of as beautiful works of folk art.


This program is free and open to the public. Please join us!
 
 
Art Lab Exhibition at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Opening Reception: Tuesday, October 14, 5pm 

You are invited to the opening reception for a new exhibition of artworks made by participants in Art Lab. The show will be hanging in the long hallway on the fourth floor at DHMC, easily accessible from the reception area. Please join us. 

 
 
Call for Entries: Guerrilla
Deadline: October 13
 
John A. Cade Center for Fine Arts

Anne Arundel Community College

Arnold, Maryland


Exhibition dates: November 10-December 12

THEME: Guerrilla

The Cade Art Gallery seeks work that makes a statement or is interventionist in some way. Though urban art is defined as unauthorized art in a public place, the gallery seeks to recreate the feel of the Guerrilla Art revolution within its gallery walls. Artists working in chalk, stencil, sticker art, wheat pasting, fliers, posters, object-leave-behinds, notes, letters, zines, screen printing, drawing, painting, sculpture, appropriation, photography, video projection, art intervention, or any other relevant media are welcome to apply. Works may be "trapped" art that hang on the gallery walls or the walls themselves may be a canvas for a proposed project. Subject matter may range from activism to politics to the playful and imaginative.


JUROR
Lisa Gold currently serves as Executive Director of Washington Project for the Arts, a leading non-profit organization whose mission is to support artists and promote contemporary art in the Washington, DC region. She has over twenty years of diverse experience in arts management, fundraising, development, programming, outreach, marketing, advertising, and public relations.  With a career that began in Washington, DC, her previous roles have included Public Relations and Marketing Director at The Drawing Center, New York, NY; Director of Development and Communications at Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY; Outreach and Development Director at apexart, New York, NY; as well as Associate Director and Account Management positions at advertising and marketing agencies in the private sector in Washington, DC and New York, NY.

 

Click here for complete information about how to apply.