Happy December to all!

We've scheduled some exciting events in the coming weeks. Please join us to see the hundreds of artworks by AVA members on display in our 2014 Holiday Exhibition and Sale -- it's a delightful show.

In addition, you can look forward to our Annual Open House, The Mudroom, and a book reading by Ernest Hebert!

 

Onward with the arts, 

~The Board and Staff of AVA Gallery and Art Center
 
AVA's 2014 Holiday Exhibition and Sale 
On Display through December 24 



AVA's 2014 Holiday Exhibition and Sale features over 300 fine art and fine craft objects made by AVA members. Please come see the show -- it is a testament to the incredible range of artistic talent in our community.

Purchased works can be taken home when you buy them, and we replenish the exhibition as works go to their new homes -- so visit more than once! The exhibition changes throughout the month of December.

Extended holiday hours include:
Sundays, December 14 and 21, 12noon-4pm
Mondays, December 1, 8, 15, and 22, 11am-5pm
Wednesday, December 24, 11am-3pm 
 
In This Issue
* AVA's 2014 Holiday Exhibition and Sale
* Winter 2015 Classes
* AVA Gift Certificates
* AVA Public Art
* AVA Open House
* December Mudroom Call for Stories
* Ernest Hebert's Howard Elman's Farewell
* AVA's 2014-2015 Annual Fund
* Call for Artists: Chroma
* Call for Artists: International Painting IV
 
 
AVA Gallery and Art Center

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

A limited number of scholarships are available    

   

 
Give the Gift of Art with an AVA Gift Certificate   



An AVA Gift Certificate is the perfect way to celebrate the arts with your friends and family.

Redeemable for any class and available in any amount, an AVA Gift Certificate offers a dazzling array of inspired options to the recipient. Gift Certificates may also be applied to memberships or toward the cost of acquiring a favorite work of art.

 

Click here to purchase an AVA Gift Certificate. 

 
 
AVA Public Art    



In November 2014, AVA was delighted to partner with the Upper Valley Humane Society (UVHS) to create a new public art project.

 

Participants in AVA's Fall 2014 Linocut and A Public Art Project!, taught by Josh Yunger, created blocks of their own original designs featuring animals as the subject. Using donated ink and paper, participants gifted some of their prints to the Upper Valley Humane Society. UVHS displayed the amazing artworks as decorations on the tables at their 2014 auction, and presented them as surprise presents to the attendees.  

 

Click here to see more of these delightful prints! 

 
 

Open House at AVA's Carter-Kelsey Building 

December 6, 11am-4pm   

 

 

 

Please join us on Saturday, December 6, 11am to 4pm, for AVA's Annual Open House.

Visitors are invited to watch artist demonstrations, tour AVA's LEED gold-certified "green" building, meet with AVA faculty members, and enjoy unique glimpses into the working artists' studios on the second and third floor.

AVA's Holiday Exhibition and Sale will be on display, featuring artwork in a rich variety of media, and CAOS (Community Arts Open Studio) will be free.

We'll have light refreshments and live music, too. Come explore all the creative possibilities happening at AVA this season!

 
The Mudroom, "Outliers"

Thursday, December 11: Refreshments at 6:30pm, Storytelling 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.  


Stories told at the December 11 event will be on the theme, "Outliers."

Music will be provided by Etna Old Time Association.

Food from Carline and Balvin's Jamaican Jerk will be available for purchase.

Beverages from Poverty Lane Orchard & Farnum Hill Ciders will be available by donation.

Ages 21+ please.

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

There's still time to submit a story. Click here for more information. Come join the fun!  
 
 

Ernest Hebert's Howard Elman's Farewell

Reading and Book Signing

Tuesday, December 16, 7pm 

 

Please join us on Tuesday, December 16 at 7pm for an evening with author Ernest Hebert (and former AVA board member).   

 

Hebert will be reading from his latest book, Howard Elman's Farewell, and signing copies afterward. Howard Elman's Farewell is the seventh book in Hebert's Darby Series, novels about the transitions of a fictional New Hampshire town. Hebert is from Keene, NH and teaches English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth.  

 

 

 

"Hebert's American saga, with its colorful characters and intriguing word play, is an enduring accomplishment." - Publishers Weekly  

 

 
AVA's 2014-2015 Annual Fund   

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October marked the launch of AVA's 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. We hope you will AVA to your gift-giving list this season.

Click here to donate to and learn more about AVA's 2014-2015 Annual Fund.
 
 
Call for Artists: Chroma
Deadline: December 7

Chroma is a national juried exhibition of work on hue, saturation and value that will be held at Gallery 263 in Cambridge, MA. Artists are invited to apply with their most glowing, blushing, luscious artwork in any medium.  

Click here for complete information and to enter. 

 
Call for Artists: International Painting IV

Deadline: December 30  


The Jeffrey Leder Gallery will start the new year with an expansive exhibit: "International Painting NYC IV." The exhibit will occupy 2 floors of the gallery. They are located in Long Island City, New York City: 8 minutes from Manhattan, around the corner from MoMA PS1 Museum, 2 blocks from the Sculpture Center and 6 Blocks from the Noguchi Museum.

Open to all artists, American and international, who have created work within the discipline of the painting medium. This exhibition celebrates the range of creative exploration in painting. Each painting will be considered based on the merit of each single piece.

Click here for complete information and to enter.