AVA's biggest and best fundraiser and celebration starts in less than a week!

Our 2015 Silent Auction Exhibition opens on Saturday, March 21, when initial bids can be placed on the hundreds of artworks, products and gift certificates on display. A component of the Silent Auction, an exhibition of vintage posters is already on display and open for bidding.

The Silent Auction Party and Final Bidding will be on Saturday, March 28, 5:30-8pm. Please join us.

And here's to AVA's 25 years in Lebanon (more in this eNewsletter)!

~The Board and Staff of AVA Gallery and Art Center  

 

 
AVA's 2015 Silent Auction 
March 21 - 28: Preview and Early Bidding
Silent Auction Party and Final Bidding: Saturday, March 28, 5:30-8pm

Mark your calendars now, and be sure not to miss AVA's 2015 Silent Auction!  

 

All donated auction items -- artwork in a variety of media as well as contributions from the business community, ranging from furniture to gift certificates -- will be available for preview and early-bird bidding for a week prior to the Silent Auction Party.

 

Admission is free during the preview period, and anyone who wishes may place early-bird bids. There is an admission fee, however, to attend the festive Silent Auction Party, when the final bidding will take place.

 

This is a party not to be missed! Be sure to purchase your admission now, as tickets at the door are $50. 

  

 
In This Issue
* AVA's 2015 Silent Auction
* Vintage Posters
* Call for Storytellers: The Mudroom
* Spring / Summer 2015 Education Program
* Nile Project Vacation Camps
* AVA's 2015 Summer Art Camps
* New Hampshire Charitable Foundation Challenge Grant
* AVA's 2015 Summer Camp Assistants and Interns
* AVA Celebrates 25 Years in Lebanon!
* Employment Opportunities
Call to Artists: DownStreet Art
* Call to Artists: Zen Center Art Show
* Call for Entries: Art of Painting
 
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Exhibition and Silent Auction of Vintage Posters from the Collection of Alfred T. Quirk 
On Display through March 28
An exhibition and silent auction of vintage posters from the collection of former AVA Board Chair Alfred T. Quirk is on display in AVA's Johnson Sisters Library through March 28. The exhibition overlaps with AVA's 2015 Silent Auction. Featuring a selection of beautifully framed classic posters, including images from Harper's Bazaar, World War I propaganda posters as well as Dartmouth Winter Carnival Posters, this exhibition/auction will conclude at 7:30pm on March 28 during AVA's Silent Auction Party. While no admission is charged to preview the exhibition or to make early-bird bids, there is an admission fee to attend the Silent Auction Party, when the final bidding takes place.

 

We extend our sincere thanks to Al Quirk, who, over the years, has so generously donated posters from his extensive collection to benefit our nonprofit arts organization.

 
 
Call for Storytellers: The Mudroom -- "Paws and Claws"
Thursday, March 26, 6:30pm



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.

 

We are currently looking for storytellers on the theme "Paws and Claws" for the next Mudroom, scheduled for March 26, 2015. Click here to email for more information about telling your tale at The Mudroom.

 

Click here to purchase your $5 admission in advance of the March 26 event.

 

 

AVA's Spring / Summer 2015 Brochure
Look for it in your mailbox soon!

  

A limited number of scholarships are available     

 

    

 

Nile Project Vacation Camps 

April 13 - 17  




AVA is honored to partner with the Nile Project, the Hopkins Center for the Arts and the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, and the Upper Valley Land Trust to offer this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to children ages 5-8, 9-12 and teens!

 

To register, click your child's age above. 

 

AVA's 2015 Summer Art Camps!
Enrollment Is Open for All!
 
 

Click here to see the complete list of offerings.

AVA members receive significant discounts on tuition. Membership is open to all. 

  

A limited number of scholarships are available     

 

    

 

AVA to Receive a Challenge Grant from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation

Help AVA Meet the Challenge!  


AVA will receive a $10,000 challenge grant for operating support from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation once the grant's matching requirements have been met. This generous grant will support and enhance AVA's education, exhibition, and community programming, including numerous free and low-cost programs, while we simultaneously work to reach our $3.5 million capital campaign goal.

 

New and upgraded memberships as well as donations that exceed previous gift levels will help us meet the challenge. Generous donors who have recently given to AVA may also direct an additional gift to go specifically toward the challenge.

   

 

 

    

 

Thank you for helping AVA meet the challenge! 

 

 
AVA's 2015 Summer Camp Assistants and Interns 
Applications Due April 1 

 

Three of AVA's talented and hardworking 2014 interns.

 

AVA's diverse programs provide dedicated and capable high school and college students the opportunity to make an essential contribution to the work we do in the community, while also gaining important skills as they learn about the art world.

 

Camp Assistants, generally high school students passionate about the visual arts, work directly with faculty members to create exciting and memorable Summer Art Camps for children and teens. The application deadline is April 1.  Click here to download the 2015 Summer Camp Assistant application. 


Interns, generally high school seniors and college students, help in multiple ways with our education, exhibition, and community arts programs. AVA internships are designed with the unique interests of each applicant in mind -  individuals seeking experience in a fine art gallery, arts education and community arts programming, or arts administration, would be rewarded by their time at AVA. The application deadline is April 1. Click here to download the 2015 Internship Application. 

 

 
AVA Celebrates 25 Years in Lebanon!
 

On March 16, 1990 -- after 14 years of being located in various spaces in Hanover, NH, including on the second floor behind the Dartmouth Bookstore -- AVA opened its doors in the former H.W. Carter & Sons overall factory, at 11 Bank Street in Lebanon, NH. Initially, we rented a gallery space on the first floor and a teaching studio on the second floor. The reception for the inaugural exhibition, featuring work by the late Larry Howard, Barbara Kaufman, Philip Morse, Eric O'Leary, the late Barbara Smail, and David Frey Utiger, drew more than 600 visitors. It took place on a balmy Friday afternoon, with temperatures in the 70s, enticing many gallery goers to spill out onto the sidewalk in front of the building that eventually was acquired by AVA in 2003.

 

Now, twenty-five years later, our beautifully renovated, LEED Gold-certified Carter-Kelsey building -- a visual arts center offering year-round exhibitions, art classes for all ages and abilities, and numerous free or low-cost art programs -- has become a magnet for artists and community members alike, drawing visitors and accolades from far and wide. We look forward to the next twenty-five years (and beyond) in Lebanon, and to continue to make art a part of everyday life!


 
The Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College
Employment Opportunities
Two open positions have recently been announced with the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College. Please click the position title for complete application information.

Marketing Studio Manager

Creates strategic marketing campaigns for Hopkins Center events, including overseeing individual event's marketing budgets and delegating assignments to complete audience engagement projects, as requested by the Director of Audience Engagement. Responds to print and digital design direction with an eye toward consistency and on-brand aesthetics, increasing earned income from ticket sales, enhancing the Hopkins Center's image, and building the Center's reputation as an arts center of national prominence and significance.

 

Digital Content Coordinator

Develops, implements and evaluates patron-friendly strategies for the Hopkins Center's digital communications activities including-but not limited to-the website, digital signage system, marketing emails and surveys, social media and online advertising.

 

 
Call to Curators, Artists and Performers: DownStreet Art
Deadline: April 5

 

Now in it's 8th year, DownStreet Art is a summer-long arts festival that takes place in temporary and vacant spaces in downtown North Adams, MA. To date over 125,000 visitors have experienced DownStreet Art's galleries and performances.

 

DownStreet Art is a public art project designed to revitalize downtown North Adams, a post-industrial city in the Berkshires of Western, MA (also home to MASS MoCA). Our mission is to promote artistic excellence, build economic and social capital and encourage the dialogue between our community and the arts. DownStreet Art does this by bringing professional artists and performers to venues throughout downtown North Adams, enlivening Main Street, increasing visitors, enhancing liveablility, and encouraging resident participation.

 

DownStreet Art gives artists and curators competitive opportunities to exhibit their work and to be promoted on a national and international level.

 

For 2015, DownStreet Art is especially interested in proposals from artists and curators that will activate DownStreet Art beyond "DownStreet Art Thursday's". Examples would include proposals that have an ongoing interactive element, temporary outdoor installations, exhibitions that encourage participation or proposals for works-in-progress that will culminate in a performance or exhibition opening.

  

 Click here for complete information. 

 

 
Call to Artists: Second Annual Zen Center Art Show

Deadline: April 10

 

Upper Valley Zen Center will host its second annual art exhibition May 1 and 2, in Eden Abram's SIT GALLERY located beneath the Main StreetMuseum, 58 Bridge Street, White River Junction, VT.

 

The event coincides with "First Night" in White River Junction, showcasing local artists as well as supporting the Zen Center. Income from work sold will be divided equally between the artist and the Zen Center, unless an artist chooses a larger contribution to the Zen Center. Last year's show featured 27 artists and generated almost $4000.  

 

To participate this year, please email a photograph or description along with dimensions of your work, price and artist statement by April 10.  

 

 
Call for Entries: Art of Painting 2015

Deadline: May 1             

 

The Washington Art Association in Washington Depot, CT has an open call for it's 2015 national juried exhibition, which will be judged by William Bailey, the Kingman Brewster Professor emeritus of art at Yale.

 

Click here for complete information and to enter.