Happy Summer to all!

We continue our exciting June line-up with the Opening Reception for the Fearsome Foursome Exhibition on Friday, June 19; live storytelling at the "All in the Family"-themed Mudroom on Thursday, June 18; and a trip to New York City for the Frida Kahlo Exhibition at the New York Botanical Gardens on Wednesday, June 17.

On top of all that, Summer Art Camps for children ages 5-8, 9-12, and teens beginning on Monday, June 22.

So much to do! Join us!

Yours in the arts,

~The Board and Staff of AVA Gallery and Art Center

 

 

 
Osher @ AVA - The Fearsome Foursome: Kelsey, Reininger, Semprebon, Tate
June 19 - July 18
In AVA's Stone Carving Studio on the 1st Floor
Opening Reception: Friday, June 19. 5-7pm
In This Issue
* Osher @ AVA - The Fearsome Foursome
* The Mudroom -- All in the Family
* Call for Artists: AVA's 2015 Juried Summer Exhibition
* New York Botanical Garden & Frida Kahlo Exhibition
* Gruhler, Wrend, Hawkins, Karol
* Kira's Garden Sculpture Exhibition
* Classes Starting Soon
* AVA's 2015 Summer Art Camps
* Summer Programs for Teens
* Summer Camps for Adults
* Remembering John Joline
* Lebanon, NH #1 Small Town in America
* Seeking Dress-Ups and Toys
* Call to Artists: Healing With Art
* Call to Artists: Annual Contemporary Art Survey
 
Follow-up Links
 
AVA Gallery and Art Center

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

The Mudroom at AVA      

The June 18th Mudroom Will Be on the Theme "All in the Family."

 

 

 

In the spirit of "This American Life," "The Moth", "Arctic Entries" and other storytelling events, The Mudroom brings Upper Valley residents to the stage to share their personal stories, be they adventurous, mysterious, funny, sad or sweet. At each performance, five selected speakers tell a seven-minute long story relating to the show's theme. Live music is featured before the storytelling, at the intermission, and at the conclusion of the event.

   

Click here to pre-purchase your $5 admission. 

 

Call for Artists: AVA's 2015 Juried Summer Exhibition
Work Drop-Off: July 11, 13, 14
Opening Reception: Friday, July 24, 5-7pm



Juror:  Susan Strickler, Director, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH


 

Wednesday, June 17
$95 /AVA-members; $125 /non-members

The trip is now full -- please call (603) 448-3117 to be put on the waitlist.

 

  

AVA is offering a one-day bus trip to the New York Botanical Garden on Wednesday, June 17 in conjunction with the exhibition Frida Kahlo: Art - Garden - Life. The cost is $95 for AVA members; $125 for non-members. Membership is open to all. 

 

Click here for complete information about this exceptional opportunity. 

    

 
Gruhler, Wrend, Hawkins, Karol
June 5 -- July 10

   
Paul Gruhler and Judith Wrend -- Harmonics
Rebecca Lawrence Gallery Entry and Clifford B. West Gallery
 
Christine Hawkins -- Recent Work 
E.N. Wennberg Gallery
Gallery Talk: Thursday, June 25, 5:30pm
Fitzhugh Karol -- Recent Work  
Elizabeth Rowland Mayor Gallery
Gallery Talk: Friday, July 10, 6pm

    

 
Kira's Garden Sculpture Exhibition

   

Featuring works by:

Bill Martin of Grantham, NH
Liz Sibley Fletcher of Mason, NH
Scott Gordon of Norwich, VT 
Fitzhugh Karol of Brooklyn, NY
Michael Kraatz and Susan Russell of Canaan, NH 
John Kemp Lee of White River Junction, VT 
Phil Lonergan of Campton, NH
Lynn Newcomb of Worcester, VT
Teresa Taylor of Barnstead, NH
Jamie Townsend of Springfield, VT

Click here to download the press release for Kira's Garden. 

    

 
 
AVA's 2015 Summer Art Camps
AVA Camps Are Filling Fast, Enroll Now!
June 22 - August 21, 2015  
 

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

  

A limited number of scholarships are available.      

 

    

 
 

Summer Camps for Adults

Why Should Kids Have All the Fun?  

Enroll In Either of These Programs and Bring a Friend for Free! 



Painting Intensive with Murray Ngoima

June 29 - July 2    Painting Intensive 
Intermediate and advanced painters seeking an extended, dedicated painting experience are invited to join this intensive program. AVA's beautiful South Studio will transition into your personal workspace, allowing you to develop your individual projects over multiple days with ongoing guidance from the instructor. Click here for complete information.



Plein Air Art Adventure with Althea Goundrey 
 

July 20-23  Plein Air Art Adventure
Join fellow artists on a four day, three night art adventure at the limited-access Dartmouth Second College Grant in scenic northern New Hampshire. Tour the Grant and learn about the many options available to painters, photographers and sculptors. Go on daily outings of walking, hiking, boating and/or driving to discover the many locations suitable for creating art, and participate in evening group critiques. Enjoy meals, conversations, and games in the well-equipped rustic cabins. This program offered in association with the Dartmouth Outing Club. Click here for complete information.

 

 
Remembering John Joline, AVA Instructor par excellence

 

 

The AVA family has lost one of its cherished members: John F. Joline IV died on June 3, following an almost three-year long valiant fight with cancer. For more than twenty years, John has been one of our core instructors, teaching magnificent art classes for children as well as adults, including Cartooning, Delights of Drawing in Pencil and Pen, Digital Photography for Kids, Acrylic Painting, Rigorous Representation, Architectural Design and Holistic Collaborative Drawing. Over the years, hundreds and hundreds of children delighted in his teaching, and John, in turn, took the greatest pleasure in encouraging the talent of his students.

 

John, who held a degree in Studio Art from Dartmouth College and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, was an expert in the theory of Cubism. He was a passionate mountain climber and touched hundreds of lives as a mentor and climbing guru through the Dartmouth Outing Club. Not surprisingly, the natural world always served as a source of inspiration for his art, though his paintings-some of which will be displayed at AVA in the fall-are more expressionistic, relating visually to the "abstract thanks" of Eastern Art.

 

According to the wishes of his family, memorial contributions can be made to AVA's Scholarship Fund, and mailed to 11 Bank Street, Lebanon, NH 03766. Gifts in John's memory will be applied to scholarships for children and teens to take classes at AVA.

 

John leaves a huge void and is deeply missed by us all.


 

Livability.com Names Lebanon, NH #1 Small Town in America

Names AVA Gallery and Art Center in their List of Reasons Why
   


 

Seeking Dress-Ups and Toys   

 

AVA's Children's Studio and Children's Loft feature a wide assortment of dress ups and toys to inspire creative play among our youthful participants.

Needless to say, our current collection has gotten lots of love, and we'd appreciate refreshing the collection for a fun-filled summer of further enjoyment.

If you have a collection of children's costumes and toys, in good condition, that are looking for a second life as impromptu theater props, please click here to let us know. Thanks!

 

 

Call to Artists: Healing With Art 

The Friends of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center   

Deadline: July 10   

 

 

 

The Friends of Norris Cotton Cancer Center has issued a call for art for an exhibit to be hung in the Norris Cotton Cancer Centers in Lebanon, Manchester, and Nashua. The exhibit is based on the belief that art contributes to and reinforces the healing process for patients who have been diagnosed with and are receiving treatment for cancer. Art provides a therapeutic refuge for those in need of finding perspective on what is happening in their lives, and this exhibit is intended to offer enlightenment and encouragement to patients, families, and staff of the Cancer Centers.This exhibit will be hung for four months at the Centers.


Click here for complete information. 
 

Call to Artists: Annual Contemporary Art Survey    

Deadline: June 19   


The Fort Collins Lincoln Center invites visual artists residing in the US to enter our national juried Annual Contemporary Art Survey with Guest Curator Dean Sobel, Executive Director of the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, CO. The exhibition is an open call to artists working in all media and reflects the artists' capacity to consider the wide world of objects and ideas they encounter in creating art. We are seeking works in all media that together will present a survey of contemporary art in America. Representational and conceptual work will be considered. $1700 in cash prizes.
 
Juror: Dean Sobel was instrumental in the creation and development of the Clyfford Still Museum and has been the museum's Director since its opening in February 2005. A specialist in 20th Century art, Sobel was the Director of the Aspen Art Museum from 2000-2005 and was concurrently Chief Curator and Curator of Contemporary Art at the Milwaukee Art Museum. He has organized over 60 exhibitions of international contemporary art including multiple solo retrospectives. He is the author of One Hour Ahead: The Avant-Garde in Aspen, 1945-2004, published in 2004.

Click here for complete entry information.