With summer art camps in full swing and the 2015 Juried Summer Exhibition just around the corner--work to be considered for inclusion may be submitted on July 11, 13 and 14--AVA's Carter-Kelsey Building is buzzing with activity.

 

Outdoors art activities abound, as well. Join AVA's plein air art adventures at the Lebanon Farmers Market on Thursdays from 4-7pm (weather permitting), and combine that with a visit to see our exhibitions, as the gallery hours are extended to 7pm on Thursdays.


All best wishes,

~The Board and Staff of AVA Gallery and Art Center

 

 

 

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


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




AVA wishes to thank Ledyard National Bank, generous sponsor of the 2015 Juried Summer Exhibition.
In This Issue
* Call for Artists: AVA's 2015 Juried Summer Exhibition
* Osher @ AVA - The Fearsome Foursome
* Gruhler, Wrend, Hawkins, Karol
* Kira's Garden Sculpture Exhibition
* Adult Classes Starting Soon
* AVA's 2015 Summer Art Camps
* Summer Programs for Teens
* Thank You, Althea!
* Public Art: Lebanon Rail Trail
* Art for Kids
* Remembering John Joline
* Fulcrum Arts Center
 
Follow-up Links
 
AVA Gallery and Art Center

11 Bank Street
Lebanon, NH 03766
(603) 448-3117
 
Osher @ AVA - The Fearsome Foursome: Kelsey, Reininger, Semprebon, Tate
June 19 - July 18
In AVA's Stone Carving Studio on the 1st Floor
 
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
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!
Camps Every Week through August 21, 2015  
 
Campers play a synthesizer inside the inflatable planetarium sculpture they built in AVA's Airplanes and Outer Space Camp with Christine Orcutt Henderson and Josh Yunger, June 2015. 

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

  

A limited number of scholarships are available.      

 

    

 
 
Thank You, Althea
Thursday, July 2, 4-6pm

 

Althea Goundrey, who has been AVA's Studio Manager for five years, will be leaving AVA to become the Education Coordinator at the Enfield Shaker Museum.  

 

Please join us for a reception in our galleries on Thursday, July 2 from 4-6pm to thank Althea for her wonderful service and to wish her well in her new position.

 
Public Art: Lebanon Rail Trail

 

Take a walk, a run or a bicycle ride on the Northern Rail Trail between Spencer Street and Bank Street Extension and you will discover sculptures created by local youths and seasoned artists. These creations, which are primarily made from repurposed cardboard rolls, bring levity and play to the edges of the Rail Trail.

 

The participants in this project were Jeff MacQueen and Todd Renninger, Lebanon Middle School (LMS) art teachers; Abigail Pauls, Chehalis Jones, Jillian Miller, Skye Gulledge and Brianna Arpaia, LMS students; Janet Farley, Allison Flint, Nancy Maynard, Kelly McCarthy, Lucy and Eliza McLellan, Aimee Larson, Robin Weisburger and Althea Goundrey.

 

AVA Gallery and Art Center wishes to thank the participating artists for their imaginative projects, and the City of Lebanon and State of New Hampshire for encouragement and approval of making art part of everyday life!

 

 

 

Art for Kids Featured in the Geisel NewsCenter 

 

 

 

For the past eight years, AVA has collaborated with the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College to offer Art for Kids, a unique art program where children with chronic medical conditions make art with medical students.

Artworks from the program are currently being displayed at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, and the Geisel NewsCenter has recently published an article on the program. The Art for Kids exhibition runs through Friday, July 31, 2015, in the Matthews-Fuller Health Sciences Library located on the fifth floor of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Click here to read the Geisel NewsCenter article.

 
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 and adults 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 thankas" 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.

 

Please join us to remember John on Saturday, September 12, at 4pm, when the "Celebration of a Life Well Loved and Well Lived" will take place in AVA's South Studio. 

 

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

 
 

Fulcrum Arts Center Opens in Brattleboro, VT

 

 

 

Fulcrum Arts is a destination arts facility for the creation, instruction, and promotion of silica-based arts (main ingredient in both glass and clay). Fundamental to their mission is making fine crafts accessible to a wide range of people. To that end, Fulcrum Arts serves Brattleboro and the surrounding area as an inviting center for people to view, purchase, and learn about glass and ceramic art. They provide gallery talks, ongoing classes, workshops, and private tutoring in the glass and ceramic studios as well as a public arena to view glassblowing and the creation of ceramic art during the day and evening. 

 

Fulcrum Arts houses a gallery and studio facilities that provide numerous ways for prospective buyers to view finished works and work in progress; as well as to learn about the tools, techniques, and artistry of fine glass and ceramic pieces. Interested collectors and buyers can purchase finished one-of-a-kind pieces and functional wares and commission new work. They offer design consultation for in-home art placement as well. Solin and Blake, both highly acclaimed artists in their fields, also teach master classes and workshops.

 

Visit Fulcrum Arts for a unique experience. Take a tour of their facilities, try your hand at carving clay or glassblowing (during scheduled events) and shop their gallery where you will find not only the work of our two on site studios, but also that of several highly skilled local artisans.

 

Click here to visit the Fulcrum Arts Website.