It continues to be a great summer at AVA. Summer campers are still keeping the building buzzing with creative energy, and our exhibitions-including the Juried Summer Exhibition, which remains on display through August 28-draw visitor from near and far. Off site, A Celebration of Upper Valley Artists opens in East Thetford, VT on Saturday, August 15. This is the fourth year that AVA has collaborated with Pompanoosuc Mills on an exhibition in their showrooms.
 
Our Fall 2015 / Winter 2016 brochure will be inserted in the Valley News on Saturday, August 15; it will be sent to our mailing list shortly afterwards. We are eager to share with you the many exciting programs planned for the next six months.
 
We hope to welcome you at AVA soon!
~The Board and Staff of AVA Gallery and Art Center
 
A Celebration of Upper Valley Artists in Collaboration with Pompanoosuc Mills
August 15 - September 20
Opening Reception:Saturday, August 15, 4-7pm
 
This exhibition is being held at Pompanoosuc Mills in East Thetford, VT. 
 
In This Issue
* A Celebration of Upper Valley Artists in Collaboration with Pompanoosuc Mills
* AVA's 2015 Juried Summer Exhibition
* Joaquin Andres: the jump off
* Adult Classes Starting Soon
* AVA's Fall 2015 Winter 2016 Brochure
* Thank You, AVA Interns!
* Call for Storytellers: The Mudroom
* Successful Inclusion in Arts Programs
* Call for Artists: Center for the Arts
* Call for Artists: Focus: Fiber 2016
 
Follow-up Links
 
AVA Gallery and Art Center

11 Bank Street
Lebanon, NH 03766
(603) 448-3117
 
AVA's 2015 Juried Summer Exhibition
On Display through August 28


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.

 
Joaquin Andres: the jump off...
July 24 - August 31
On AVA's 3rd Floor
 

Adult Classes and Workshops Starting Soon  

 
AVA's Fall 2015 Winter 2016 Brochure
Inserted in the Valley News on Saturday, August 15 
And in Your Mailbox Soon! 
 

 

    

 
Thank You, AVA Interns!
 


Many of AVA's diverse programs are made possible through the dedicated contributions of our capable and enthusiastic interns. Thank you for an incredible summer!

Pictured here, clockwise from top left: Emma Webster, Claire Callahan, Mila Pinigin, Stephanie Hammer, Marissa Newlove, and Sarah Fall. 
 
Call for Storytellers: The Mudroom
September 17, "Work It, Baby" 
 
The Mudroom, modeled after NPR's The Moth Radio Hour, continues to draw large crowds to AVA for lively evenings featuring talented storytellers, mesmerized audiences, live music, and locally sourced refreshments.

The Thursday, September 17 event will be on the theme "Work It, Baby." 
 
If you have a tale to tell, please click here to email a summary of your story to the Mudroom team. 

 
Successful Inclusion in Arts Programs: A Workshop for Teaching Artists
Monday, August 31, 9:30am-2:30pm at AVA
 
Register now for "Successful Inclusion in Arts Residencies & Programs: A Workshop for Teaching Artists," presented by the Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire & VSA New Hampshire as part of their Arts in Inclusive Learning collaboration, provided under a contract with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Workshop cost is $15, with scholarships available and professional development credit offered.

Teaching Artists frequently find that the groups they work with in residencies, classes and programs both in and out of school include a wide variety of students with physical, emotional and developmental special needs and learning challenges. Using Universal Design for Learning, an approach to fully inclusive teaching, participants in this workshop will explore how best to plan for a wide variety of learners in ways that optimize the arts experience for every student--and for the learning group as a whole.

In the workshop, several teaching artists in different disciplines who wish to increase their comfort in practicing UDL principles with students with special needs will offer interactive lessons to their peers. Guided by master teacher Deborah Stuart, the group will provide feedback and commentary. Deborah will offer coaching on best practices for students with different needs and will lead workshop participants in a discussion of challenges that might arise in presenting lessons and ideas in a variety of situations.

After these sample lessons, all TAs attending will have opportunities to share challenges and questions which have arisen in their own work and to engage in discussion, both about what has worked well and about what tools would be helpful in similar situations.  

Click here to learn more and to register.

The workshop will also be held Tuesday, August 25, in Concord, NH. 

 
Call for Artists: Center for the Arts, Lake Sunapee Region, Juried Regional Show
Deadline: September 1 
 
Judge: Pamela R. Tarbell, Owner and Director of the Mill Brook Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Concord, NH, for the past eighteen years.    
 
 
 
Call for Artists: Focus: Fiber 2016
Deadline: August 30

Innovative two- and three-dimensional fiber art is encouraged. Individual and collaborative entries are invited. Each entry must be an original work completed after June 2013. Work produced in a classroom or under instruction is not eligible.

The exhibition is co-sponsored by the Textile Art Alliance of the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Kent State University Museum.

Click here for complete information.