It's hard to believe that summer is winding down and school is starting once again. Thanks to everyone who participated in our amazing summer art camps, to all who joined us at Colburn Park for our plein air art table at the Farmers Market, or came to one of our many events in the gallery. It's been a treat to share experiences in the arts with you.

AVA's Fall programs kick off in the next two weeks. And what a season we have planned! 
  • Our next exhibition opens on Friday, September 9 and is sponsored in part by New Hampshire Humanities.
  • A public art partnership with the Valley News releases on Saturday, September 10. Pick up a paper to get your copy!
  • Classes begin for adults the week of September 10.
  • Classes begin for children the week of September 12.
  • Community programs begin again the week of September 13.
Also of note: the construction of AVA's Sculptural Studies Building is moving along beautifully, and AVA members will have a chance to meet our new Executive Director, Trip Anderson, at our September 20th Annual Meeting. Read on!

Looking forward to seeing you soon,
~The Board and Staff of AVA Gallery and Art Center
 

Werger, Waterman and Kesseler, Adams, Yunger
September 9--October 12
Opening Reception: Friday, September 9, 5-7pm


Paulette Werger - Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
Gallery Talk: Thursday, September 22, 6:00pm
Elizabeth Rowland Mayor Gallery  
Click here to download the press release for Paulette Werger - Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
 
Gar Waterman and Rob Kesseler - Nature Revisioned
Gallery Talk: Thursday, October 6, 6:00pm
Rebecca Lawrence Gallery Entry and Clifford B. West Gallery
Click here to download the press release for Gar Waterman and Rob Kesseler - Nature Revisioned
 
Gina Adams - Its Honor is Here Pledged
Gallery Talk: Friday, September 9, 4:00pm
E.N. Wennberg Gallery
Click here to download the press release for Gina Adams - Its Honor is Here Pledged
 
Joshua Yunger - A B C
Johnson Sisters Library (Second Floor)
Click here to download the press release for Joshua Yunger - A B C

 
A Celebration of Upper Valley Artists at Pompanoosuc Mills  
On display through September 24
 
AVA and the Valley News Partner for a New Public Art Project   
The Valley News and AVA invite you, and your family, to color, cut out, play with, share and enjoy a selection of prints made in an AVA class by Maggie Burnett, of White River Junction; Anwen Morgan, of Grantham; Todd Renninger, of White River Junction; AVA instructor Josh Yunger, of South Strafford; and Adam Blue, of Cornish.

Nature Revisited: Finding Meaning at the Intersection of Art and Science
Rob Kesseler and Gar Waterman
Thursday, October 6, 6pm


Please join us for Rob Kesseler and Gar Waterman in conversation on Thursday, October 6, at 6pm, as they discuss the relationship between art and science in this New Hampshire Humanities sponsored event. 
Fall Afterschool Classes for Children and Teens   
The first session starts the week of September 12 -- Enroll Now! 
Fall Classes for Adults and Teens

With the construction of our new Sculptural Studies Building well underway, it's an exciting time for AVA's Education Program. Registration for our fall programs has begun -- please join us! 
 
 
AVA's Community Programs Begin for the Fall 

Art Lab, the imaginative art program for adults with special needs, continues on Wednesdays in AVA's South Studio. The morning session meets from 9:30 - 11am and the afternoon session meets from 3:30 - 5pm. The Fall 2016 Art Lab will be held August 31 - November 16. To register, please click here to email Pam Blair at Special Needs Support Center or call (603) 448-1268.

AVA's partnership with the Grafton County Senior Citizens Center (GCSCC) will continue with the Senior Art Class. Seniors are invited to develop their own art projects every Thursday, 9am-12noon or 1-4pm, September 1 through November 17 in the fall, and then again December 1 through March 9 in the winter, with no classes on December 22, December 29 and February 23. Each session is $5, and a free lunch is provided by the GCSCC. The fall sessions of Senior Art Class is supported in part by a grant from the Couch Family Foundation and Mascoma Savings Bank.

Art for Kids  The unique art program for children with chronic medical conditions--will take place from 1-3pm on September 11, October 2, November 6, and December 4. Stephanie Castillo, Emily Johnson, and Travis McCain, all second-year students at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, will run the program during the 2016-2017 academic year. The dates for the winter and spring sessions will be available at a later time.
Parents who wish to register their children (siblings are welcome, too!) for this free, grant-funded program should click here to email Jessica Laperle, Children's Hospital at Dartmouth, or call (603) 650-8831.
Art for Kids is made possible thanks to support from The Brie Fund of the Hitchcock Foundation, in memory of Brieanna Weinstein.

ART STOP!  AVA's free afterschool program that encourages youths in grades 5-8 to take inspiration from our ongoing exhibitions and then create their own drawings, paintings, and sculptures--begins on September 13. Meeting weekly on Tuesdays, 3-5:30pm, ART STOP! is made possible thanks to a generous grant from the Couch Family Foundation.

CAOS for Toddlers (CAT), AVA's weekly program on Friday mornings, 9:30-11:30am, where children 1-4 years old make their own original artworks, begins on September 16. Caregivers must accompany and remain with their toddlers and are expected to help with clean-up. Materials are provided, and participation is $5 per child. CAOS for Toddlers is made possible in part thanks to a grant from the Highfield Foundation.

On Saturday, September 17, 11am-4pm, our weekly CAOS (Community Arts Open Studio) resumes. This favorite family drop-in program takes place on most Saturdays throughout the school year (please call 603-448-3117 to check the schedule during holidays). Materials are provided, and the cost is $5 per child. CAOS is supported in part by a grant from the Highfield Foundation.

Do You Need a Copy of AVA's Fall 2016 / Winter 2017 Program Brochure? 

AVA's 2016 Annual Meeting - Join us and meet our future Executive Director! Tuesday, September 20, 6-7:30pm


All AVA members are cordially invited to our Annual Meeting on Tuesday, September 20, from 6:00 to 7:30pm. This year, as we begin preparing for our leadership transition, Bente and our newly selected Executive Director, Trip Anderson, (who officially begins on November 1, as he will overlap with Bente for one month) will both be on hand. This is the perfect venue for our cherished members to meet Trip before he begins his tenure, while at the same time he learns the Annual Meeting ropes, per se. Election of new officers and Board members will take place, and the proposed budget for fiscal year 2016-2017 will be discussed. There will also be a progress report on AVA's Sculptural Studies Building, and recent upgrades to the Carter-Kelsey Building. Please join us to learn more about the organization you so generously support! Refreshments will be served.

AVA Gallery Appoints Trip Anderson as Executive Director

Following an extensive nationwide search, AVA Gallery and Art Center (AVA) announced recently that Paul N. Anderson III, commonly known as Trip Anderson, will lead our nonprofit organization as its new Executive Director upon Bente Torjusen's retirement after a thirty-year tenure. Anderson will officially join AVA Gallery on November 1, 2016. Torjusen will officially retire on December 2, 2016.
 
 
  
 
The Mudroom at AVA

The next installment of AVA Gallery's quarterly story-telling series, The Mudroom, will be held September 22, on the theme "Creation Stories."  

We're looking for a few good storytellers! Stories are limited to 7 minutes, must be true and autobiographical, and must be told live (not read), similar in style and format to "The Moth Radio Hour."  
 
Click here to send story ideas to The Mudroom. Please include a very brief summary of your story (no more than 300 words) and a short bio (no more than 150 words). The deadline for story submissions is September 1. After that date, we will select five stories from the submission pool.

We welcome stories from storytellers of all ages (over 21) and from all towns in the Upper Valley. Storytellers will be given a one-year membership to AVA Gallery as a gift.

In addition to the live storytelling, September 22 Mudroom will feature: 
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Please click here to purchase your $5 AVA member or $7.50 non-member admission in advance.
 
Filmmakers Showcase, Howe Library present
 
 
Cine Salon at 20
Impressions on the Art of the Cinematograph with Bruce Posner
September 19 -- December 12, Mondays 7pm, unless otherwise noted

in collaboration with the AVA Gallery and Art Center, Department of Film and Media Studies and Hood Musuem of Art Dartmouth College, Film Video Digital, Main Street Museum, Vermont Archive Movie Project, Vermont International Film Foundation, and White River Indie Films
 
with generous suport by Claremont Custom Framing, IDVD & Poster, Market Table, Norwich Bookstore, Nugget Theater, Pura Vida Juice & Smoothie Bar, and River Valley Club
 
 
09/19    1 * In Dialogue: Thierry Frémaux, Lumière! Le Cinématographe 1895-1905       Skype chat.
            Director of Cannes Film Festival introduces 114 newly restored films by the Lumière brothers.
            FILM: Lumière! Le Cinématographe 1895-1905 (2015) Compiled by Bertrand Tavernier, Thierry Frémaux
 
09/26    2 * In Dialogue: Trevor Fairbrother, Andy Warhol's Screen Tests and Couch    In person.
            Curator/art historian examines Warhol's original forceful engagement with experimental film.
            FILMS: Screen Tests (10 films, 1964-65) Andy Warhol 40 min / Couch (1964) Andy Warhol 52 min Mature audiences.
            Co-sponsor: The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
 
10/03    3 * In Dialogue: Virginia Heffernan, Magic and Loss, The Internet as Art          In person.
            Author, journalist and culture critic (New York Times, Los Angeles Times) sees the web as a transformative phenomenon. Devices welcome!
            Alternate title: "Virginia Heffernan Goes to the Movies (or How I Learned to Love to Surf Youtube).
            Co-sponsor: The Norwich Bookstore, Inc., Simon and Schuster
 
10/10     4 * Carlos Casa: Audio-Vision Sources for 2001: A Space Odyssey     In person.
            Kroitor Universe (1960) 27:43 min Roman Kroitor, Colin Low / Catalog (1961) John Whitney 7:22 min / Re-Entry (1963) Jordan Belson 6:35 min / others tba
            Special location: Black Family Visual Arts Center-Rm 001, Dartmouth College
            Co-sponsors: Department of Film and Media Studies, Department of Music at Dartmouth College
 
10/15    5 * Home Movie Day 14 with scheduled screenings throughout the day
            10:30    A Day in Santa Fe (1930) Lynn Riggs, James Hughes 29 min
            12;30    Alfred A. Knopf's Home Movies: A Publisher is Known by the Company He Keeps (1961) Jules Victor Schwerin 22 min
            2:30      Windy Ledge Farm (c.1929-34) Elizabeth Woodman Wright 12 min / Hanover Green Kids Fighting (c.1936) 3 min
            Program sponsors: Film Video Digital, Vermont International Film Foundation, Vermont Archive Movie Project
 
10/17    6 * Oscar Michaeux & Spencer Williams: "All-Star Colored Cast"
            FILM: Lying Lips (1939) Oscar Michaeux 68 min / The Blood of Jesus (1941) Spencer Williams 56 min
            Co-sponsor: Main Street Museum
 
10/24    7 * The Pip Dip Film Clip Party: Cine Salon at 20         In person special guests.
            Reception with deluxe food treats, recreation of film critic David Thompson's 1966 2-screen projection of Vincente Minnelli's The Clock (1945), live film music by Bob Merrill to outtakes from Charlie Chaplin's Sunnyside (1919), looping Instagram 15-Second Cinema (2015) by Barron Sherer and more!
            Co-sponsors: River Valley Club, Market Table, Pura Vida Juice & Smoothie Bar, Film Video Digital, Claremont Custom Framing
 
10/31    8 * In Dialogue: Amelie Hastie, Ida Lupino "The "Mother of Us All"     In person.
            Amherst College scholar rethinks female authorship in the Hollywood actress' first directorial effort.
            FILM: Not Wanted (1949) d: Elmer Clifton, Ida Lupino
            Program sponsor: Department of Film and Media Studies Dartmouth College
 
11/07    9 * In Dialogue: David Shepard, American Film Preservationist            Skype chat with special guests.
            Famed DVD producer of silent classics speaks to his tireless efforts to preserve world cinema.
            FILM: Regeneration (1915) Raoul Walsh 73 min / Police (1915) Charles Chaplin 24 min / In the Street (1948) d: Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, James Agee
            Special location: Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Dartmouth College
            Program sponsors: Department of Film and Media Studies Dartmouth College, Vermont International Film             Foundation, Vermont Archive Movie Project
 
11/14    10 * Wicked Woman & Bad Girls
            Wicked Woman (1953) Russell Rouse 77 min
            Bad Girls Go to Hell 1965 Doris Wishman 63 min
            Program sponsor: Main Street Museum
 
11/21    11 * Rediscovering Arthur Lipsett
            Very Nice, Very Nice (1961) 7:10 min / 21-87 (1964) 9:38 min / Free Fall (1964) 9:15 min / A Trip Down       Memory Lane (1965) 12 min / N-Zone (1970) 45:28 min / Poet of Film (2002) Amelia Does 11:34 min
 
11/28    12 * Sidney Lumet's Small Universes
            12 Angry Men (1957) Sidney Lumet 96 min / Murder on the Orient Express (1974) Sidney Lumet 95 min
 
12/05    13 * Cinema Before Stonewall
            Geography of the Body (1943) Willard Maas 7 min / Fragment of Seeking (1946) Curtis Harrington 14 min    / Un Chant d' amour (1950) Jean Genet 25:22 min / Rabbit's Moon (1950) Kenneth Anger 16 min /
            Twice A Man (1964) Gregory Markopolous 44:47 min / Sorrows (1969) Gregory Markopolous 5:29 min
            Program sponsor: Main Street Museum
 
12/12    14 * Over the Rainbow: Bill Cunningham & Peter Hutton, R.I.P.
            On the Street (2014-16) Bill Cunningham 30 min / At Sea (2007) Peter Hutton 59 min
 
09/30 to 10/27   Gallery Exhibition: Ciné Salon at 20
            Co-sponsor: Claremont Custom Framing
 


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