Our Fall programs are in full swing!

Please read on to learn about the many classes, workshops, artist talks, special events and exhibitions we have to share with you.

All best wishes,
~The Board and Staff of AVA Gallery and Art Center 

p.s. -- The concrete floor has been poured in our Sculptural Studies Building. We're almost there!  

 

Werger, Waterman and Kesseler, Adams, Yunger
On display through October 12


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
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
 

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 Classes for Adults and Teens
 
  Essentials of Direct-Painting Portraiture with Tatiana Yanovskaya-Sink 

9/20    Jump Start Art: Creating Content
9/24    Stone Carving
9/26    Daytime Basic Drawing
9/26    Fiber Fun & Sew-On
9/28    Daytime Open Studio
9/28    Evening Open Studio
9/29    A Passion for Printmaking
10/1    Bookmaking Basics for Artists
10/1    Introduction to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
10/1    Essentials of Direct-Painting Portraiture
10/1    Free! --- Roughing In Stone With a Grinder --- Free!
10/2    Portrait Photography with Natural Light
10/4    Towards Abstraction
10/4    Art for the Very Young: A Workshop for Early Educators, Child Care Providers and Caregivers
10/7    Long-Pose Figure Sculpture and Painting
10/13  Evening Continuing Drawing: Finding One's Visual Voice
10/15  Introduction to Digital Photography
10/15  Free! --- Blacksmithing Demonstration --- Free! 
 
Enrollment is open to all. Scholarships are available.
 
Fall Classes for Children and Teens
 
 
AVA's Community Programs This 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 run through 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, now 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 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 has begun. 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 has also begun again. 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.

Our weekly CAOS (Community Arts Open Studio) has resumed on Saturdays, 11am-4pm. 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.
 
 
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.
 
 
The Mudroom at AVA 
September 22, 6:30pm
 
Inspired by the Moth Radio Hour, The Mudroom at AVA provides audiences with live storytelling, live music and local foods and refreshments. It's a fabulous quarterly event, and you're invited to join us on Thursday, September 22 for the latest installment: Creation Stories! 
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Click here to purchase your $5 AVA member or $7.50 non-member admission in advance. This event will sell out, so please consider purchasing your admission in advance.
 


Kyudo: The Way of the Bow
弓道  

Free Kyudo Demonstration
Friday, October 14, 6-7:30pm

"First Shot" Workshop
Saturday, October 15, 9am-4pm

Kyudo means "the way of the bow" and is an ancient form of Japanese archery. It is also a meditation practice, often referred to as "Zen archery." Practicing Kyudo involves focusing one's attention and calming one's mind for the precise drawing of the bow and release of the arrow. It is a path to opening one's heart and mind to the natural dignity of being human, beyond the obstacles of ambition, doubt, and loneliness. Hitting the target is not considered important.

"You do not practice Kyudo to polish your form. You practice Kyudo to polish your heart."-Kanjuro Sendai

A Kyudo demonstration to introduce the "First Shot" Workshop will be offered on Friday, October 14, from 6-7:30pm. We will also discuss how Kyudo as a martial art became a meditation practice. The Kyudo demonstration is free and open to the public.

Those interested in learning Kyudo can click here to sign up for the "First Shot" Workshop, a daylong practice to be held on Saturday, October 15, 9am-4pm. "First Shot" gives the beginner an opportunity to practice the Seven Coordinations (Shichido), the basic form of Kyudo as meditation. Proceeds from the "First Shot" Workshop will go to the Aya Itagaki Scholarship Fund at AVA. Adults and older teenagers are welcome to participate. 
 
Instructors: Ray Chin, Grace DiNapoli, and Tom Kyle teach kyudo in Thetford, Barre, and Barnett, VT, respectively. All are students of Kanjuro Shibata Sensei XXI, a bow maker and kyudo master whose lineage spanned 21 generations of master bow makers.
Filmmakers Showcase, Howe Library presents
 
 
Cine Salon at 20
Impressions on the Art of the Cinematograph with Bruce Posner
September 19 -- December 12

Click here to see the complete program of events

Cine Salon is presented 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,
 
And with generous support by Claremont Custom Framing, IDVD & Poster, Market Table, Norwich Bookstore, Nugget Theater, Pura Vida Juice & Smoothie Bar, and River Valley Club.
 
Mayer Room
Howe Library
13 South Street
Hanover, NH
603-643-4120
 
Arts Bus Is Seeking an Executive Director
Arts Bus Inc. seeks a full-time executive director committed to the value of the arts in child development.

Requirements: grant writing and donor cultivation; manage contract-based artists and one staff member; drive the bus (no CDL required); website management. 5 years of experience in non-profit management preferred. 
 
Please click here to email for complete information. Resume, cover letter, and three references are due by September 28, 2016.
Call for Artists: Just A Minute Festival 
Deadline: September 30  
 
The Just A Minute Festival is an online, viewer's choice event that encourages people to use the technology they have around them to tell stories, record events, move with emotion or create art. Films can be of any genre or on any subject. The only requirement is that the film is no more than 60 seconds in total running time. There are cash prizes and no entry fee.

Click here for complete details. 
Call for Artists: Healing With Art   
Deadline: October 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 also provides a benefit for caregivers who accompany the patient to treatment. This is because art provides a therapeutic refuge for those in need of finding perspective on what is happening in their lives. This exhibit is intended to offer enlightenment and encouragement to patients, families, and staff of the Cancer Centers and will hang for four months at the Centers.
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