Mothers Day Scholarship Fund Appeal

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This Mother’s Day, please consider honoring the mother in your life by making a charitable donation in any amount to AVA’s Scholarship Fund. 100% of your fully tax-deductible donation will help us provide a child with an enriching art experience.

All donors to AVA’s Scholarship Fund will receive an original AVA greeting card thanking them for their contribution to a young artist’s creative path through AVA’s art classes and camps.

Click here to honor the mother in your life with a donation to AVA’s Mother’s DayScholarship Fund.

2014 Changes to the Juried Show

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New Changes to AVA’s Exhibition Schedule!

AVA is pleased to announce that after twenty successful Juried Summer Exhibitions, we will be switching to a Biennial Juried Summer Exhibition. Going forward, the exhibition will come with a much larger prize opportunity: the winners of the Juror’s Recognition Awards and the Cornelia M. Rahmelow Photography Prize will have their work featured in a summer exhibition the following year.

As a result of this exciting change, in summer 2014, we will feature the work of the artists who received Juror’s Recognition Awards in 2013—Toby Bartles of White River Jct., VT; Michael Heffernan of Newbury, VT; and Joseph Saginor of Cornish, NH—and work by the 2013 winner of the Cornelia M. Rahmelow Photography Prize, Leah Berry of Canaan, NH.

 

The Mudroom – Law and Order

The Mudroom – Law and Order

Mudroom

The Mudroom

Thursday, December 5, 6:30pm

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The Mudroom, an initiative modeled after NPR’s “The Moth Radio Hour,” is where adults in the Upper Valley come together to share real-life stories. Enjoy the story telling, good food and engaging company.

Please save the date for our next gathering of The Mudroom:  Thursday, March 13, 7-9pm.  The theme will be “Spring Fling!”

Public Art :: Spooky Sculptures, Halloween 2013

Public Art Projects

Hidden Spooky Sculptures Made for Free Halloween Treats!


Participants in this fall’s Sculpture Modeling, Plaster Casting, and A Public Art Project, an AVA class taught by Ernest Montenegro, had a great time working with clay to produce original sculptures in clay. Once the final designs were completed, participants made molds from which they created a series of plaster-cast multiples. The plaster sculptures were then hidden throughout the PowerHouse Mall on Halloween-where children and families could find these surprise gifts of art during the mall’s annual trick-or-treating celebrations.

 

AVA wishes to thank the PowerHouse Mall, the sponsor of this Public Art Project.