Public Art Projects
Seven teens participated in AVA’s Public Art Murals Camp, led by Julie Püttgen. Each made their own 3′ x 6′ painting on canvas. Once hanging on the fence in Lebanon’s Colburn Park, the installation measures an impressive 3′ x 63′.
Participants visited Cedar Circle Farm in East Thetford, VT to learn about contemporary organic farming practices, take source photographs, and inspire their work. Back in the studio, they developed content around themes of community, farmers’ markets, agriculture, and America’s suspect eating habits.
The paintings were installed for July and August 2012.
Public Art Projects
In celebration of their 50th anniversary, The Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College is launching Hands on Pianos, a public art project that will install fancifully decorated pianos in public spaces throughout the Upper Valley in July 2012!
Visual artists — click here to download the Call for Entries for your chance to design one of the pianos and be part of this fantastic project!
The Hands on Pianos public art project is free to enter.
Get involved with this public art project — it promises to be a great one!
AVA Gallery and Art Center is delighted to be one of the co-sponsors of Hands on Pianos!
Public Art Projects
AVA’s Fall 2011 Public Art Project: Linocut and Corkboards was installed all over the Upper Valley, including sites in Hanover, Lebanon, and White River Junction!
Participants in Josh Yunger’s class produced a large print run from their newly created plates and we’ve hung them on corkboards in unexpected locations, converting the text-heavy advertisement sites into exhibition spaces. Better yet, viewers are invited to bring their favorite prints home to extend the giving.
The above images show a batch of nine prints installed at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, November 2011.
Public Art Projects
In spring 2011 seven participating artists in AVA’s Lino-Cut and A Public Art Project with Josh Yunger, created a series of original greeting cards as the goal.
At the end of the session, the team produced an edition of over 300 cards! Each was paired with an envelope and then compiled into batches of 5 which was tied with a ribbon and given as a gift to all 56 residents of Rogers House, the state-assisted senior housing project one block away from AVA.
Public Art Projects
The New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) awarded a $10K Public Art Grant to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) and AVA for the creation of a public art master plan at DHMC.
The above image is a section of Silhouettes, the first public art project realized as part of Inside&Out, and which features works made by AVA and the Geisel School of Medicine’s Art for Kids program.
Public Art Projects
In summer and fall 2010, AVA partnered with Woodland Scenics to create Miniature Installation in the Field – a project where children, teens, and adults built dioramas for HO-scale model train figures and subsequently photographed them in situ for an entertaining take on reality.
