ArtReach

Roger Buttles is a NH-based artist and curator. He will be showing the process behind his evocative and deeply personal paintings that incorporate pastel, graphite, hand-dyed fabrics and other materials. Often working on large-scale paper, the artist focuses on ideas of impermanence channeled through personal narratives and familiar landscapes. Buttles will be doing a demonstration in pastel and mixed media. The studio visit and demo will be live from the artist's studio. 

Join us in an interactive exhibition tour of the current exhibitions at AVA, with commentary from exhibitions manager Sam Eckert on the artists’ work. The tour includes three solo exhibitions currently on view at AVA.

Join us in a foundational painting lesson exploring the "block-in". The demo will focus specifically on starting and engaging initial shapes in a painting, and outline methods of developing a painting from blocks of color to a more developed image.