Past Events
Workshop: Artist Legacies – What Are They and What To Do with Them?
Date November 20, 2025Time 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmTicket Free
Fundraising Event | An Evening of the Senses
Date November 14, 2025Time 6:00 pm - 8:30 pmTicket $35.00
An Evening of Visual Storytelling
Date November 12, 2025Time 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Join Us for an Exploratory Book Group Meeting (art texts)
Date November 6, 2025Time 3:30 am - 5:00 pm
Learning to Look | Main Galleries Workshop
Date October 29, 2025Time 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
A Gathering of Pumpkins
Date October 28, 2025Time 5:30 pm - 7:30 pmTicket Free
Conversations | Artist talks: Patrick Dunfey and Esmé Thompson
Date October 17, 2025Time 5:30 pm - 6:30 pmSponsor: Duke’s Art and Frame Shop, Geokon
Opening Reception, Friday, October 10, 5-7 PM
Date October 10, 2025Time 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmSponsor: Duke’s Art and Frame Shop, Geokon
Patrick Dunfey | New Paintings
Date Oct 10 - Nov 15, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pmSponsor: Duke’s Art and Frame Shop, Geokon
Barbara Garber | Shadows and Leftovers
Date Oct 10 - Nov 15, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pmSponsor: Duke’s Art and Frame Shop, Geokon
Alexander Pope | Volumes and Vortices: Organic Improvisations
Date Oct 10 - Nov 15, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pmSponsor: Duke’s Art and Frame Shop, Geokon
Esmé Thompson | Recent Paintings
Date Oct 10 - Nov 15, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pmSponsor: Duke’s Art and Frame Shop, Geokon
Don Williams | Constructed and Assembled
Date Oct 10 - Nov 15, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pmSponsor: Duke’s Art and Frame Shop, Geokon
Bank Street Gallery | Shannon Bender: Capturing the Upper Valley
Date Oct 10 - Nov 16, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Gallery 3 @ AVA | Still Life – Paintings by Stephanie Katz
Date Oct 8 - 31, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 am
Discourse | AVA Faculty and Staff Exhibition
Date Sep 26 - Nov 15, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pmSponsor: Goss Logan Insurance
Gelli Printing | Makers Workshop
Date September 20, 2025Time 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The Mudroom | Theme: Best Friends
Date September 11, 2025Time 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Conversations | Exhibiting Artist Demonstration/Talk: Cierra Vigue
Date September 5, 2025Time 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Upper Valley Photographers 3rd Annual Open Call Exhibition
Date Sep 5 - Oct 3, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
AVA Dance Party Summer Sizzler
Date August 23, 2025Time 7:30 pm - 10:00 pmTicket $50.00
Opening Reception: August 22, 5-7 PM | Misoo Bang, Mike Howat, Cierra Vigue, Corrine Yonce
Date August 22, 2025Time 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Misoo Bang | 전미개오 轉迷開悟: Buddhist Teaching of Being Freed of Anguish and Reaching Nirvana
Date Aug 22 - Sep 27, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Mike Howat | Home, Disassembled
Date Aug 22 - Sep 27, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Cierra Vigue | When Time Bloomed
Date Aug 22 - Sep 27, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Corrine Yonce | Longing is Just Our Word for Knowing
Date Aug 22 - Sep 27, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Bank Street Gallery | PW Stephenson: Of Clouds & Peaks
Date Aug 8 - Sep 26, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Winkie Kelsey | A Benefit Exhibition for AVA
Date Jul 25 - Sep 20, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Canopy Exhibition Workshop | Making Collage and Gelli Prints
Date July 12, 2025Time 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Dan Falby, Sarah Koff, Susan Lirakis, Jonathan Rose | 2024 Juried Winners
Date Jul 11 - Aug 9, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Dan Falby | Tear in the Fabric
Date Jul 11 - Aug 9, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Susan Lirakis | Past & Future Memory
Date Jul 11 - Aug 9, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Jonathan Rose | A Song for Lily
Date Jul 11 - Aug 9, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sarah Koff | Object Permanence
Date Jul 11 - Aug 9, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Bank Street Gallery | Sue Schiller: New Dimensions
Date Jun 20 - Jul 25, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Conversations | Sher Kamman and Jack Morris
Date June 13, 2025Time 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
The Mudroom: Why or Why Not?
Date June 12, 2025Time 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
UVP Monthly Meeting with Guest Speaker Ian Clark
Date June 10, 2025Time 6:30 pm - 8:00 pmTicket Free
NH Gives Pizza Pop Up
Date June 10, 2025Time 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Conversations | Artist Talk with Don Collins
Date June 6, 2025Time 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Artist Demonstration | Encaustic Painting with Stephanie Gordon
Date May 31, 2025Time 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Annual Yart (Yard) Sale
Date May 31, 2025Time 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Opening Reception: Understory | Bend to Earth | Water Marks
Date May 23, 2025Time 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmTicket Free
Understory | Don Collins, Stephanie Gordon, Marcie Scudder, Ann Steuernagel
Date May 23 - Jun 28, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sher Kamman and Jack Morris | Bend to the Earth
Date May 23 - Jun 28, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Meg McLean | Water Marks
Date May 23 - Jun 28, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Conversations | Visiting Artists Veronika Yadukha and Lethokuhle Msimang
Date May 16, 2025Time 5:30 pm - 6:30 pmTicket Free
Canopy | a group exhibition supporting mental health awareness
Date May 9 - Jul 12, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pmSponsor: The Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation, The Couch Family Foundation, Lucky’s Coffee Garage, Mascoma Bank, M&T Bank, Mt. Roeschmore Foundation, The Richards Group
Conversations | Heidi Broner and Chris Papa
Date April 19, 2025Time 2:00 pm - 3:30 pmSponsor: Goss Logan Insurance
Bank Street Gallery | Steve Chase: A Singular Vision
Date Apr 14 - Jun 6, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Conversations | Cynthia Atwood and Mark Lorah
Date April 5, 2025Time 2:00 pm - 3:30 pmSponsor: Goss Logan Insurance
Cynthia Atwood & Mark Lorah | Heidi Broner | Chris Papa
Date Apr 4 - May 10, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pmSponsor: Goss Logan Insurance
Shape/Shift: Objects and Non-Objectives
Date Mar 14 - Apr 26, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pmSponsor: Goss Logan Insurance
The Mudroom: Cringe Worthy
Date March 13, 2025Time 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
SCAFFOLDING: Artist Workshop with Sue Schlabach
Date March 8, 2025Time 10:00 am - 3:00 pmSponsor: R.C. Brayshaw & Company, LLC, Trumbull-Nelson
Bank Street Gallery | Holle Black: Tell the Bees
Date Feb 21 - Apr 11, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
17th Annual Regional High School Exhibition
Date Feb 21 - Mar 21, 2025Time 12:00 am - 11:59 pmSponsor: Mascoma Bank, Blackberry Hill Art Center, Orford, NH
SCAFFOLDING: Artist Workshop with Elan Cadiz
Date January 25, 2025Time 11:00 am - 12:00 pmSponsor: Trumbull-Nelson, R.C. Brayshaw & Company, LLC
SCAFFOLDING: Group Exhibition
Date Jan 17 - Mar 1, 2025Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pmSponsor: Trumbull-Nelson, R.C. Brayshaw & Company, LLC
The Mudroom: Too Much
Date December 12, 2024Time 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Open House and Holiday Exhibition Party
Date December 7, 2024Time 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
2024 AVA Members Holiday Exhibition and Sale
Date Nov 29 - Dec 26, 2024Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Opening Reception: Wanderings, UnNatural Light, & Resonant Visions
Date October 18, 2024Time 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmSponsor: Caldwell Law
Wanderings | Arista Alanis and James Secor
Date Oct 18 - Nov 16, 2024Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pmSponsor: Caldwell Law
UnNatural Light | Dominique Gustin
Date Oct 18 - Nov 16, 2024Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pmSponsor: Caldwell Law
Resonant Visions | Rich Fedorchak and Peter Thomashow
Date Oct 18 - Nov 16, 2024Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pmSponsor: Caldwell Law
My Voice, My Story
Date Oct 11 - Nov 9, 2024Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Creativity Workshop
Date October 5, 2024Time 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Inspire Your Creative Practice – Finding Wonder through Bewilderment: Class + Reading
Date October 5, 2024Time 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Conversations: Janie Cohen and Cameron Davis
Date September 26, 2024Time 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
AVA’s Annual Meeting 2024
Date September 24, 2024Time 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Contemporary Allegory: Christel Wolfaardt
Date Sep 14 - Nov 1, 2024Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
The Mudroom: Holding On/Hanging Up
Date September 12, 2024Time 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Janie Cohen | Clothwork Assemblage
Date Sep 6 - Oct 5, 2024Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Jennifer McCandless | Life Among the Animals
Date Sep 6 - Oct 5, 2024Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Cameron Davis | Magnolia’s Desire
Date Sep 6 - Oct 5, 2024Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Upper Valley Photographers Third Floor Open Call 2024
Date Sep 6 - 29, 2024Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
between water and sun | group exhibition
Date Aug 24 - Oct 5, 2024Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Samuel Neustadt: Special Event with DH Children’s Guests
Date August 16, 2024Time 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmSponsor: White Mountains Insurance Group, LTD
10X10=AVA Bidding Party
Date August 10, 2024Time 4:00 pm - 6:30 pmSponsor: Trumbull-Nelson
AVA’s Open House
Date August 10, 2024Time 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Conversation with the Artists: Forces of Nature
Date July 27, 2024Time 3:00 pm - 4:30 pmSponsor: White Mountains Insurance Group, LTD
Forces of Nature
Date Jul 26 - Aug 24, 2024Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pmSponsor: White Mountains Insurance Group, LTD
Samuel Neustadt | Across the Road
Date Jul 26 - Aug 24, 2024Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pmSponsor: White Mountains Insurance Group, LTD
Erika Lawlor Schmidt | Of Earth and Astral Plane
Date Jul 26 - Aug 24, 2024Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pmSponsor: White Mountains Insurance Group, LTD
Axel Stohlberg | The Architecture of Dreams
Date Jul 26 - Aug 24, 2024Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pmSponsor: White Mountains Insurance Group, LTD
Reflections On Nature: Ann Semprebon
Date Jul 26 - Sep 13, 2024Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
10X10=AVA Silent Auction Exhibition
Date Jul 12 - Aug 10, 2024Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pmSponsor: Trumbull-Nelson
2024 Juried Exhibition
Date Jun 21 - Jul 13, 2024Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pmSponsor: Goss Logan Insurance, Mayor + Kennedy Architects
2024 Juried Exhibition Awardees
Date Jun 21 - Jul 13, 2024Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pmSponsor: Goss Logan Insurance, Mayor + Kennedy Architects
The Mudroom: Mixed Messages
Date June 13, 2024Time 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Annual Yart (Yard) Sale
Date June 8, 2024Time 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Climate Retrospective: Elizabeth D’Amico
Date May 31 - Jul 19, 2024Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Panel Discussion: Peter Anderson, Caleb Brown, and Joan Hanley
Date May 16, 2024Time 5:30 pm - 6:30 pmSponsor: Geokon
Opening Reception: Peter Anderson | Caleb Brown | Joan Hanley | Denis Versweyveld
Date May 10, 2024Time 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmSponsor: Geokon
Mapping Memories of Place and Space: Peter Anderson and Caleb Brown
Date May 10 - Jun 8, 2024Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pmSponsor: Geokon
Joan Hanley | The Vegetative Soul
Date May 10 - Jun 8, 2024Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pmSponsor: Geokon
Denis Versweyveld | Stilleven
Date May 10 - Jun 8, 2024Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pmSponsor: Geokon
the lift of blue | an exhibition supporting mental health awareness
Date May 3 - Jun 29, 2024Time 11:00 am - 5:00 pmSponsor: West Central Behavioral Health, Anonymous, The Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation, Mt. Roeschmore Foundation, The Richards Group, The Williamson Group Sotheby’s International Realty
Illumination: Exhibition and Auction Event
Date April 27, 2024Time 6:00 pm - 9:00 pmSponsor: Copeland Furniture Factory Outlet, Von Bargen’s, Dutille’s Jewelry Design Studio