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Tuesday-Saturday 11am-5pm
Thursdays until 7pm
and by appointment

Office Hours:
Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm
Saturday 11am-5pm

(603) 448-3117
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Lebanon, NH 03766

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Flock Dance Troupe

to perform Museum Pieces at AVA!

Thursday, February 9, 2012 

6pm; Free Admission

FLOCK’S founding director, Carol Langstaff, has choreographed a series of dances, called Museum Pieces, inspired by the works of mostly well-known visual artists. The dances, which explore the works of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Gustav Klimt, Edvard Munch, Andrew Wyeth and an anonymous Native-American work, will be performed at AVA Gallery and Art Center at 11 Bank Street in Lebanon, New Hampshire, on Thursday, February 9, 2012. The performance— free and open to the public—begins at 6pm, and will be followed by light refreshments and the opportunity to view AVA’s current exhibitions

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January 13–February 10, 2012

Opening Reception: January 13, 5:00-7:00pm

Free and open to the public.

Please join us!

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Vision Quest IV—Recent Works by Ted Chafee, Steve Chase, and Gidon Staff

The Hale Street Gang: Portraits in Writing

The Hale Street Gang refers to twelve senior citizens who gather once a week to read aloud from their memoirs-in-progress. Curated by Sara Tucker, the exhibition includes photographs by Jack Rowell, audio recordings courtesy of the Vermont Folklife Center, and text panels from the "Gang's" memoirs.

D'Ann Calhoun Fago—A Retrospective

 

Download AVA's Green Building Tour App!

As of December 9, 2011, AVA Gallery and Art Center has what is believed to be the very first application—or “app”— focusing on a “green”  building project, namely the initiatives that were taken in 2006-2007 to make the renovation of AVA’s Carter-Kelsey Building a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold-Certified project.

We proudly invite you to click here and download the Free AVA LEED App to your iTouch, iPhone or iPad.

Special thanks go to Barbara Jones and Eric Richardson for their conceptual and technical development of this project; to Patrick Luteran, 2010 AVA intern and an architecture student, for developing part of the verbiage used in this app; to C. Stuart White, Jr., AIA, for all his professional advice and for the writing of specific segments; to Brandy Zarle and Tim Rush, New York City-based actors who, while performing this fall at Shaker Bridge Theatre in Enfield, New Hampshire, donated their time and expertise to record voice-over for part of the app’s audio; and to the Highfield Foundation for funding this project.

Thanks to the support of Systems Plus Computers, curious visitors can also take the AVA LEED tour on iPods that are available, and can be signed out for loan, from the AVA office.

 

Upcoming AVA Classes and Workshops

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Classes and Workshops Beginning 1/22-1/28

Adults:

1/23 Beginning Glass Fusing

1/24 Evening Beginning Drawing

1/26 Not So Still Life—In Watercolor

1/26 Daytime Beginning Drawing

 

Children & Teens:

No classes or workshops start this week.

 

Classes and Workshops Beginning 1/29-2/4

Adults:

1/30 Abstract Painting

1/31 Evening Oil and Acrylic Painting

2/3 Painting the Winter Landscape in Watercolor

 

Children & Teens:

No classes or workshops start this week.

 

Classes and Workshops Beginning 2/5-2/11

Adults:

2/6 Garden Sculpture: Scale It Up

2/8 Publish Your Own Book

2/11 Researching Art Grants

 

Children & Teens:

No classes or workshops start this week.

 

Classes and Workshops Beginning 2/12-2/18

Adults:

2/18 Printshop Open Studio

 

Children & Teens:

No classes or workshops start this week.

 

Classes and Workshops Beginning 2/19-2/25

Adults:

2/25 Making Archival Digital Prints

 

Children & Teens:

Winter Vacation Art Camps!

2/20 Sleds, Skates, Snowmen and Skis (ages 5-8)

2/20 Animals in Art (ages 5-8)

2/20 Delights of Drawing in Pencil and Pen (ages 9-12)

2/20 Graphic Novels (ages 9-12)

2/20 Oil Painting (teens)

 

Classes and Workshops Beginning 2/26-3/3

Adults:

2/28 Drawing with Color

3/1 Delights of Drawing in Pencil and Pen

3/2 Continuing Watercolor: Landscapes Real and Imagined

3/3 Personal Fossils

3/3 Introduction to Digital Painting

 

Children & Teens:

2/27 Realistic Drawing for Kids

2/28 Art for Preschool Children

2/29 Introduction to Robotics

2/29 Wet and Wild Colors for Children and Caregivers

2/29 Comics for Kids

3/1 Art After School

3/1 Building Smart Objects - Arduino

 

 

Construction has begun on Bank Street. 

Please allow an additional few minutes when coming to AVA, just in case there is a delay...

 

CAOS (Community Arts Open Studio) for Toddlers and Caregivers

AVA Gallery and Art Center is pleased to announce that, as of January 2012, CAOS for Toddlers (CAT) will take place on Friday mornings, from 9:30-11:30, in the Children’s Studio. This new program is made possible thanks to a grant from The Pauline Davenport Children’s Fund of the Vermont Community. 

This program is an extension of AVA’s popular Saturday Community Arts Open Studio (CAOS) and exemplifies AVA’s commitment to making the arts available and accessible to all ages and abilities. 

Unlike the Saturday CAOS, which costs $5 per child, CAOS for Toddlers is free of charge. (Donations are always appreciated.)

Participants may use any of the art supplies available in AVA’s Children’s Studio. Since AVA does not provide studio monitors for this new program, as we do for Saturday CAOS, caregivers must remain with their toddlers. 

CAOS for Toddlers follows the same calendar schedule as our Saturday CAOS; thus, the program for Winter and Spring 2012 is offered through May 18, then starts again in September.

Bring your toddlers and join the fun at AVA’s Community Arts Open Studio for Toddlers!

 

Call for Entries: Hands on Pianos

A Public Art Project!

Free to Enter  •  Deadline: February 20

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, and artists whose proposals are accepted will receive a $120 stipend to cover materials costs.

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!

 

 

AVA's 2012 Summer Art Camps

Now Available Online

AVA’s Summer Art Camps provide unique, formative, and creative experiences for Upper Valley youths. 

Our 2012 program includes weekly morning and afternoon sessions for children ages 5-8, 9-12, and teens beginning June 25-29 and going through August 20-24.

This year's program features Robotics, Pirates, Puppets, Fairies, A Public Art Mural and more!!!  

AVA Members click here for complete camp listings.

Nonmembers click here for complete camp listings.

Please click here for the overview of AVA's Summer Art Camps, including multiple camp enrollment discounts and AVA's early drop-off and late pick-up program.

Scholarships are available. Please click here to learn more about how to apply for a scholarship for your child's art camp experience.

Gift Certificates are available. Please call the AVA office at (603) 448-3117 to learn more.

 

The Hanover Area Chamber of Commerce Honors

AVA Gallery and Art Center with

The 2011 Business Innovator of the Year Award

"AVA, under the dedicated eye and creative mind of Bente Torjusen, has evolved into a critical contributor to the cultural, economic and lifestyle dimensions of the Upper Valley. It has brought disparate people and organizations together to help shape what has been transformed from a tired local art facility to a regional center where people of all ages and experiences can pursue personal interests that continue to elevate the profile of the arts in the Upper Valley. AVA's impact in our region... and beyond... is awe-inspiring."

—Excerpt from the 2011 Hanover Area Chamber of Commerce Business Community Leadership Awards Program

Please click here to see the beautiful two-page feature article from the program.

 
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