The Highland Street Foundation Free Fun Fridays are here for 2018! Every Friday there is a batch of museums in Massachusetts which are COMPLETELY FREE TO VISIT! Get on out and explore the culture in your own back yard!
These are the museums which are free on Friday, June 29, 2018.
Lyric Stage Company of Boston • Boston MIT Museum • Cambridge Berkshire Theatre Group • Stockbridge Nantucket Whaling Museum • Nantucket The Mount: Edith Wharton’s Home • Lenox Concord Museum • Concord Worcester Art Museum • Worcester Clark Art Institute • Williamstown Children’s Museum in Easton • Easton Edward Gorey House • Yarmouth Port
The Worcester Art Museum is open from 10-4 this Friday. Would anyone like to go? Let us know!
There are going to be nasty thunderstorms tonight, Thursday, June 28th 2018 exactly in the timeframe of our Milford TV Reception and drop-off. I kept hoping for the weather to slide or change but while it’s milder now they are still forecasting nasty thunderstorms from 5-8pm.
We don’t want anyone having to drive through nasty thunderstorms.
You can drop off your new art for the Milford TV show any time they’re open. Just check with them to see their open hours. Label the back of each artwork with your name, the title, and price (or NFS). You don’t need to register in any other way. Bring as many pieces as you want – it’s free. The theme for this upcoming show is “Summertime”.
This press release is from the Small Stones Festival of the Arts webpage. The Blackstone Valley Art Association is a partner in this project.
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The Small Stones Festival is a collaboration of Apple Tree Arts, the Worcester County Camera Club, and the Blackstone Valley Arts Association. A major part of the festival is a juried exhibition of fine art and fine art photography, to be held in the Great Hall at One Grafton Common.
You are invited to submit your original works of art for this exhibition through this website. A distinguished panel of jurors will review all submitted work, and determine which will be qualified for exhibition. Just prior to the exhibition opening, they will also select prizewinners in the following categories:
Fine Art – First Prize: $500.
Fine Art – Second Prize: $250.
Fine Art – Third Prize: $100.
Fine Art Photography – First Prize: $500.
Fine Art Photography – Second Prize: $250.
Fine Art Photography – Third Prize: $100.
There is a nonrefundable submission fee of $10 per submitted work.
Submission Deadline
Midnight, September 17, 2018 **EXTENDED DEADLINE**
Festival Dates
November 9-11, 2018
Festival Location
Apple Tree Arts
One Grafton Common
Grafton, MA 01519
The Cultural Center of Cape Cod is holding an ONLINE CONTEST ONLY on the theme of “Fauna” where you submit your photos online and the winners are shown online. So there is no in-person component to this art show or contest.
Theme: Wildlife photography aims to capture a one-of-a-kind look at the wonders of the animal kingdom. Embrace the wilderness with animal as the subject in their most powerful, raw, vulnerable, and natural form. Show us FAUNA through your perspective, any and all methods of capture and process are welcome.
You could win a fair amount of cash if you win:
First Place: $500 cash prize
Second Place: $200 cash prize
Third Place: $100 cash prize
Entry deadline: Friday, July 20, 2018 at 11:59pm (mst)
Entry Fee:
$20 for first entry/$5 for each additional entry.
You may enter up to 20 images.
Payment is non-refundable and does not guarantee acceptance.
The 29th Annual Hopedale Day in the Park is on Saturday September 15th, 2018!
The Blackstone Valley Art Association regularly gets a booth at this festival in order to promote our artwork and membership.
In addition, the Hopedale Cultural Council sponsors a HUGE art show at this event, under a big white tent. Many of our members routinely win prizes. Here’s an image from 2017 when our member Libia Goncalves won first prize.
It is WELL worth entering this art festival. It’s a part of a one-day big festival on the Hopedale common with music, food, booths, and all sorts of things. The entry fee is $20.
There are four categories for prize getting:
* watercolors
* oils / acrylics
* photography
* mixed media (pretty much anything else)
Here’s some details for entering.
* ALL ART MUST BE FRAMED AND WIRED.
* ALL SIGNATURES MUST BE COVERED BY CARDSTOCK FOR JUDGING. They’ll remove the cards later on, but when you bring your artwork in the signature MUST be hidden. That way the judging can be reasonably anonymous.
* YOU MUST BE THERE BETWEEN 8-9AM FOR DROPOFF. Then they judge so you can’t be late. If you have a challenge with this, talk with us and we can coordinate with someone who is going in to bring your art in for you.
* THE ART FESTIVAL AND OUR BOOTH ARE TWO SEPARATE THINGS. The art festival is run by the Hopedale Cultural Council and we all enter that show. In addition to that, we also have a booth at the event which we put our own art up in, for free. Our booth is best for smaller quick-purchase items, matted prints, and notecards.
* YOU MUST SEND IN A PAPER FORM TO REGISTER. That has to be received by September 9th 2018. Don’t wait for the last minute on this one. Register early.
Here’s the two pages for the paper registration. Print these out, fill them in, and snail-mail them to their destination.
Ask with any questions! This is well worth entering.
The X Gallery In New Bedford, Massachusetts has a call to art for their show “Relatively Abstract”.
Theme: Abstraction… A departure from reality in depiction of imagery in art. This departure from accurate representation can be slight, partial, or complete.
Deadline: Last day for drop off is Sunday July 1st, 2018 between 11am and 3pm.
Show opens Thursday, July 5th, 2018
Opening reception is Saturday July 7th, 2018 from 5pm to 8pm.
Entry fee:
for non members is $10 each, 3 for $25.
Anything over 3 pieces would be $10 each.
If you’re interested in painting, drawing, and illustrating, we have the perfect Saturday lined up! It’ll be a great time with laughter, conversation, creativity, and the space to stretch out! It’s an open paint! All are welcome, including the public, family, and friends! It’s free!
Our special feature for this Saturday will be CARD CREATION. This will help you prepare for the many summertime festivals. Bring in your 4×6 photos or artwork items. We’ll have the supplies on hand to help you turn those into cards. You can either use the slide-into-frame variety or the glue-on-front variety. We’ll have plastic bags, too. You’ll just pay the base cost for the supplies you use. It ranges between 30 cents to $1 or so per card, depending in you go with the inexpensive or fancy style. We’ll have a range to choose from.
This would be a good time to bring some of your favorite original artwork photos to CVS or Walgreens to get 4×6 prints made of them. You can then use those prints for these cards.
If the weather is nice out, we’ll also do an Uxbridge sketch walk. We have the maps all ready. We just need some sunshine!
Note that there’ll be Yoga in the Gallery from 3pm-4pm. So come for the painting and stay for the yoga! Yoga in the Art Gallery
When:
Saturday, June 30, 2018
10am – 3pm
Where:
BVAA Alternatives Uxbridge Community Gallery
5 South Main Street
Uxbridge, MA 01569
This is an open paint session where all styles of art are warmly welcome. Whether you’re 12 or 102, whether you’re a new beginner or a seasoned artist, we would love to have you. It’s completely free to participate in the open paint. You can bring your own paints or we’ll have watercolors to share.
There is a TON of free parking immediately next to this building. It is fully and easily handicapped accessible.
Feel free to show up for some or all of the day to paint. Some come for just the morning, some for the afternoon, and some for the entire time. There are several options on the same block to grab lunch if you’d like. We also bring in a pizza and those who want slices chip in a few dollars.
Ask with any questions – we’d love to have you join us!
Lisa Shea – Three Ferns CyanotypeThe Blackstone Valley Art Association is featuring a cyanotype show for the months of September and October 2018 at the Worcester Senior Center. All active BVAA members are welcome to participate. The show will be publicized heavily by the Worcester City Hall and there are hundreds of people who move through this gallery space, especially during their events.
Location
Worcester Senior Center
128 Providence St
Worcester, MA 01604
There is ample free parking in a big lot immediately behind the center, off Lapin Street.
Deadline
Please email JPGs of your cyanotypes with approximate sizes to Lisa Shea by midnight Monday, August 20th, 2018 for her to figure out how many pieces from each person we can fit.
About the Show
There are three areas to show art. The main area holds 13 large pieces. The glass case holds 6-8 smaller pieces. The bookcase can hold four long horizontal pieces.
The main area for large artwork is the classic diner, run by the QCC. The aim for these walls would be to have the 13 large artworks all of a similar size for consistency sake. It looks like an external edge size of about 21 inches by 26 inches fits into the spaces. In the first photo you’re looking square-on at the diner main counter. The artwork for our show will be displayed on the left and right, which you can see in the next two images.
We can put five artwork on the left and eight on the right. We cannot move these nails.
I will create labels for each artwork which we will stick to the artwork itself – we can’t put anything on the walls. The label will have the artwork info and then contact info for the artist. All sales go through the artist directly and the artist gets 100% of that sale.
For smaller images, there is a glass case in the main lobby. This pair of images shows you first the glass case within the lobby and then a close-up of the glass case. We should be able to fit 6-8 smaller items on these shelves.
Finally, we have access to the top of the bookshelf. This would be better for images which can be seen from a distance, since people have to look up at them. Maybe the intrepid amongst us could make four mythological creatures from banners of fabric? These could be held up on each end by the types of pole-in-wood-base things that hold table numbers on tables at wedding receptions.
This is an *extremely* rough sketch. My drawing skills are minimal :).
Reception
One of the largest events they have in this building is on Tuesdays and it ends at 11am. Everyone then goes through the diner for lunch and to congregate. They would like for us to have our reception on Tuesday, September 25th from 11am to 1pm to take advantage of this flood of people. It will give us an opportunity to personally meet this crowd and encourage them to look and purchase. We can bring cards and prints to the reception to encourage sales of those smaller items.
Let Lisa Shea know if you’re interested in participating by Monday, August 20th. The hanging will be at the very end of August. The show will be live from September to October, 2018.
