Out of the Dark

Lisa is donating her art installation “Child’s Play” to benefit our local Worcester battered women’s shelter.

Please consider donating to help the cause! Full details about “Out of the Dark” –

https://www.facebook.com/events/163558510651391/

If you’re not on Facebook, here is the gist of the details from that page:

An art show fundraiser with the proceeds going to artists and the “Abby’s House” shelter project.

Abby’s House is a multi-service organization assisting homeless and battered women and their children. With this art event, “Out of the Dark”, we are working to support local artists and the organization’s work with homelessness and mental health by aligning the theme of the show with the mission of Abby’s House. Artists are welcome to fully donate their artwork, or at least a required minimum of 50% of each sale will be donated, to Abby’s House in Worcester.

To find out more about Abby’s House, visit: https://www.abbyshouse.org/

To get involved, please email ablankenship AT clarku.edu

Reception: Saturday, November 21at 4:30pm – 8:30pm
Higgins University Center- Clark University
Worcester, Massachusetts 01610

Serene Art Show – Uber Cafe

The Uber Cafe show for the month of November is “Serene” – featuring Carol Frieswick, Dot Downing, and Beverly Tinklenberg.

Here are images from that show!

Here’s the Uber Cafe’s website –

https://www.ubercafe.net/

Be sure to plan a visit to see them! They’re in Mendon.

More show photos from “Serene” –

https://bvaa.org/past-events/past-events-2015/past-events-2015-serene-uber-cafe-show-nov/

 

November 2015 Meeting – Randy LeSage

Our November 2015 meeting will be on Tuesday, November 17th from 6:30-9pm at the Northbridge Senior Center. Our featured artist for this meeting is the talented Randy LeSage! He’ll be doing demos of image transfer and other interesting techniques.

Here’s Randy’s bio from the Worcester Art Museum website –

Randy LeSage
Framingham State College, BA; Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, MFA

Randy LeSage enjoys teaching in various media including Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, and Mixed Media with beginner to advanced adult students. He’s been teaching at WAM for over 20 years. He’s also taught at various institutions since 1982, including Framingham State College, Clark University, Worcester State College, the Danforth Museum in Framingham. He’s also a librarian at the Goodnow Library in Sudbury. He values the written word as well as a wide range of exploration to inform one’s creativity. Randy enjoys creating in various visual media and also enjoys writing and going outdoors to draw and paint. While appreciative of various ways to make art, he considers the use of and hand and eye coordination in artmaking a vital aspect.

Here’s a link to a YouTube video:

Randy LeSage on YouTube

All BVAA members are welcome to attend!

Claflin Hill Symphony Orchestra – Rogues, Rascals and Rapscallions

The BVAA, in conjunction with the Claflin Hill Symphony Orchestra, is offering a fun night of art and music! The orchestra provides the music while the BVAA provides the art!

On Saturday, November 14th from 7:30-10pm the Claflin Hill Symphony Orchestra will be performing a show. The BVAA will have art up for patrons to enjoy before the show and during intermission.

Anne McNevin is organizing the art for this show. Deadline to submit your titles and sizes via the online form is Monday, November 9th. This gives Anne time to determine how many panels will be needed. There’s no fee to participate.

BVAA Online Submission Form

Drop-Off for the show will be Thursday, November 12th and Friday, November 13th from 5-7pm. Everything will then be set up Friday night so it’s ready to go for Saturday. Pick-up will be Sunday morning from 8-10am. If you can’t make that, email Anne to make other arrangements.

The music being performed on Sat the 14th will be themed along “Rogues, Rascals, and Rapscallions” – including Billy the Kid by Copeland and Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks by Strauss. We should aim to bring the best art in our libraries, to match the high quality of the performance. That being said, if you have two great pieces and one features a roguish character (let’s say Captain Jack Sparrow) then that might be a perfect one to choose!

Here’s the official Claflin Hill page with all details on the concert –

https://www.claflinhill.com/symphony-series/2015/8/30/rogues-rascals-rapscallions

If you prefer a PDF version of this information for easy printing, click here –

Rogues Art Show Info (PDF)

UPDATE: DROPOFF DETAILS:

Delivery to Town Hall is this Thursday 11/12/2015 and Friday 11/13/2015 from 5:00 – 7:00. To get to to Milford Town Hall, 52 Main Street from Millbury take 140 S for around 10 miles. Take a slight left on West Street, which becomes Exchange Street. Turn left onto Main Street/MA-16 for about 2 1/2 miles. It’s a tall white steepled building very hard to miss. There are parking lots on either side of the bldg. as well as street parking.

You may enter by the side entrance where the handicapped ramp is, go in via the ramp and basement entrance and use the elevator to go to the second floor. I will have signs up around the building indicating where these are.