It’s Friday the 13th, 2020! The Coronavirus is impeding the ability of some to share artwork in a communal space.
We’d love to see what you’ve been making at home!
Just leave a comment to this post and let us know what you’re working on. Share a note about your work-in-progress! To let us see photos, share a link to your Instagram page or wherever else you’re posting images!
We’d love to cheer you on!
FREE Virtual Online Art Lessons!
Saturday March 21, 2020
In the morning from 10-1 Lisa will do an online demo of Gelli Plates with her new tripod so it’s steady :). You can paint along in the Gelli style, or paint whatever you want to paint and just chat while we work. It’ll be relaxing and lovely!
From 1-3 talented artist Laura O. Cenedella will do a live painting session, showing you how to paint this lighthouse with oil paints! You’ll get to see her at-home studio and ask questions! It’ll take place on her Facebook page.
Laura’s Supply List:
M.GRAHAM&Co. Artist Oil Color and Acrylic Artist Color or Comparable
White, Yellow Ochre, Red, Blue
· Grey Pad Disposable Paper Palette
· Impasto Mediums/ Walnut oil/ drying medium
· Mineral spirits/Water
· Paper towels
· Brushes for Oil or Acrylic Painting
· A can or jar for mineral spirits/water
· A palette knife for mixing or for cleaning your palette
· A bag for trash
· A clip to clip your trash bag to your easel or tripod
· An easel or paint box
· Canvas Artist Board or Paper
Anything else you may be comfortable to use.
Join us for a day of fun and creativity!
Morning Session Location:
https://www.facebook.com/BVArtAssoc/Afternoon Session Location with Laura Cenedella:
https://www.facebook.com/Laura-O-Cenedella-269143975260
The March Monthly Meeting including the demo with talented watercolor painter Ray Andreotti has been POSTPONED.
Originally it was to be held Tuesday, March 17th at 6:30pm.
Due to Coronavirus concerns we are postponing this meeting.
THERE WILL BE NO IN PERSON MEETING ON TUE 3/17/2020.
We will look into doing a virtual meeting where people can paint or sketch from home and chat virtually while we do it.
We’ll let you know when we reschedule this.
Thank you for your understanding!
COVID-19 ALERT
Due to the current health situation with the COVID-19 / Coronavirus in Massachusetts, we will *** NOT *** be holding our open paint at the Uxbridge Gallery on Saturday, March 14th, 2020.
The gallery space will be open so that those artists who need to pick up photo-show artworks can stop in to retrieve them.
Contact info@bvaa.org with any questions or to coordinate with Lisa about when you will stop by.
Be Healthy!
Our gallery and events are supported by the local cultural councils, Open Sky, and ValleyCAST.
Open Critique Session
Since February can sometimes be snowed out, we use this month for a session which is casual. We all bring in our latest works or images and then offer each other suggestions and advice. You can bring the works in in person or bring JPG images on a thumb drive for us to view on a laptop. You can bring in paintings, drawings, or sculptures. Whatever you wish! It’ll be fun, relaxed, and conversational.
Our February 2020 monthly meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 18th from 6:30-9pm.
Location:
BVAA Open Sky Uxbridge Community Gallery
5 South Main Street
Uxbridge, MA 01569
This meeting and workshop is free and open to the public. No experience is necessary. The fun of our workshops is that we all try new things we’ve never done before.
Our meetings cover BVAA organization business from 6:30-7:00pm and then go into the workshop part of the evening. Feel free to come for whichever half interests you the most. In general, our monthly meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month unless otherwise announced.
All are welcome – this workshop is open to members and non-members. Feel free to bring along a friend! We’d love to see you there to try some new things and explore your creativity!
Ask with any questions!
This Uxbridge gallery is supported in part by BVAA member dues, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and by ValleyCAST. The space use is kindly donated to us by ValleyCast, the community outreach department of Open Sky Community Services. Open Sky uses this space for special-needs client activities during daytime weekdays. They allow the BVAA use of the space – and its gallery walls – on evenings and weekends. We actively support their inclusive mission. All are welcome to all of our events and activities!
The Choco l’Art fun BVAA art show is now live at the Whitinsville Library! This is a PEOPLE’S CHOICE award – please stop by and vote! Your vote determines the winner! Share the news with family and friends!
FREE fun chocolate reception this Saturday 2/15 from 10am-2pm all warmly welcome!
The Spring Bull Gallery is a delightful gallery in Newport. Rhode Island. Many of our BVAA members have participated in shows there.
In February 2020 they have an open call to artists for their upcoming show “Favorite Views and Places”.
THE DEADLINE TO SUBMIT IS WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 26 2020.
Exhibition: March 7 – April 18, 2020
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 7, 2020 5:00-7:00 pm
Here are the details for this show. Contact the Spring Bull Gallery with any questions!
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Show off your favorite places to play or to party,
to rest or to ramble, or to contemplate the beauty of nature …
EXHIBIT DATES: March 7 – April 18, 2020
OPENING RECEPTION: March 7, 2020 5:00-7:00 pm
GALLERY NIGHTS: March 13, 2020 and April 9, 2020 5:00-8:00 pm
JURY FOR ENTRY:
Submission for “Favorite Views & Places” must be completed online via Smarter Entry
Submission Start Date: Sunday, February 16, 2020 12:00:00 AM (EST)
Submission End Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 11:59:00 PM (EST)
Acceptance Notification Date: February 28, 2020
Juror’s Awards will be announced at the Opening.
DROP OFF DATES FOR ACCEPTED WORKS*:
Saturday, February 29th, Sunday March 1st,
Wednesday March 4th and Thursday, March 5th
12:00 to 4:30 pm
PICK UP DATES: Sunday, April 19th – Wednesday April 22nd 12:00 – 4:30 pm
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS*
• Please Note above drop off and pick up dates – no exceptions without prior approval from Spring Bull Gallery. If you plan to ship the entry, please call the gallery for shipping instructions.
• Exhibitors may submit up to three original works in any medium
(excluding photography, laser prints, or computer generated)
• Size not to exceed 175” overall perimeter including frame.
• Artwork must be professionally presented, ready to hang with proper wiring, name of artist, and title of work marked on back. [no sawtooth hangers, clip-on, scratched or damaged frames accepted]
• Framed works on paper must be under glass or acrylic glazing
• White or off-white mats are highly recommended
• Works on stretcher bars must be properly stretched and wired for hanging
• Framing is optional for gallery wrapped or cradled panels
• All entries must be for sale and will remain on exhibit until the show closing date
FEES
1 Entry $25, $15 for each additional entry
Payment is made at the time of submission through Smarter Entry
Gallery sales commission is 35% for each work sold.
PLEASE NOTE: Artworks are not insured by SBG. Artists should maintain their own insurance while work is on SBG premises. Although we take the utmost care of all works submitted, SBG is not responsible for any damage incurred after drop off. All packing material must be taken away by the artist upon drop off. SBG retains the right to reproduce images of your work for publicity for the exhibition.
*Your entry in this exhibition constitutes agreement with the above terms.
To help promote attendance, SBG provides announcement cards at the time of drop-off for personal distribution to friends and fans.
Follow us on Facebook and Instagram (#springbullgallery).
You might see one of your entries for this exhibit posted there.
We look forward to your participation and welcome your support of Spring Bull Gallery.
CANCELLED!!
Carol Arnold’s oil painting class for tonight Feb 3rd has been CANCELLED!
Please mark your calendar for her March class on Monday March 2nd!
Contact Carol directly for more details.
This is not a BVAA show, but many of us have had art in the Morini Gallery in the past. It’s a great location and well worth submitting to. This is a juried-in show, meaning you submit JPGs to them to evaluate. If you’re chosen for the show, you then drive your artwork down to them.
In the Zone Call for Artists
The Morini Gallery at MMAS is committed to supporting our local artists.
The Morini Gallery at Mass Music and Art Society (MMAS) is seeking submissions for its upcoming jury selected exhibition “In the Zone”. Artists are encouraged to submit works in all mediums 2D including photography. Images should not exceed 48” in any direction including frame.
In the words of Emily Hill, the journalist, being “in the zone” is delicious, immersive, and kinda trippy. Time collapses. Sound falls away. Suddenly we look up, and it’s 4 a.m.. This tunnel-vision phenomenon is reported by athletes, creatives, and psychologists alike as a hyper-focused, sometimes spiritual, state of mind where anything is possible. It’s where we become our most productive, creative, and powerful selves.
Take a moment to recall that feeling and show us examples of when you truly felt you were…..
“In the Zone”.
Artists may enter up to five (5) images.
Show dates: March 27th – June 21, 2020
Submission Deadline: February 26, 2020
Notification of work(s) accepted: March 9, 2020, Accepted artists will be listed on the gallery website.
Drop off dates: March 23rd and 24th, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Artists Reception: Saturday, March 28th, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Pick up dates: June 24th and 25th 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
SUBMIT https://www.jotform.com/build/200203468047144
About the juror:
Denise Driscoll
Denise Driscoll is an abstract painter whose large-scale acrylic paintings involve extensive time “in the zone”. She has instigated, organized, or juried exhibits including “Material Meditation” at the New Art Center, “Multiplicity” at Fountain Street Gallery, “Iteration” at Gallery 263, and the “Storefront Art Project” for Lesley University. Her work has been shown throughout New England and her paintings are widely collected. Driscoll earned her MFA in Visual Art at Lesley Art + Design, where she currently teaches. She maintains a studio at Norwood Space Center, lives in Framingham, and is represented by Fountain Street Gallery.
Thank you so much to Judith Potter for taking these photos for us!
This was a free BVAA Pastel Class -it was an awesome time with a great group of talented and fun people!!!
Instructor: Ella Delyanis.
Thank you to the Massachusetts Cultural Council and Uxbridge / Northbridge Cultural Councils for funding our demos so most of them can be discount rate or free.
