Only 13 days until the submission deadline for our 2018 BVAA Spectacular Spring Show! It’s at the Amazing Things gallery – a beautiful venue. Make sure you get your titles in – this will be an Amazing show! Have you submitted yet? 🙂
What are you up to in this snowy weather?
The Blackstone Valley Art Association is presenting its annual BVAA Spectacular Spring Show – this is our sixtieth year! Come on out and celebrate with our spectacular reception!
When:
Thursday, April 5th, 2018
6-8pm
Where:
Amazing Things Gallery
160 Hollis Street
Framingham, MA 01702
Amazing Things Art Center Website
There’ll be music, fun, and lively conversation!
For our BVAA members – bring a snack to share – just how creative can you get? Lisa might bring her ladybug-tomato-on-mozzarella! That is nice and springy!
Make sure to invite your family, friends, neighbors, and even strangers – all are welcome! We all deserve an evening of delightful creativity and inspiration!
Full show details:
Cover image by Libia Goncalves
Explore your creativity! Come join us for an open paint session. Come and go whenever you wish in the 10am to 3pm time period. Bring your own supplies or we’ll have watercolors available for those without. It’s fine to bring a snack if you want. There’s food options right next door, too.
We talk and chat, listen to music.
When:
Saturday March 17rd, 2018
10am – 3pm
Where:
BVAA Alternatives Uxbridge Community Art Gallery
5 South Main Street
Uxbridge, MA 01569
There is a TON of free parking immediately next to this building. It is fully and easily handicapped accessible.
BVAA Alternatives Uxbridge Community Art Gallery Information
This fascinating creative adventure is free and open to the public. If you need brushes and paper it would be helpful if you registered beforehand, but if it’s spur of the moment, that’s fine too.
Ask with any questions! Teens and up are welcome – we warmly welcome beginners!
“Painting is silent poetry,
And poetry is painting that speaks.”
— Plutarch
The Blackstone Valley Art Association Art and Poetry show is a creative combination of the written word and visual images. Each artist gives a poet a work of art that the poet is inspired by. The poet gives the artist a poem which the artist brings to life. Come on out to see the works and enjoy the poetry!
Be sure to come out for our show’s opening reception on Saturday, March 17, 2018 from noon to 2pm. Meet the poets, chat with the artists, and learn more about this fun process!
Where
Blackstone Public Library
86 Main Street
Blackstone, MA
Blackstone Public Library Website
The library is fully handicapped accessible. Our display is on the ground floor.
The library closes at 2pm on Saturday so plan accordingly!
Art Poetry Pairing 2018 – full details
The Blackstone Valley Art Association is proud to celebrate its March 2018 show on the theme of “Massachusetts”! We are showcasing BVAA member photography and paintings on this topic.
In addition, we are also featuring two local teenage artists as well!
Congratulations to Morgann Conley and Ashley Labbe for their beautiful artistic photography! They submitted to our Teen Self Expression component of this show, and we’re proud to have them in our gallery!
Show Dates:
March 8 to March 31, 2018
Opening Reception:
Saturday, March 10th from 4-6pm.
Invite family and friends – all are welcome!
Where:
BVAA Alternatives Uxbridge Community Gallery
5 South Main Street
Uxbridge, MA 01569
There is a TON of free parking immediately next to this building. It is fully and easily handicapped accessible.
BVAA Alternatives Uxbridge Community Art Gallery Information
We look forward to seeing you at the reception!
Image by Mike Zeis
There’s a fine line between abstract and minimalism. Often, abstract can present a minimalist image. Architecture can be minimalism. Even the curve of a throat can be minimalism. Play with minimalism and see how sometimes less can be more.
This is presented in a fun workstation environment. There is a brief introduction and then we move from station to station with our cameras, playing with different ideas and talking with each other about what we’re doing. It’s a fun, collaborative effort.
If you’ve got a cellphone or a camera, bring it along to play. If you don’t, that’s fine! You can watch, learn, and enjoy the experience. All are welcome, and it’s free!
There might be a few painters painting in the gallery while we play. That will be great – we can take photos of their brushes and paints :).
When:
Saturday, March 10th, 2018
1pm – 3pm
Where:
BVAA Alternatives Uxbridge Community Gallery
5 South Main Street
Uxbridge, MA 01569
There is a TON of free parking immediately next to this building. It is fully and easily handicapped accessible. Teens and up are warmly welcome! Beginners are enthusiastically welcome!
BVAA Alternatives Uxbridge Community Art Gallery Information
This fascinating workshop is free. It is open to the public. If you can, please make sure you register beforehand so we know how many to expect. If you have a camera or cellphone, bring it for some hands-on practice.
The instructor for this workshop is:
Lisa Shea
Cover image by Gary Cunningham
Explore your creativity! Come join us for an open paint session. Come and go whenever you wish in the 10am to 3pm time period. Bring your own supplies or we’ll have watercolors available for those without. It’s fine to bring a snack if you want. There’s food options right next door, too.
We talk and chat, listen to music. Note there is a “minimalism” photography workshop from 1-3 but that is a relaxed, station-based workshop where people will be chatting. If the weather is nice they will be outside. The photographers might even take photos of your brushes and things. It’ll be a fun mingling.
When:
Saturday March 3rd, 2018
10am – 3pm
Where:
BVAA Alternatives Uxbridge Community Art Gallery
5 South Main Street
Uxbridge, MA 01569
There is a TON of free parking immediately next to this building. It is fully and easily handicapped accessible.
BVAA Alternatives Uxbridge Community Art Gallery Information
This fascinating creative adventure is free and open to the public. If you need brushes and paper it would be helpful if you registered beforehand, but if it’s spur of the moment, that’s fine too.
Ask with any questions! Teens and up are welcome – we warmly welcome beginners!
It’s coming up! This Friday, March 9th from 4:30 to 7:30pm – it’s the 6th annual 2018 Alternatives Palette Show!
Come on out, meet the artists, and explore the fantastic creativity!
Location:
The Heritage Gallery at Alternatives’ Whitin Mill
50 Douglas Rd
Whitinsville, MA
Show details:
2018 Alternatives Palette Show
Past show details:
2017 Palette Show Photos
2016 Palette Show Photos
2015 Palette Show Photos
2014 Palette Show Photos
The Carol Arnold Critique Session for March 5, 2018 has been CANCELLED – we are postponing to a new date.
Please let us know when you’re available so we can reschedule!
Just one day left!
Get your “After a Fashion” artwork registered so you can participate in this cool latest ArtsWorcester show! Submit by Wednesday, March 7th, 2018!