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Clinton Massachusetts Olde Home Day 2016
Clinton, Massachusetts is having their 15th annual Olde Home Day on Friday, September 9th and Saturday, September 10th, 2016. This fun festival includes music, art, food, drink, raffle, and much more!
The BVAA is looking to participate in their art show. The festival people will watch over the art for us. We can aim to set things up on Thursday evening and then take it down Saturday afternoon.
Officially the Clinton festivities run from 5-10pm on Friday, September 9th and then 10-4 on Saturday, September 10th. So it’s a fairly early end on Saturday to then take things down and be all set.
The location of the art show is:
Clinton Spanish Seventh-Day Adventist Church at 250 Church Street, Clinton, MA
From the Clinton website:
Registration Fee: $10.00 per piece or $20 for 3-pieces
Note: If you volunteer to watch the art for a few hours you can enter for free.
Set-up: Thurs., Sept 8th, 5:00-7:30pm at Spanish Church
Pick-up: Sat. Sept 10th, at 4:00pm (close of OHD event)
Payment: Make out to “Town of Clinton”
Purchased items MUST remain until close of this activity.
Limited Tables, table top easels and security will be available. A panel of judges from the Apatite Collective will determine prize categories and there will be a “Best of Show”.
Photography, watercolor, pastel, pen/ink etc. should be matted. Olde Home Day is a family event – all entries must be family friendly and entry to show is at the discretion of the coordinator – Laura Taylor.
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Please let us know if you’re interested in participating so we can arrange the right number of panels for our group and coordinate set-up and take-down! If you can’t bring the art up yourself, just get it to Carol F by Wed evening with the entry fee. Let us know if you have any questions!
For each piece you’re submitting to the show, email the following information to thetaylortrio AT hotmail.com – Laura Taylor. Also make sure the back of your art is labelled as well.
Pop-Up Art Show Registration Form
Name: (print)
Address:
City:
State:
Zip:
Phone:
Email:
Medium:
Description (briefly describe your piece):
Who will be picking up your work (we will ask for ID):
Official Website:
Witching Hour: Imagery from Darkness
The PhotoSynthesis gallery in Manchester, Connecticut is having a show themed “Witching Hour: Imagery from Darkness” – the deadline to enter is August 31, 2016. It’s open to any photographic medium.
From their description of the show:
“Historically, the witching hour is that time of night when witches, ghosts, and supernatural beings are thought to be most active. The exact time varies depending on particular beliefs, but is generally considered to be some period of darkness between dusk and dawn. An everyday use of the term might define the witching hour simply as “after dark.”
Whatever one’s beliefs or lack thereof in the supernatural, it is certain that the perception of one’s surroundings at night can be substantially different than the perception of one’s surroundings during the day. Moonlight creates soft shadows; forms merge together; imagination and fear lurk in the darkness. Perhaps fatigue sets in and feeds our mind irrational images—”a trick of the light and too much caffeine,” to borrow a line from the gothic rock band Bauhaus.
We are seeking images, in any photographic medium, that convey interpretations of the witching hour. How do you photograph darkness? Forty to fifty pieces will be chosen by the juror to be exhibited at Gallery 136½.”
Full details and the online entry form:
Happy Birthday to Man Ray
Happy Birthday to Man Ray! He was born on August 27, 1890. He was famous not only for his photography but also for photograms, which is when light-sensitive paper is used without a camera. Man Ray wasn’t satisfied just calling his “photograms” though. He called his works of art “Rayographs” after himself.
He was born Emmanuel Radnitzky in Pennsylvania but in Paris he re-invented himself. He was reborn as a new person.
Here is one of Man Ray’s rayographs. He lived in Paris for most of his life and loved the surrealism freedom. In addition to his wildly abstract works he also created highly acclaimed portrait photos of many of the luminaries of the time – James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and so on.
Man Ray even explored light painting! He would leave his camera exposure open and then move around in front of it with glowing items. He signed his name on one photo.
One of his most famous quotes is:
“There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love. There are simply different ways of doing it.”
Pow! Wow! Worcester Murals 2016
Pow! Wow! is an amazing artistic celebration where beautiful murals add color to a city landscape. In Worcester we’re having a Pow! Wow! Celebration from August 26 through September 4, 2016. There will be ten murals created in ten days!
There are all sorts of events taking place during this time period. There’s a festival kickoff fiesta at Mezcal on the 26th at 8pm. Various artist talks. The big ending Block Party to celebrate will be on Saturday, September 3rd from 3-7pm at the Worcester Common, hosted by Lock 50!
The BVAA is going to have a tent / booth at the Worcester Common. Our plan is to be there at 1pm because the people promoting the huge Kiss concert later that evening in the DCU are actively encouraging everyone to come into Worcester for the day and enjoy the Worcester Common festivities. There will be all sorts of artists, musicians, food, and entertainment. And the weather looks great!
Please let us know if you’re able to participate!
To learn more about Pow! Wow! visit:
Sept 2016 Meeting – Oil Painting with Dustin Neece
Our first meeting of the 2016-2017 year will be a fun one! We’re bringing in talented oil painter Dustin Neece to discuss all sorts of topics. Oil painters can ask questions about oil painting techniques – but that’s just part of it! We can discuss color and composition, layout and balance – things that all artists will find useful.
The meeting is at the Northbridge Senior Center on Tuesday, September 20th from 6:30-9pm. All are welcome.
Come on out and join us!
Address:
20 Highland Street
Whitinsville (Northbridge), MA 01588
Our monthly meetings are always held on the third Tuesday of the month.
Daniel’s Farm Art Show with Claflin Hill 2016
On September 11, 2016, the Blackstone Valley Art Association will once again team up with the fantastic Claflin Hill musicians to create an afternoon of art and music.
The wonderful event will take place at Daniel’s Farm in Blackstone, Massachusetts. It’s in conjunction with a farmer’s market, too! The farmer’s market runs from 11am to 3pm. There’s a grill for fresh food to eat from 11:30 to 2:30pm.
There are even house and grounds tours by docents!
The musical part of the day runs from 3-5pm.
We’re planning on being there from 10am to 5:30pm. Drop off before 10:30 and pick up by 5:30 to be part of the art show. Several of us are going to bring easels and paint. We’ll also have a picnic and get some group photos. Bring some flowers for the table to add ambiance! We’d love farm themes / Blackstone themes for the images but if you don’t have anything that matches bring what you can. Two per person so we all fit. Bin work sells well – bring some of that and bins, if you have any. We’ll share them. It is wholly FREE for BVAA members to participate in this show. Sales have the traditional 20% BVAA commission.
Please let us know if you’re intending on coming so we can plan out the panels! Please use the online submission form to submit your titles and prices – we intend to create labels for this show’s display.
For more information on Daniel’s Farm, including directions:
https://www.danielsfarmstead.org/
Come on out!
Free Fun Friday – Aug 26, 2016
Where did the summer go? It’s the very last Free Fun Friday of 2016, on Friday August 26th. Here are the options:
Franklin Park Zoo, Boston
Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge
Freedom Trail Foundation, Boston
Museum of African American History, Boston & Nantucket
Normal Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge
Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield
Ventforth Hall Mansion, Lenox
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, Brewster
Last year we went to the Franklin Park Zoo on their free fun Friday and it was an absolute MADHOUSE. We also went to Sturbridge Village (they were on separate days last year) and while that was busy, it was manageable. The sunflower photo is from that trip.
What would you like to do this year?
More about the Highland Street Foundation, who funds these free days –
Free Fun Friday – Ecotarium in Worcester
Greetings, everyone!
The votes are in and the Ecotarium in Worcester it is. We’ll meet on Friday 8/19/2016 at 2pm in the main plaza area with the big sundial. There are a number of lovely walking paths with views of a lake, a Japanese pavilion, and more. There are also a variety of animals there to draw or photograph.
To meet up with the group, contact Lisa any time after noon (she sleeps late). Her contact info was sent to all active members via MailChimp.
Entry is wholly FREEEEE thanks to the Free Fun Friday program.
Here’s the Ecotarium’s website with directions and other details:
Weather looks awesome! Come on out and enjoy a relaxing afternoon of creativity and art!
Hopedale Day in the Park 2016
2016 will be Hopedale’s 37th Annual Day in the Park celebration! It all takes place on Saturday, September 17th, 2016.
The BVAA has an informational booth at this day-long festival. All BVAA members are invited to bring in art to hang on our panels. This is an informal art show meant to help visitors learn more about the BVAA. We do get sales and there’s no cost to participate. This is a “pop-up” style event where we bring everything in in the morning, set it up, hang out for the day, and then take it down again.
Official festival times are 10am to 4pm and that means we should be ready for visitors for that period. So we should set up at 9am. Usually it’s quiet by 3:30pm and we can start taking down early to be done by 4pm.
Please let us know if you’re able to participate, how many pieces you’d like to bring, and if you could watch the booth for a period of time. There is no charge to participate in our booth and we do make sales, especially of bin art.
You can bring up to three small works to hang. The hanging items must be properly wired (no saw-toothed hangers). Additionally you can bring as much bin art as you wish. If you have a bin please bring that along! Otherwise we share. The standard BVAA 20% commission applies to sales here, to help cover the cost of the booth. There’s no need to use the online submission form for this, since we aren’t doing labels. Just email us to let us know how many hanging items you’re bringing so we know how many panels to bring.
SEPARATE FROM THAT, Hopedale itself has an art show which is a key part of the Day in the Park Celebration. It is the Hopedale Cultural Council which holds this art show. All submissions to participate in their art show must be done ON PAPER by filling out a form and mailing it in to them. They have to get the form in their hands by September 10, 2016. So plan ahead! They don’t need to see JPGs of the entries or anything like that. You just send them the titles, prices, and so on along with a check. You then show up that morning with the artwork to enter in the show. Again this is a one-day pop-up show under a tent. You bring your artwork in in the morning, it goes on display, it gets judged, prizes are awarded, and you take it home in the evening.
Pickup at the big main art show tent is by 4pm so they expect that tent to be wholly clear by 4pm.
Here’s the entry form!
Hopedale 2016 Day in the Park Art Show Entry Form
For more information on the Hopedale Cultural Council visit here: