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Image by Giselle Hunter-Ensor

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!

We have a special treat for those who can come from 10am to noon. Talented BVAA member Giselle Hunter-Ensor will be on hand to show how she creates her beautiful trees! You can watch her paint, and follow her lead, or paint whatever you wish. It’s open! It’s creative!

When:
Saturday, March 31st, 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.

BVAA Alternatives Uxbridge Community Art Gallery Information

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.

Note that there’ll also be a Holga photography class during the afternoon here. Not to worry, the class is quite casual and there will be no problem at all to have the painters and the class in the same space! We’ll encourage each other in our creativity!

Ask with any questions – we’d love to have you join us!

Image by Don Iacovelli

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!

Shall we do a Don Iacovelli theme? Painting local scenes with happy community members enjoying their town? I’ll give it a try! You’re welcome to join me or to do whatever interests you. Don’s paintings always sell out so he’s definitely onto something with this theme :).

When:
Saturday, March 24th, 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.

BVAA Alternatives Uxbridge Community Art Gallery Information

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.

Note that there’ll also be a Holga photography class during the afternoon here. Not to worry, the class is quite casual and there will be no problem at all to have the painters and the class in the same space! We’ll encourage each other in our creativity!

Ask with any questions – we’d love to have you join us!

Image by Dennis Smith

In the spirit of Reddit’s “Ask Me Anything” we are holding an editing challenge where we will edit any picture you bring in. Have a landscape that doesn’t pop? A portrait that looks green? A room interior where the walls tip crazy? Bring ’em on.

This event is FREE and open to the public! All are welcome!

When:
Saturday, April 21st, 2018
9am – noon

Where:
BVAA Alternatives Uxbridge Community Gallery
5 South Main Street
Uxbridge, MA 01569

Dennis Smith will edit your Pictures in Lightroom. Anything is fair game and he will do his best to fix any faults and make it look great. If there are not enough attendees’ photos, Dennis will bring some of his most awful shots and demo how to make them sing. Or at least hum.

Dennis will be editing on his computer in Lightroom with perhaps a short side trip to Photoshop or Silver Efex Pro. His screen will be projected so everyone can see the down and dirty.

To participate, just show up with your soon-to be-bettered pictures on a USB key or on a SDHC photo card.

This should be fun and educational, and you’ll be able to take home your edited image.

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

Here’s more details about Dennis Smith:

https://www.facebook.com/DenSmithCreative/

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?

2018 BVAA Spectacular Spring Show

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:

Spectacular Spring Show at the Amazing Things Gallery

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!

BVAA Online Registration Form

“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.

BVAA Online Registration Form

The instructor for this workshop is:
Lisa Shea