It’s time to celebrate! The Blackstone Valley Art Association’s Grafton Common Art Gallery opens TODAY, November 1st, 2017!
We’re open from noon to 6pm today. Come on out and explore our gallery!
Here’s a virtual tour –
Come early to get your favorite pieces!
Full details about the gallery:
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO TUESDAY NOVEMBER 28th!! GET THOSE ENTRIES IN!!
The BVAA, in conjunction with Alternatives organization, is celebrating the 17th year of the Tapestry Art show! Tapestry refers to the weaving of all members of our community together. The art itself can be any format – watercolor, sculpture, acrylic painting, photography, oil painting, fabric arts, and so on. It can be on any theme.
Alternatives Community Gallery
5 South Main Street
Uxbridge, MA
The show is a centerpiece of the annual Uxbridge First Night celebration. In 2017 that takes place on Saturday, December 2nd.
Submissions
Deadline to submit your titles and sizes via the PDF printed form is Saturday, November 11th. Note that this show does NOT use our online submission form. They prefer a printed form for the Tapestry show. Print this out and fill it in!
It is FREE to participate in Tapestry. If your item sells, 25% of the fee goes to support the Tapestry show.
You can bring your PDF form in with you when you bring in the artwork. All artwork brought in will be hung (as long as it is family friendly, etc.). You can choose one piece out of the up to three you bring in to be judged.
Note on Judging: The Tapestry show is an Alternatives show, not a BVAA show, so it’s fine to enter works here that have already been judged in another BVAA show.
Drop-Off
Drop-Off for the show will be up through Saturday, November 11th. If you bring in items after November 11th they might still be able to be added to the show but they cannot be judged at that point.
NOTE ON DROPOFF: Typically this gallery’s drop off times are 8:30am to 9am, 11:20 to 12:30pm, and 2:30 to 3:30pm M-F. If someone wants to drop off on that very last day, Saturday, November 11th, please call first to set up a time.
Public Viewing
The main viewing for this show is on Uxbridge First Night on Saturday, December 2nd from 4-7pm. This is a huge event with music, events, shops, and much more. Be sure to come out!
Pick-Up
Pick-up for this show is from December 29th through January 5th.
Ask with any questions! All are welcome to participate, whether they are BVAA members or not!
Celebrate Small Shop Saturday with an intimate demonstration of the beauty of colored pencils!
Come watch Bonnie Frederico showcase how painting with colored pencils works. You can ask her questions. Explore her technique. Get ideas for your own artwork, or just enjoy watching an artist at work.
Where?
One Grafton Common
Suite 123
Grafton, MA
It’s the building with the AppleTree Arts in it!
When?
Saturday, November 25th, 2017
11am – noon
All are welcome! Share the news with family and friends!
For more about the Grafton Common Art Gallery, visit:
To see more of Bonnie’s beautiful paintings, visit her website here:
Oil painting has a stunning history. Leonardo da Vinci. Claude Monet. John Singer Sargent. Caravaggio. There’s just something about the luster of oil. Its ability to capture light. The details of a face.
Come watch Carol Arnold showcase how oil painting works. You can ask her questions. Explore her technique. Get ideas for your own painting, or just enjoy watching an artist at work.
Where?
One Grafton Common
Suite 123
Grafton, MA
It’s the building with the AppleTree Arts in it!
When?
Friday, December 1st
6pm – 8pm
All are welcome! Share the news with family and friends!
For more about the Grafton Common Art Gallery, visit:
To see more of Carol’s beautiful paintings, visit her website here:
https://carolarnoldfineart.com
Here are another few examples of her work:
Oil painting has a stunning history. Leonardo da Vinci. Claude Monet. John Singer Sargent. Caravaggio. There’s just something about the luster of oil. Its ability to capture light. The details of a face.
Come watch Carol Arnold showcase how oil painting works. You can ask her questions. Explore her technique. Get ideas for your own painting, or just enjoy watching an artist at work.
Where?
One Grafton Common
Suite 123
Grafton, MA
It’s the building with the AppleTree Arts in it!
When?
Tuesday, November 28th
5:30pm – 8pm
All are welcome! Share the news with family and friends!
For more about the Grafton Common Art Gallery, visit:
To see more of Carol’s beautiful paintings, visit her website here:
https://carolarnoldfineart.com
Here are another few examples of her work:
Oil painting has a stunning history. Leonardo da Vinci. Claude Monet. John Singer Sargent. Caravaggio. There’s just something about the luster of oil. Its ability to capture light. The details of a face.
Come watch Carol Arnold showcase how oil painting works. You can ask her questions. Explore her technique. Get ideas for your own painting, or just enjoy watching an artist at work.
Where?
One Grafton Common
Suite 123
Grafton, MA
It’s the building with the AppleTree Arts in it!
When?
Sunday, November 5,2 017
1-3pm
All are welcome! Share the news with family and friends!
For more about the Grafton Common Art Gallery, visit:
To see more of Carol’s beautiful paintings, visit her website here:
https://carolarnoldfineart.com
Here are another few examples of her work:
‘Tis the season to decorate your world with symbols of love, hope, and peace. The crane is the perfect representation of all of these things!
Come on out to our Grafton Common Art Gallery for a FREE hands-on workshop on creating origami ornaments! We supply all the paper, hooks, and beads. You supply the creativity! It’s a perfect craft for young and old. Once you learn the technique, you could fill your entire tree with cranes and give them as special gifts.
What color will you make? Shimmering white? Shining gold? A pattern of red and green? The sky’s the limit!
Where?
One Grafton Common
Suite 123
Grafton, MA
It’s the building with the AppleTree Arts in it!
When?
Saturday, November 4th, 2017
6-8pm
All are welcome! Share the news with family and friends!
For more about the Grafton Common Art Gallery, visit:
Here’s a few more ideas to get you thinking!
Come on out to our Grafton Common Art Gallery reception! There will be music, food, fun, and of course beautiful artwork of all shapes, sizes, and colors! We have landscapes, still lifes, oil paintings, photography, watercolors, and more. There are ornaments and notecards, prints and jewelry.
This gallery features the work of these local artists:
Janet Aleid, painter
Joe Altruda, photography
Carol Arnold, painter
Deb Bottomley, painter
Gary Cunningham, painter
Bonnie Frederico, painter
Carol Frieswick, painter
Muriel Funka, fabric arts
Betty Havens, painter
James Hunt, photographer
Katie Messina, painting and photography
Lisa Shea, painting and photography
Bev Tinklenberg, painter
Al Weems, photographer
Where?
One Grafton Common
Suite 123
Grafton, MA
It’s the building with the AppleTree Arts in it!
When?
Thursday, November 16th, 2017
5-8pm
All are welcome! Share the news with family and friends!
For more about the Grafton Common Art Gallery, visit:
Here are a few photos from our light painting workshop we held on October 19, 2017! It was amazingly fun. We used a Pixel Stick for many of these images. Models are Libia Goncalves, Michelle Benjamin, and Lisa Shea.
The Blackstone Valley Art Association is sponsoring the “6th Annual Anything Goes Photography Show” – this show is open to the public! All styles of cameras and cellphone images are warmly welcome!
When:
January 17 to March 5, 2018
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
Participation is open to the public. Each participant may exhibit three photos. These will be judged for cash prizes. A portion of all sales goes to support the work of Alternatives in the community.
Entering the Show
The entry fee for the main show, open to all styles of photography, is $20/3 pieces for BVAA members and $30/3 pieces for non-members. The theme is wide open. You can submit a portrait, landscape, still life, abstract, seascape, you name it. Your imagination is the limit.
Photos can be any size. That being said, please contact us first if you plan on bringing anything over 20″ x 30″ in size. We need to arrange for space for those separately.
All photography must be family friendly and properly wired for hanging. Our hanging system does not work with saw-tooth or triangle hangers. If you are new to preparing photography for shows, read our page on How to Mat and Frame a Photo. Please also check out our Show Terms and Conditions
All photos which are entered are hung. There is no “pre-selection” process where some are accepted and others are rejected. If you submit artwork, and it is family-friendly and wired properly, it will be part of our show.
Submissions
To submit your entries use our BVAA Online Submission Form. The deadline to submit is midnight on Monday, January 15th, 2018. Work must be dropped off by Wednesday, January 17th, 2018 at 3pm. All work which is brought in will be hung (as long as it is properly wired and is family-friendly).
On Tuesday, January 16th the gallery is open from 10am to 3pm as usual, and then we have our photography discussion session Tuesday night from 6:30pm to 9pm. The gallery will open at 6pm to prepare for that. So you’re welcome to drop off your artwork Tuesday night as well as during the regular 10am to 3pm gallery hours.
We will hang the show on Wednesday night at 6pm, as the judge is coming in to review the show at noon on Thursday.
Judging
The Anything Goes show awards cash prizes based on the number of entries received. The judge for this show is Professor DiRado.
Professor DiRado received a B.F.A. from Massachusetts College of Art in 1981 and a Certificate of Art from the School of the Worcester Art Museum in 1979. He is currently a Professor of Practice in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Clark University. DiRado is a photographer whose work is based on long-term documentary projects. He has received numerous fellowships, grants and awards throughout his career. His work can be found in museum collections across the country, including the MFA, Boston, MFA, Houston, DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA and the Currier Museum in NH. He has had one person shows in many galleries and museums, including a most recent one in 2008/2009 at the Fitchburg Art Museum, Stephen DiRado’s Dinner Series: How We Lived.
Opening Reception
The opening reception for the show is Friday, January 19th, 2018 from 4-7pm. Invite family and friends – all are welcome!
Film / Alternate Photography Sub-Show
There will be a smaller exhibition of film photography, cyanotypes, and other non-digital photos at this show. A separate best of show will be awarded to this section. The entry fee for this is $5 each for up to 3 pieces. You are welcome to enter both parts of the show!
In addition to the cash prize for the winner here, the winner will also get a gift certificate for film development at Old School Photo Lab. They do amazing work with film of all kinds – they’re highly recommended!
Pick Up
Saturday, March 3rd, 2018, from 10am to 3pm. If you aren’t able to make that, please contact us for other arrangements.
Address any questions via our BVAA Contact Information
Ask with any questions! We look forward to seeing your entries!
Video Walkthrough: