Category: Field Trips

This week’s Free Friday museum visit was to the Worcester Art Museum! Friday, June 24, 2016. What a gorgeous place. If you haven’t been yet you should definitely go!

Here are a few photos:

Worcester Art Museum Field Trip – June 24 2016

The Highland Street Foundation has made all of the following locations FREE on Friday, June 24, 2016!

 

Tanglewood, Lenox

Lyric Stage, Boston

Clark Art Institute, Williamstown

Mass MoCA, North Adams

Worcester Art Museum, Worcester

Children’s Museum, Holyoke

Volleyball Museum, Holyoke

The Mount, Lenox

 

Join us at the Worcester Art Museum at 2pm to explore the shows!

More details:

https://www.highlandstreet.org/programs/free-fun-fridays-june-24-2016

 

Be sure to look ahead to next week’s offerings!

We’re heading out on a field trip on Wednesday, June 8th, 2016 to see the “Cats” show at the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts. A number of BVAA members are participating in this show!

We’ll meet at the main desk in the lobby at 2pm. Contact Lisa for more details about coordinating with the group if you’re late or lost. The museum’s open until 5pm on Wednesday so there’ll be time to explore the rest of the museum as people choose.

Here’s information on the Cat submission process!

https://bvaa.org/2016/02/27/cats-show-at-worcester-art-museum/

Here’s the Worcester Art Museum page on their exhibition.

https://www.worcesterart.org/exhibitions/meow/

Cat image by BVAA artist Janet Aleid

The Highland Street Foundation has announced their Free Fun Fridays list for 2016! Where should we go each week? Let us know your choices!

https://www.highlandstreet.org/

We all had a great time at the plein air event today with Gerry Blouin and particularly enjoyed chatting with Gerry about BMW motorcycles! Bob

Here we go! A few photos from our Tower Hill field trip last week!

https://bvaa.org/past-events/past-events-2016/past-events-2016-tower-hill-botanic-garden/

 

Reminder! The BVAA has a fun field trip to the Tower Hill Botanic Garden on Wed April 27, 2016!

We’ll be there starting at 2pm – come on out and join us!

Tower Hill Field Trip – Full Details

Carol Frieswick, Becky Smith, and several other BVAA painters are organizing a loose plein air group to enjoy the warmer months. Here’s a photo of the group out on Sat April 12, 2016.

If you’d like to get notices about when the group will go out to paint, please let us know at INFO at BVAA.ORG. Let us know if you prefer weekdays or weekends, the time of day that works well for you, and so on.

As you might imagine, the field trips will be dependent on weather.

Breathe in the fresh spring air! The BVAA is taking a field trip to the Tower Hill Botanical Garden on Wednesday, April 27th, 2016.

Tower Hill reports that their daffodil field is now at its peak, so it’s the time to go! And Wednesday is forecast for sunny weather. Because of the warm winter the field isn’t as lush as it’s been in years past, but it’ll still be a fun opportunity for great photography and painting!

More info on Tower Hill –

https://www.towerhillbg.org/

Let us know at the main INFO @ BVAA.org email address if you’d like to join us. The plan is to go in mid-afternoon when it’s both sunny and warm. Most people are arriving around 2pm but earlier or later is quite fine. Contact Lisa via text or cell or her gmail.com email address once you get there if you’d like to hook up. Or just meander over to the daffodils :).

Also, Tower Hill is running a photography contest. The photo must have been taken between April 1 and April 30, 2016 at Tower Hill. Check out the full details and enter!

https://towerhillbotanicgarden.tumblr.com/post/141848803334/contest-submit-your-best-daffodil-photo

The weather is looking great, so we are a GO for the Shaw Farm Photo Shoot on Friday, March 18th at 5-6pm in Sutton MA!

Here is where we will be meeting up:

Please bring good solid walking shoes and appropriate clothing – the barn is in rough shape and there is broken glass.

Coming from 146:

Take the Central Turnpike exit (exit 7) in Sutton and head west. This will be left if you’re on 146N and right if you’re on 146S. The intersection with Putnam Hill Road is just over three miles down. It’s where the Blue Jay Restaurant used to be, if you know the area. Take the right onto Putnam Hill Road, and then the right onto Shaw Lane.

Drive all the way up to the top of the hill, turn around, and then park on the right side (the north side) of the road facing back toward Putnam Hill Road. That way we can try to keep the cars out of our photos.

It should be an interesting field trip!

Let us know if you have any questions.