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700 Twitter followers
The Blackstone Valley Art Association now has over 700 Twitter followers! Thank you to supporters of Local Art and Artists!
Hidden Mona Lisa Painting
French scientist says he found a hidden painting underneath Mona Lisa with a different facial expression –
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500 Twitter followers
The Blackstone Valley Art Association now has 500 Twitter followers! Thank you for supporting local artists! If you’re a BVAA member with a Twitter account, please let us know so we can add you to our listing and retweet your posts. If you don’t have a Twitter account set up yet, now’s the time to act! It’s a perfect way to promote your items for the holidays! Quick, easy, and HUGE reach.
400 Twitter followers
The Blackstone Valley Art Association now has over 400 Twitter followers! Thank you all so much for supporting Local Art & Artists!
Holga Camera Factory Closing
Important update! News from various sources – which has been confirmed – is that as of November 2015 the Holga camera factory is shutting down. It seems there is such little demand for 120 film cameras – especially cheap ones made of plastic – that it’s just not worth it for them to stay in business any more.
The Wall Street Journal did a photo essay on the Holga Camera Factory on February 18, 2014 – these things are hand assembled. Which might be why they are not making enough money on this project to keep it going.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303491404579390430230557414
And unfortunately it’s not that someone else could buy the factory and resurrect it. Patrick White of Freestyle Photography Supplies has reported “they have sent all of the tooling and molds to the scrapyard.” So true Holgas can never be made again. Someone would have to start making imitation Holgas.
Here is a Flickr group about Holga images with over 277,000 images –
https://www.flickr.com/groups/86881528@N00/
If you’re interested in Holgas make sure you grab yours soon!
50 Massachusetts museums
We’ve got over 50 Massachusetts museums gathered for you in one Twitter listing – how many have you been to? Which did we miss that have Twitter accounts?
https://twitter.com/BVArtAssoc/lists/massachusetts-museums/members
Minutes of BVAA Meeting 17Nov15
- Very well received
- 10-12 artists, more than 50 pieces
- We have opportunity to continue for rest of season
- The Christmas show would be a good one for us
- 17 panels used (note: we have 30 panels total)
- Note: we need entry titles in advance to prepare tags
- Anne McNevin to co-ordinate the next show
- Thank you to, Carol Dandrade and Marie Cafferty for volunteering.
- After discussing with both we are pleased to announce that Carol will be the new Secretary
- As our current by-laws are out of date and inaccurate we are revising them and will put to the vote at our Christmas Party
- Volunteers required, contact Carol Frieswick
- Bin art is welcome, all sales will be via Alternatives with 25% commission
- Drop-off bin art by Wednesday 25Nov15 9-4 or Sat. morning at 10 am.
- 6Dec15
- Details will be sent shortly in newsletter
- Lisa will bring credit card reader Sat, Carol F on Sun.
- Details to be sent shortly in newsletter
- Food will be from Oliva’s
- Please bring desserts and beverages of choice
- Please scroll down to see submission details and use for artwork