Category: Non-BVAA Events

The Village Art Show in Worcester, Massachusetts has an Open Call for 2017. The show runs from Sunday, May 8th through Sunday, June 4th, 2017.

From their flyer:

Drawing. Painting. Printmaking. Photography.
Mixed Media. Small Clay and 3-D Works.

A digital submission of your work (up to 3 pieces) must be submitted to ArtReach via email at dns1@earthlink.net and you must have “VILLAGE ART SHOW” written in the memo. You will be contacted in 24 hours that your submission has been accepted. Submission deadline is April 26th.

The maximum size for 2-Dimensional work is 48” x 48” and 18” x 18” for clay and 3-dimensional work.

ALL ArtWork must be delivered, ready to hang (see Artist’s Agreement) with your $7 hanging fee, to ArtReach during the week of May 1st to May 5th, between the hours of 1:00pm and 6:00pm. If those hours don’t work, please email Darcy at dns1@earthlink.net to arrange a time.

The show will be hung on Sunday, May 7th. The show will be up until Sunday, June 4th. The Opening reception will be held on Saturday, May 13th, with Artists in the show expected to attend.

Artists may pick-up their unsold work on Monday, June 7th thru Wednesday, June 9th.

Artists may keep 100% of the sales from their work.

Please see the Artists Agreement/Receipt and Information Form for details.

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From the email message:

The First Village Art Show held at ArtReach in Worcester has an OPEN CALL TO ARTISTS to SHOW and SELL their work. Please share. Artists keep 100% of the sale price. ArtReach has over 200 students and families who are interested in ART coming through the studio each week. What a wonderful opportunity for Artists. The opening is scheduled for Saturday, May 13th, and will have light refreshments, drinks, and live music. lease consider putting a piece in the show, and sharing this email with any artists who you think may be interested.

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They are located at 322 West Boylston Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. That’s up past the Greendale Mall, just before Greendale’s Pub, for those who know that area.

This is not a BVAA show  – we are simply sharing the news about it.

The Premier Image Gallery in Ashland is having a 2017 Photography Show. In general these shows are open to all artists and anybody who drops off their art (and pays the entrance fee) is hung on the walls.

Drop-off dates are:

Thursday, May 18th 9-4

Friday, May 19th 9-4

Saturday, May 20th 10-1

They must be properly wired and framed – no clip frames. Entry fee is $5 per piece, up to three pieces.

The opening reception is Thursday, June 1st from 5:30 – 7:30pm.

The gallery receives a 40% commission. All submitted items must be available for sale.

Pickup is Thu July 20th & Fri Jul 21st, 10-4, and Sat July 22nd 10-1.

Call the callery for more details at 508-881-4730.

Here is their official entry form:

Premier Photography 2017 Entry Form

These photos were from the Ginsberg evening on Friday, April 7th, 2017. This was a combination Poetry – Author – Art event at the Sprinkler Factory done in the environment of photography by the Ron Rosenstock group. The art show runs through April 30 2017.

More info about the photography show –

https://www.sprinklerfactory.com/east-gallery.html

From the Massachusetts Cultural Council, this is not a BVAA event but it sounds interesting!

The Jamaica Plain Arts Council, JPNDC, and Samuel Adams are co-hosting PROJECTIONS II: Art on the Brewery Walls.

On the evening of May 13th, 2017, artists’ images will be projected onto the outside walls of Jamaica Plain’s Brewery Complex. Submissions can include images 2D, 3D, and video. This nontraditional art show is open to all artists. You can work in any medium and you do not have to live in Jamaica Plain. Innovation and originality are valued.

Submission is free and open to any artist. Each artist may submit up to three (3) images for inclusion in the Projections event.

Email your entry to: juriedshow2017@jpopenstudios.com with the following information:
* artist name
* mailing address
* email address
* up to three (3) images of your work.

Images must comply with the following guidelines (images that do not comply will not be accepted):
* JPEG format
* 1920px on the longest side
* titled as follows: last name_first name_ entry # (e.g. smith_john_1.jpg).

List of images with the following information:
title, medium, dimensions, price.

Deadline: April 19, 2017 (midnight)

For more information, visit the JP page:

JP Open Studios / Art on Brewery Walls

This isn’t being run by the BVAA, but several of our members participate in this if you’re interested.

Spring is coming, has already been here, is coming again. 70 degrees on Feb. 24, 14 degrees a week later, a foot of snow….this has certainly been a strange winter. But I do believe as we approach the mid to end of April, it might get back on track for a fine spring day.

Therefore we have a bus trip to NYC planned for Friday the 21st of April. We might find cherry blossoms ready to bloom as we journey through Central Park, magnolia petals echoing the Gothic architecture of many churches and tulips dancing in the wind in Washington Square.

For those who are interested in watercolors, the American Watercolor Society’s annual international exhibition will be open (from 1 – 5 PM) during its last days of the exhibit. There is an exhibit of Turner’s work at the Frick.

The bus will start the journey in Warwick at 7:30 AM (exit 10A Park and Lock on Rte 117). There will be 1 stop in CT for food and bathroom. In NYC there will be 3 stops going down Fifth Ave from north to south. First stop at the Met (around 82nd St) Met, Guggenheim, Neue Gallery of Austria and German art, Frick, MOMA, etc.

The 2nd stop will be midtown (around 45th St)….St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Times Square, Rockefeller Center, great shopping, etc.

The 3rd will be downtown somewhere around Houston St. which separates Greenwich Village from SOHO…..Washington Sq. AWS show, Chelsea, Twin Towers, Wall St., Canal St…..etc.

The bus will pick us up near the NYC Library ( midtown) at 6:30PM sharp for our return trip. We should be back in Warwick ( after a short stop in CT), by about 10 – 10:30 PM

The cost of this trip will be $42 pp.

If you are interested in putting your name on the list for the bus, please email me (cberren1@cox.net) with your name, the number of people in your party, your telephone # and your email. Payment (made out to me as I will be giving them one check) will be due 1 month before (March 20).

Kindest regards,

Carole Berren

The Cuttyhunk Plein Air Festival 2017 is not run by the BVAA – we are simply sharing the news about this fun event. Here are the details from their press release:

Cuttyhunk will welcome artists for the second annual Plein Air Festival, a one-day paint-in-place event hosted by the Cuttyhunk Cultural Council, Long Range Planning Committee, and the Cuttyhunk Historical Society, when the ferry arrives on Saturday, June 17, 2017.

Teri Bordenave, a member of the Cultural Council board, has arranged for mainland artists who register for the festival to be transported aboard the M/V Cuttyhunk with a same-day round-trip ticket and lunch included in the $75 registration fee. “We were gratified to have 50 participants the first year, including some island artists, who enjoyed setting up an easel in their favorite spot and having an opportunity to sell their work before the ferry departed at 4:00 p.m.,” she said recently.

The event is limited to the first 50 registrants.

The fee for island residents who wish to participate is $30. There is no commission to any of the organizers for the sale of paintings. The budget for the second year of the festival is about $3,800 with expenses mostly offset by the registration fees and a pending festival grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Visit www.cuttyhunkpleinair.com for more information or to register.

Kris Lombard of the Island Market and Lexi Lynch from CTHK Café will prepare tasty box lunches for the participants, including a mini lobster roll or vegetarian alternative. Island volunteers will serve as ambassadors to meet the ferry and give artists a brief overview tour from the island map, courtesy of the Museum, that they will receive with the registration packet. The _ARTY begins at 3:00 p.m. when the artists will be transported back to the ferry dock and their work will be judged by a panel of three professional jurors. Island residents, visitors, boaters, and their guests will be invited to a reception and art sale at the Coast Guard boat house.

Prizes, including a Spirit of Cuttyhunk award, will be announced and artists will depart on the ferry. Organizers hope that participants will spread the word about the natural beauty of Cuttyhunk and artists will return again and again.

Jurors will be Jodi Stevens an artist based in New Bedford who exhibits internationally and is the former lead curator at Dedee Shattuck Gallery in Westport, MA; Severin Haines, Professor Emeritus at UMass Dartmouth, who has exhibited in numerous one-person and group shows from New York to Norway and has painted large public murals in New Bedford and Fairhaven; and Cuttyhunk’s own Bob Smith, a partner in the Four-Corner Gallery in Tiverton, RI.

In case of downpour or forecast for steady rain, the festival will be held on Sunday, June 18.

If drizzle or spotty showers are predicted, the organizers are looking for sheltered porches where artists would be welcome to set up and paint.

Mainland residents are encouraged to come for the day to watch the painters at work, enjoy lunch from one of the island eateries: CTHK Café, Island Market, Raw Bar, Lucky Dog Grill, or the M/V Cuttyhunk. The ferry departs New Bedford at 9:00 a.m. and leaves the island at 4:00 p.m.

For more information on the festival contact Sara Ellis Lehner at sellisl@mac.com

Here are a collection of photos from the 2017 Palette Show held at Alternatives in Whitinsville! Kudos to everyone for their creativity!

2017 Alternatives Palette Show Details

Reminder! Today Thursday March 2nd 2017 is the LAST DAY to drop off your palette at Alternatives Whitinsville! Get those in!

Full details:

https://bvaa.org/2016/12/27/2017-alternatives-whitinsville-palette-contest/

The Deadline for the Spring Issue of the Mused Literary Review is TODAY!! Get your poetry / short story / artwork / photography submitted by tonight for consideration for the upcoming Mused Spring issue! It’s free to submit!

https://www.bellaonline.com/review/