In the morning from 10-1 Lisa will do an online demo of Gelli Plates with her new tripod so it’s steady :). You can paint along in the Gelli style, or paint whatever you want to paint and just chat while we work. It’ll be relaxing and lovely!
From 1-3 talented artist Laura O. Cenedella will do a live painting session, showing you how to paint this lighthouse with oil paints! You’ll get to see her at-home studio and ask questions! It’ll take place on her Facebook page.
Laura’s Supply List: M.GRAHAM&Co. Artist Oil Color and Acrylic Artist Color or Comparable White, Yellow Ochre, Red, Blue · Grey Pad Disposable Paper Palette · Impasto Mediums/ Walnut oil/ drying medium · Mineral spirits/Water · Paper towels · Brushes for Oil or Acrylic Painting · A can or jar for mineral spirits/water · A palette knife for mixing or for cleaning your palette · A bag for trash · A clip to clip your trash bag to your easel or tripod · An easel or paint box · Canvas Artist Board or Paper Anything else you may be comfortable to use.
Due to the current health situation with the COVID-19 / Coronavirus in Massachusetts, we will *** NOT *** be holding our open paint at the Uxbridge Gallery on Saturday, March 14th, 2020.
The gallery space will be open so that those artists who need to pick up photo-show artworks can stop in to retrieve them.
Contact info@bvaa.org with any questions or to coordinate with Lisa about when you will stop by.
Be Healthy!
Our gallery and events are supported by the local cultural councils, Open Sky, and ValleyCAST.
Since February can sometimes be snowed out, we use this month for a session which is casual. We all bring in our latest works or images and then offer each other suggestions and advice. You can bring the works in in person or bring JPG images on a thumb drive for us to view on a laptop. You can bring in paintings, drawings, or sculptures. Whatever you wish! It’ll be fun, relaxed, and conversational.
Our February 2020 monthly meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 18th from 6:30-9pm.
Location: BVAA Open Sky Uxbridge Community Gallery 5 South Main Street Uxbridge, MA 01569
This meeting and workshop is free and open to the public. No experience is necessary. The fun of our workshops is that we all try new things we’ve never done before.
Our meetings cover BVAA organization business from 6:30-7:00pm and then go into the workshop part of the evening. Feel free to come for whichever half interests you the most. In general, our monthly meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month unless otherwise announced.
All are welcome – this workshop is open to members and non-members. Feel free to bring along a friend! We’d love to see you there to try some new things and explore your creativity!
Ask with any questions!
This Uxbridge gallery is supported in part by BVAA member dues, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and by ValleyCAST. The space use is kindly donated to us by ValleyCast, the community outreach department of Open Sky Community Services. Open Sky uses this space for special-needs client activities during daytime weekdays. They allow the BVAA use of the space – and its gallery walls – on evenings and weekends. We actively support their inclusive mission. All are welcome to all of our events and activities!
The Choco l’Art fun BVAA art show is now live at the Whitinsville Library! This is a PEOPLE’S CHOICE award – please stop by and vote! Your vote determines the winner! Share the news with family and friends!
FREE fun chocolate reception this Saturday 2/15 from 10am-2pm all warmly welcome!
Thank you so much to Judith Potter for taking these photos for us!
This was a free BVAA Pastel Class -it was an awesome time with a great group of talented and fun people!!!
Instructor: Ella Delyanis.
Thank you to the Massachusetts Cultural Council and Uxbridge / Northbridge Cultural Councils for funding our demos so most of them can be discount rate or free.
The Blackstone Heritage Corridor is an organization which manages and promotes the beautiful Blackstone Valley. They have a visitor’s center in Worcester at the northern end of the “Millbury Bike Path” (we take photos here regularly). They have a central office in the Linwood Mill complex in Northbridge. They run all sorts of delightful nature walks in the area.
You can learn more about the Blackstone Heritage Corridor group here –
In their Linwood Mill office they have a gallery hall created with beautiful granite. They would like to have a display of 12 artwork items there which celebrate the beauty of the Blackstone Valley. The items can be paintings, photos, drawings, anything that can hang. You can see the area here:
The way this wall is wired is that there’s a long block of wood running the entire length of that upper area. Screws are screwed into the wood at regular intervals, with wire coming down from those screws. One then ties that wire to the wire at the back of the artwork.
The spacing allows for artwork which is about 18×22 in size or smaller. Larger art items would “run into each other”. Bonnie just measured the hooks and they are 23″ apart. Since we have art of varying sizes, we could put the 18×22 pieces alongside smaller pieces to create space.
Also, the artwork should be reasonably light. Heavy frames wouldn’t do well on this hook/wire setup.
We’re looking for 12 artists to each have an item to submit for this. The wall is currently empty, as shown. So the sooner we could get art into here, the better. Please contact info@bvaa.org if you’re interested in participating. The idea is to have the art up through March. Then in April we’d swap out for a “pollinator” show celebrating bees, butterflies, and the like, for spring.
NOTE: THIS SHOW IS CURRENTLY HUNG! THANK YOU TO THE PARTICIPANTS WHO JUMPED IN TO BE A PART OF THIS SHOW!
Where Blackstone Heritage Corridor office Linwood Mill complex (in back) 670 Linwood Avenue Whitinsville MA 01588 Blackstone Heritage Corridor Webpage
Submissions Email info@bvaa.org if you’re interested in participating. We’d like to get the art in as soon as possible. There’s no fee. Sales would give a 25% commission to the Blackstone Heritage Corridor (a great cause!).
Drop-Off This show was fully hung on Monday, January 20th, 2020. Thank you to everyone who is participating in this show!
Public Reception We are aiming for Friday, March 20th – right around the Spring Equinox! for our reception. We’re still confirming that.
Our 2020 Choco l’Art show is the perfect melding of chocolate and art! Enjoy the taste sensation! This our 9th Annual celebration of the theme!
All forms of hanging art are welcome – photography, watercolors, acrylics, oils, fabric art, drawings, etc. The art must be wired to work with our panel system. The art doesn’t have to be about chocolate. It can be about anything you wish :).
Submissions The submission deadline is Saturday, February 8th, 2020 at midnight EST. This show is displayed on panels so works submitted need to be less than 36″ wide in order to fit on a panel. There’s a $5 fee for up to 3 works. It’s open to all BVAA members. As this is a judged show, only pieces which have not been previously entered into a BVAA judged show are eligible for participation. Any sales will include a 20% BVAA commission. Full BVAA terms: BVAA Show Terms and Conditions
Drop-Off The drop-off for Choco l’Art is Monday, February 10th, 2020 from 10am to 2pm. We’ll be setting up the panels during that time and will hang things as we get close to 2pm. If you can’t make that timeframe, let us know and we’ll arrange another time to coordinate – maybe you can drop off at the gallery the previous Saturday and we can take it in from there, for example.
Public Reception The reception is on Saturday, February 15th from 10am to 2pm. All are welcome! There’ll be lots of chocolate in all shapes, sizes, and varieties. Artists – please bring in some chocolate of your own to share (no nuts please). If you know of a local store that could donate chocolate, please let us know.
Pick-Up Pick-up for the show is Tuesday, February 18th from from 1pm to 2pm. Note the library closes at 2pm.
Prizes This show has the visitors vote on a “People’s Choice” award. There’s a ribbon plus a cash prize. The prize amount is based on the number of entries.
Theme You can do a romantic theme or a chocolate theme if you’d like, but it’s not required!
Volunteers Needed The BVAA is run by volunteers – please lend a hand! We need volunteers for the following activities: * Bringing of Panels and Hanging the show from noon-2pm on Mon Feb 10th * Watching over the reception for time blocks of your choice between 10am and 2pm on Sat, Feb 15th. * Bringing of chocolate for the chocolate reception (please do not include any nuts) * Take-down of the show from 1-2 on Tuesday, February 18th and return of panels
Let us know on your submission form how you’re able to help out.
If you have photos from the first show please let us know!
The 2016 winner for this show was Carole Plante with her chocolate lab! Quite appropriate :).
Here’s what Carole did for 2018 :).
Again, you don’t have to include chocolate in your submission. For some reason it seems that the “people’s choice” voters seem to vote for chocolate things while they are eating chocolate. So it does help your chances. Still, we’ve had non-chocolate winners in the past!
To explore the changes our Earth is undergoing, we are holding an art show on the theme of Climate Crisis. All interpretations in all media are warmly encouraged.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead
We had originally intended to hold this show in the Uxbridge Art Gallery over Earth Day in April, but due to the pandemic we have instead adjusted this show to be an online-only show held in June.
This Climate Crisis show is for all BVAA members to participate in. Art can be in any media in any size. We look forward to seeing your interpretations of this important topic!
When: June 2020
Where: Online on our BVAA pages on Facebook and YouTube. Milford TV also runs our videos.
Each BVAA member may exhibit up to five artwork images. There is NO FEE and NO JUDGING. This show is for publicity and exposure. If you enter artwork in this show, you can still enter it in any future BVAA show.
All art must be family friendly.
All art items which are entered are included. There is no “pre-selection” process where some are accepted and others are rejected. If you submit artwork, and it is family-friendly, it will be part of our show.
To enter, check your latest BVAA newsletter. We have the entry information in there. The deadline to get your JPGs to us is Sunday, June 7th, 2020. We will then coordinate with you about the narration for the images.
Opening Reception The opening reception date will be Thursday, June 25th at 6pm! The video will go live both on YouTube and Facebook on that date. Here is the YouTube link!
This Uxbridge gallery is supported in part by BVAA member dues, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and by ValleyCAST. The space use is kindly donated to us by ValleyCast, the community outreach department of Open Sky Community Services. Open Sky uses this space for special-needs client activities during daytime weekdays. They allow the BVAA use of the space – and its gallery walls – on evenings and weekends. We actively support their inclusive mission. All are welcome to all of our events and activities!
