Category: BVAA Shows and Events

Once again the Blackstone Valley Art Association will be pairing up with Claflin Hill Symphony Orchestra to provide artistic beauty to go with each show! These art shows are “pop-up” shows in the sense that we hang the works the day before, the art is seen during the one-night orchestra concert, and then we take the art down the next day. The art show is free to participate in, is not judged, and we have seen sales at these events. It’s a great way to get your art seen by an art-appreciating audience.

Here are the show dates for the 2015-2016 season, along with the musical themes. Art brought to the shows do not need to match the theme, but we do find that patrons appreciate it when there’s a beautiful piece of art that goes with the music!

More details about each show will be added as we get closer.

In the Shadow of Ludwig Van …
Saturday, November 5, 2016
7:30pm – 10:00pm

Holiday Pops 2016
Saturday, December 10, 2016
7:30pm – 10:00pm

Fire & Ice
Saturday, February 4, 2017
10:00pm – 11:00pm

Seascapes
Saturday, March 4, 2017
7:30pm – 10:00pm

CHSO Family Symphony
Sunday, March 26, 2017
3:00pm – 5:00pm

Road Trip
Saturday, April 29, 2017
7:30pm – 10:00pm

For full details on these shows visit:
https://www.claflinhill.com/symphony-series/

Everyone had great fun today at the plein air event and a great demo by Dustin Neece

Reminder our Plein Air is today Sat 8/13 at 11am – it’ll be fun!

https://bvaa.org/2016/07/20/plein-air-sat-aug-6-2016/

IMPORTANT!

The Plein Air has been moved to August 13, 2016. Contact us with any questions! All participants were directly notified.

Full details on the plein air:

https://bvaa.org/2016/07/20/plein-air-sat-aug-6-2016/

The Blackstone Valley Art Association will be participating in the Worcester Canal District Art Walk!

This fun event runs each third Tuesday of the month throughout the summer on Water Street in Worcester.

There’s music! Painting! Singing! Food! All styles of non-photographic art are warmly welcomed.

Bring an easel and do some live painting!

Let us know if you’d like to participate. It’s completely free! It’s a one-day pop-up type of show.

Photos from the June 2016 Art Walk:
https://bvaa.org/past-events/past-events-2016/worcester-canal-district-art-walk-june-2016/

Official website:
https://www.facebook.com/ArtWalkCanalDistrict/

Open to all BVAA members!

Every month we host a free online art show on Flickr. This great image-sharing site is free to use and reaches millions of art lovers.

The theme for the month of August 2016 is Layers!

You can find our BVAA Flicker area here:

https://www.flickr.com/groups/bvaa/

Show us your favorite layer images!

Every two months we rotate the show at the Milford TV Station. The drop-off for the upcoming September-October 2016 show on the theme of “Cities” is Thursday, August 25th from 6-8pm. We do these on the last Thursday of the month preceding the show.

This date is also the reception (and take down) for the existing “Summer” show. The public is welcome and encouraged to attend!

Please bring food or drink to share!

The Milford TV Station is at 138 South Main Street.

https://www.milfordtv.net/

The Milford people do the labels and hanging for us, so there is no need to use our online submission form to indicate what you’re bringing. Simply be sure to label the back of each piece with its title, your name, and the price. Milford does not take any commission on sales.

This show is for BVAA members only and is free to participate in. Most artists bring in three items but if you have more that’s great! The items can be any size or shape – Milford has a great hanging system which can accommodate pretty much anything.

Start planning out your artistic projects! The Blackstone Valley Art Association is having their traditional 2016 Fall Show. We will be exhibiting our works at the Alternatives gallery in Uxbridge, Massachusetts.

This show is open to all BVAA members.

Submissions must be done via our online form by Monday, October 3rd, 2016 at midnight.
BVAA Submission Form

Drop-off is on Wednesday, October 5th from 9am to 2:30pm. If you can’t make that, contact us for alternative arrangements.

Hanging is Thursday, October 6th from noon to 2pm.

Show official dates: October 7th through October 28th.

Reception
Opening Friday October 7th from 4-7pm. All are welcome! We’ll have refreshments and music.
Artists can bring bin art to showcase!
What is bin art?

Pickup is October 28th.

Three pieces maximum, no size limit, properly wired for hanging. No saw tooth hangers.

There’s room for 3D pieces as well.

Entry fee: $20. Cash prizes based on number of entries. The judge will be Jerry Aissis.

Location:
5 South Main Street
Uxbridge, MA 01569
(in the block of brick buildings right along South Main, in with the Subway).

Please print out copies of this flyer and post them at your local library!

Fall Show Flyer

Here are the full terms and conditions for our shows. Alternatives is taking a 20% commission on sales – this goes to support the community Alternatives serves. Because of that, the BVAA is waiving all of their own commissions and the sole commission for this show is the 20% for Alternatives.

BVAA Show Terms and Conditions

The Blackstone Valley Art Association Art & Poetry Pair-Up is a fascinating adventure in creativity. It merges the worlds of the written and the visual. Is a picture truly worth a thousand words? Or is it as Isaac D’Israeli said, that a poet is a painter of the soul? We’re about to find out!

Here’s how this works.

All of the participating artists at the BVAA put their names into a purple fedora. The participating poets of the Worcester Writing Collective and the Sutton Writing Group put their names into a cerulean bowler. We then randomly draw the name of one visual artist and one poet. These two now form a dyadic unit. A collaboration of audio and optical.

The visual artist creates a work of art in their chosen medium. It could be an oil painting, a watercolor, a sculpture, mixed media, photography, or whatever else they wish.

The poet writes a poem on any topic they wish. It can be a sonnet, a haiku, a limerick, a free-form verse, or any other form of poetry.

When each person is done, they present their result to their opposite half. The yin to their yang.

Now the poet has a piece of art to interpret. They create a fresh poem about this work of art. It can be a literal interpretation of what they see. It can be a pondering of the emotions they feel. The poet can interpret that work of art in any way they desire.

The visual artist has a poem to interpret. The artist creates a fresh work of art to explore this poem. Again, they can choose to literally portray what the poem describes. They can choose to focus on one aspect. They can create an abstract representation of the emotions. Anything at all.

We are looking to reserve gallery space at the Worcester Public Library for Spring 2017 for our show. So by the spring we will have a two pairs of creations from each pair of artist-poet. There will be the work of visual art with the poem written about it, and there will be the piece of poetry that had a visual art created to match. Each art-poem combination will be hung together.

Let us know if you are interested in participating! Our aim is to finalize the lists of names by August 31, 2016.

The Blackstone Valley Art Association has an ongoing art show at the Milford TV Station in Milford, Massachusetts. We swap out our images every two months with a reception on the last Thursday of the month. Receptions are open to the public and are the drop off / pick up for the show.

Here is our schedule for September 2016 through August 2017.

Sep-Oct 2016 – Cities

Nov-Dec 2016 – Small Works (items small in size and inexpensive in price for gift-giving)

Jan-Feb 2017 – Winter

Mar-Apr 2017 – Animals

May-Jun 2017 – Flowers

Jul-Aug 2017 – Dog Days of Summer