Category: BVAA Shows and Events

The BVAA, in conjunction with the Claflin Hill Symphony Orchestra, is offering a fun night of art and music! The orchestra provides the music while the BVAA provides the art!
Milford Town Hall
52 Main Street
Milford, MA 01757

On Saturday, February 4th, 2017 from 7:30-10:00pm the Claflin Hill Symphony Orchestra will be performing a show. The BVAA will have art up for patrons to enjoy before the show and during intermission. This is an art-loving audience and we see good sales at these shows.

Submissions
Deadline to submit your titles and sizes via the online form is Monday, January 30th. This gives us time to determine how many panels will be needed. There’s no fee to participate and the show is open to all BVAA members. Anne will then respond back to everyone with a copy of the labels to proof and approve. If you don’t submit your information by Monday night you may still be able to participate, but your labels might not be proofed. This show is displayed on panels so works submitted need to be less than 36″ wide in order to fit on a panel. Any sales will include a 20% BVAA commission. Full BVAA terms: BVAA Show Terms and Conditions.

Drop-Off
Drop-Off for the show will be Friday, February 3rd from 4-6pm. Everything will be set up Friday night so it’s ready to go for Saturday. If you can’t make it on Friday, you can drop off Thursday during their open hours. Just put the artwork up in the performance hall. We’ve never had any issue with items being left there.

Public Viewing
Participating artists get free entry to enjoy the show! Let us know if you’re interested in attending the music!

Pick-Up
Pick-up will be Sunday morning from 8-10am. If you can’t make that, email us to make other arrangements.

Theme
The music being performed will be:

Stravinsky: Fireworks
DeFalla: El Amor Brujo (Ritual Fire Dance Ballet)
Ravel: Introduction and Allegro feat. Mason Morton
Sibelius: Symphony No. 1

We should aim to bring the best art in our libraries, to match the high quality of the performance. That being said, if you have two great pieces and one features a fire or ice theme then that might be a perfect one to choose!

Use the BVAA Online Submission Form to submit for this show.

Volunteers Needed
The BVAA is run by volunteers – please lend a hand! We need volunteers for the following activities:
* Hang the show from 5-6 on Friday
* Take it down at 8:30 on Sunday.

Let us know on your submission form how you’re able to help out. There is a 20% commission on sales – this commission is forgiven for those who help out!

Here’s the official Claflin Hill page with all details on the concert –

https://www.claflinhill.com/symphony-series/

 

DROPOFF DETAILS:

To get to to Milford Town Hall, 52 Main Street from Millbury take 140 S for around 10 miles. Take a slight left on West Street, which becomes Exchange Street. Turn left onto Main Street/MA-16 for about 2 1/2 miles. It’s a tall white steepled building very hard to miss.

There are parking lots on either side of the building as well as street parking.

You may enter by the side entrance where the handicapped ramp is, go in via the ramp and basement entrance and use the elevator to go to the second floor.

Here are a few images from the BVAA art show at the Canal Restaurant on Water Street in Worcester. Stop on by to take a look!

This is an extension of our Macabre show we held here in October 2016.

Today we had an excellent demo by Joe Ray on papermaking and following this we all engaged in a hands-on exercise which was great fun.

The photo’s below show an outline  of the process and our results. This is something I am going to experiment with myself !

 

Bob

 

 

Hi

We had a great reception last night for our ‘Anything Goes’ photography show. I must say that the standard of the entries continues to rise each year and we had many excellent pieces in the show.

Our judge was Pamela Bhatia ( https://artisticimages-ri.com/ ) and she factored in 12 key criteria for selecting the winners:

 

• Impact
• Technical excellence
• Creativity
• Style
• Composition
• Presentation
• Colour balance
• Center of interest
• Lighting
• Subject matter
• technique
• Story telling

Pamela selected the following for awards for the show

 

1st Place-April Brown-Sleigh Ride

2nd Place-Joanne Zeis-Seaside Mist

3rd Place-Dale Hoopingarner-Shibumi

 

Honourable Mentions

Michael Backunas-Midnight Ride

Carol Dandrade-Rose Bud Macro

Carol Frieswick-All Cracked Up

Dale Hoopingarner-Blue Grotto

Al Weems-Amnesty

 

Congratulations to our winners and to everyone who participated. If you get a chance please call-in and see the show, it is well worth it!

 

Bob

 

 

One more day until the deadline for the Anything Goes photography show on Monday January 9th – get your submissions in!

2017 Anything Goes Photography Show

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Here are the artwork items from Bob Evans, Mike Zeis, Carole Plante, Anne McNevin, Sarah Guimond, Bob See, and Lisa Shea at the Canal Restaurant in Worcester from December 2016, after the Macabre show wrapped up.

Our January 2017 meeting is moving from its usual date and time! For January we will be having our monthly meeting on SUNDAY January 22nd from 1:30 to 4pm. This will be a hands-on demonstration of papermaking, hosted by artist Joe Ray.

It’s hands on so please wear clothing that can get messy :). If you have a tarp for a table that would be helpful, too!

You can bring along your own items to include in the paper if you wish. Typical items are flower petals, pine needles, and the like.

As always, our monthly meeting will be held at the:
Northbridge Senior Center
20 Highland Street
Whitinsville, MA 01590

Our monthly meetings are open to the public and are supported in part by grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Here is Joe’s website to learn more about him:

https://www.joeraystudios.com/

Here are a few samples of what handmade paper with inclusions looks like, to get some ideas!

The Blackstone Valley Art Association is sponsoring the “5th Annual Anything Goes Photography Show.”

The show will be held at the Alternatives Gallery, 1 South Main Street, Uxbridge, Mass. Participation is open to the public. Each participant may exhibit three photos and they will be judged for cash prizes. A portion of all sales goes to support the work of Alternatives in the community.

The entry fee for the main show, open to all styles of photography, is $20/3 pieces for members and $30/3 pieces for non-members.

Framed photos can be any size – please contact us first if you plan on bringing anything over 20″ x 30″ in size.

To submit your entries use our BVAA Online Submission Form

Opening reception for the show is Friday, January 13th, 2017 from 4-7pm.

Film Sub-Show
There will be a smaller exhibition of film and other non-digital photos at this show. A separate best of show will be awarded to this section. The entry fee for this is $5 each for up to 3 pieces.

Final deadline for submission details: January 9th, 2017
Drop-off: January 11th, 9-3pm
Pick up: February 27th or 28th, 9-3pm

Note that all photo frames must be properly wired for hanging. No saw-tooth or triangle hangers.

Address any questions via our BVAA Contact Information

Our 2017 Choco l’Art show is the perfect melding of chocolate and art! It’s held at the:
Whitinsville Social Library
17 Church Street
Whitinsville, MA

Submissions
The submission deadline is Monday, February 13th, 2017. 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 Thursday, February 16th from 9am to 2pm.

Public Reception
The reception is on Saturday, February 18th from 9am to 2pm. All are welcome! There’ll be lots of chocolate in all shapes, sizes, and varieties.

Pick-Up
Pick-up for the show is Saturday, February 25th from 9-12 noon.

Prizes
This show has the visitors vote on a “People’s Choice” award. There’s a ribbon plus a cash prize. The amount is based on the number of entries.

Theme
You can do a romantic theme if you’d like, but it’s not required!

Use the BVAA online submission form to submit for this show.

Volunteers Needed
The BVAA is run by volunteers – please lend a hand! We need volunteers for the following activities:
* Hanging the show from noon-2pm on Thu, Feb 16th
* Watching over the reception for time blocks of your choice between 9am and 2pm on Sat, Feb 18th.
* Bringing of chocolate for the chocolate reception (please avoid nuts)
* Take-down of the show from 9-11 on Sat, Feb 25th
Let us know on your submission form how you’re able to help out.

The 2016 winner for this show was Carole Plante with her chocolate lab! Quite appropriate :).

Every two months we rotate the show at the Milford TV Station. The drop-off for the upcoming January – February 2017 show on the theme of “Winter” is Thursday, January 5th from 6-8pm.

This date is also the reception (and take down) for the existing “Small Works” show. The public is welcome and encouraged to attend! It’s a great time to meet the artists, view local art, and learn about the art opportunities in the region.

For participating artists, please bring food or drink to share!

The Milford TV Station is at:
138 South Main Street
Milford, MA

This is a plaza with a D’Angelo’s, a Hair Unlimited Salon, and Milford Hardwood.

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.

If you can’t make it to the party just drop off your works any time during the week that they’re open. Call ahead to check the hours!

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! In general, the items can be any size or shape – Milford has a great hanging system which can accommodate pretty much anything. That being said, for this particular show it’s small works for quick sales!

We hope to see you there – and spread the word!