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!

On Saturday, March 5, 2016 from 7:30-10pm 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.

Deadline to submit your titles and sizes via the online form is Monday, February 29th. This gives us time to determine how many panels will be needed. There’s no fee to participate.

BVAA Online Submission Form

Drop-Off for the show will be Thursday, March 3rd and Friday, March 4th from 4-6pm. Everything will then be set up Friday night so it’s ready to go for Saturday. Pick-up will be Sunday morning from 8-10am. If you can’t make that, email us to make other arrangements.

We need volunteers to help us hang the show from 5-6 on Friday and to take it down at 8:30 on Sunday. Please let us know if you’re available. There is a 20% commission on sales which will be forgiven for those who help out!

The music being performed on Sat the 5th will be:

Featuring “I –Squared” The Two Tenors
Italian and Irish Vocal Selections
Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien
Hardiman: Lord of the Dance

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 an Irish or Italian theme then that might be a perfect one to choose!

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

https://www.claflinhill.com/symphony-series/2016/3/5/the-irish-italian-summit-italian-and-irish-vocal-selections

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 bldg. 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. Anne will have signs up around the building indicating where these are.

Congratulations to Carole Plante for winning the People’s Choice award at the Choco l’Art show! The voters chose her piece “Yellow Ribbon.”

Every two months we rotate the show at the Milford TV Station. The drop-off for the upcoming March-April 2016 show on the theme of “Green” is Thursday, February 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 “Black and White”” 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 please use the online submission form to indicate what you’re bringing and also label the back of each piece with its information. This show is for BVAA members only and is free to participate in. Most artists bring in three items. They can be any size or shape – Milford has a great hanging system which can accommodate pretty much anything.

UPDATE: The theme for this show has been expanded to include all Spring topics. Please bring by additional artwork for the show!

Our 2016 Choco l’Art show is the perfect melding of chocolate and art!

The FREE public event is at the Whitinsville Social Library at 17 Church Street in Whitinsville, MA. It’s from 9am to 2pm. All are welcome!

Click for the full sized image.

Thanks to the Uxbridge Times for covering our “Anything Goes” Photography Show! Click for full size.

Photos – https://bvaa.org/past-events/past-events-2016/past-events-2016-anything-goes-photography-show/ 

Reminder, the drop-off for the upcoming Choco l’Art show at the Whitinsville Social Library is this Thursday 2/11/16 from 9am to 2pm. Please swing by with your artwork then!

Full details:

Choco l’Art Art Show 2016

 

Reminder! Get your submissions in by TONIGHT for the upcoming Choco l’Art show at the Whitinsville Social Library! The opening reception is Saturday, February 13th. Full details:

Choco l’Art Art Show 2016

 

Last call for BVAA members – get submissions in TONIGHT Monday February 1st 2016 at midnight for the Claflin Hill art show this weekend – full details here –

https://bvaa.org/2016/01/11/claflin-hill-from-the-heart/

From Carol F:

I am looking for volunteers to help with 2 plein-air events I have grants for.

One in Sutton, late Spring to early summer and one for Daniels farm when they have the Claflin concert.

Once again the Blackstone Valley Art Association is doing a joint show with the Franklin Art Association at the Premier Image Gallery in Ashland, MA. The address is:

290 Eliot St #15D, Ashland, MA 01721

You can submit up to two works for this show. Wall art needs to be framed or gallery wrapped and wired for hanging. The show takes paintings, photos, and sculptures.

Prices are $8 for 1 piece or $15 for two.

As with all BVAA judged shows, you cannot submit something to this show which has previously been entered into a judged BVAA show.

Please use the online submission form to make your entries.

Drop-off is:
Thu Mar 10th 9:30-4
Fri Mar 11th 9:30-4
Sat Mar 12th 9:30-2

UPDATE!! Extended drop-off on Mon Mar 14th from 9:30-4.

The reception is open to the public and is on Thursday, March 24th from 6-8pm. Please bring munchies to share.

Pick up is on May 25th; call for hours. Don’s number is 508-881-4730. He doesn’t have a website so the phone is the best way to reach him.

Let us know if you have any questions!