Category: BVAA Shows and Events

Our February 16, 2016 monthly meeting will be all about creativity and feedback!

February often gets snowed out so we’re playing it casual this month. Bring along any paintings, sculptures, photos, or other works of art that you’re creating. We’ll offer feedback and suggestions! If you’re a photographer you can bring prints, laptops, cellphones, or whatever else you want. If you bring a USB thumb drive someone will be able to show your images off for you.

We can also work on artist’s statements for anyone who would like feedback on theirs.

Our monthly meetings are held at the Northbridge Senior Center at 20 Highland Street, Whitinsville, MA from 6:30-9pm on the third Tuesday of every month.

We’d love to see you there! Weather permitting, of course.

Invite your family and friends! The 2016 Anything Goes photography show reception is coming up on Friday, January 15th, 2016 from 4-7pm!

This fun photography show is held at the Alterntives Uxbridge location at 1 South Main Street, Uxbridge from 4-7pm. There’ll be refreshments served!

We’ll have photography of all shapes and sizes. Digital photography. Film photography. Plastic camera photography. Cyanotypes. Come learn more about all of the styles of photography and be inspired!

Then mark your calendars for our open-to-the-public session on photography on Tuesday, January 19th. We’ll focus in on abstract and night photography and answer any questions you might have about your camera!

Featured image is by Al Weems, who won second prize in last year’s show. That’s just a taste of what you’ll see this Friday!

We’ll host a hands-on printmaking session this coming Sunday, January 17th, 2016 from 2-4pm. It will either be at the Northbridge senior center or nearby, we’re still working that out. We were inspired by the Alternatives Printmaking opening reception last Friday and are preparing for the upcoming open-call printmaking show at the Attleboro Museum!

For even more inspiration, take a look through all the photos from November 2015’s demo with printmaster Randy LeSage –

You can also look through our photos of our printmaking session on January 10th –

January 10th Printmaking session

Here’s an image that Bob Evans made at that session!

Let us know if you’re interested in joining us, so we can plan for the number of people!

We’ll have Kindle and print copies of the official Gelli book available for reading. Here’s a sample from it – it has great examples and instructions!

It’s the last call for our upcoming Anything Goes photography show! The show is open to all adults of all levels of photography.

We have two halves of this show. One half is open to anything and everything photography related. The other half is focused on film photography – anything from pinhole cameras to Holgas to 35mm to cyanotypes. Enter one or both aspects of the show!

Deadline is Monday, January 11th, 2016 at midnight. Make sure you get your online submissions in by then!

Photo shown is last year’s second prize winner by Al Weems.

Full details:

4th Annual Anything Goes Photography Show

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, February 6th 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 1st. 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, February 4th and Friday, February 5th 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 6th will be:

Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet
Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet
Hanson: Symphony No. 2, “The Romantic”

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 romantic 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/2016/2/6/from-the-heart

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.

Our 2016 Choco l’Art show is the perfect melding of chocolate and art! It’s held at the Whitinsville Social Library at 17 Church Street in Whitinsville, MA.

The submission deadline is Monday, February 8th. There’s a $5 fee for up to 3 works. It’s open to all BVAA members.

The drop-off for Choco l’Art is Thursday, February 11th from 9am to 2pm.

The reception is on Saturday, February 13th from 9am to 2pm.

Pick-up for the show is Saturday, February 20th from 9-12 noon.

This show has the visitors vote on a “People’s Choice” award.

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

Use the online submission form to submit for this show.

Our 2015 winner was a snowscape by Pam Siderewicz –

UPDATE:

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

Our monthly meeting for January 2016 is a presentation of both abstract and night photography techniques. The session will be on Tuesday, January 19th and led by Bob Evans and Judy Belben. Our meetings run from 6:30-9:00pm at the Northbridge Senior Center at 20 Highland Street in Whitinsville, MA.

This presentation is supported in part by grants and the public is welcome to attend.

Bring your cameras to get some hands-on experience!

To see some of Bob’s abstract work, take a look at this gallery from the October 2015 Uber show –

https://bvaa.org/past-events/past-events-2015/past-events-2015-uber-cafe-oct-abstract/

We all had great fun at the printmaking workshop this afternoon, see gallery below.
Few things that we learned
-Newspaper, matte photo paper and cyanotypes didn’t work out too well
-Letters will print mirror image!!
-Don’t put too much paint on the Gelli pad
-Colored paper works great

Lisa, Kathie, Sheila and Bob

 

Here’s the photos and video from the November 2014 printmaking demo with Randy LeSage –

2015 – Past Events – Randy LeSage Demo

 

Today’s the day! Sunday January 10th 2016 – join us for a fun printmaking session! Hands on, 2-4pm. Here’s all the details:

https://bvaa.org/2016/01/07/hands-on-printmaking-session/

Samples from the book we’re using:

Bob Evans has graciously offered up his home as a location for a hands-on printmaking session this coming Sunday, January 10th, 2016 from 2-4pm. We will be inspired by the Alternatives Printmaking opening reception on Friday and then see what we can do with our own two hands!

For even more inspiration, take a look through all the photos from November 2015’s demo with printmaster Randy LeSage –

Let us know if you’re interested in joining us, so we can plan for the number of people!

We’ll have Kindle and print copies of the official Gelli book available for reading. Here’s a sample from it – it has great examples and instructions!