Category: BVAA Shows and Events

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!

Today’s our BVAA Holiday Christmas Party! Make sure Carol knows you’re coming, if you’re planning on joining us!

Full details:

https://bvaa.org/2015/12/08/2015-holiday-party/

The Blackstone Valley Art Association is sponsoring the “4th 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. Applications and hanging guidelines for the show can be found in the top menu bar of this site. 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.

Opening reception for the show is January 15th, 2016 from 4-7pm.

Image shown is from last year’s second prize winner, Al Weems.

Film Sub-Show
Last year’s educational component to the show was two classes on the use the of the Holga Camera. There will be a smaller exhibition of these and other film 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.

Hands-On Demo
This year’s educational component will be held Tue, Jan. 19th at the Northbridge Senior Center 7-9pm, on the abstracting of photography. This is also open to the public as are all our meetings and classes. Partial funding for our activities comes from Local Cultural Grants.

Address any questions via our BVAA Contact Information

Final deadline for submission details: January 11th, 2016
Drop-off: January 13th, 9-3pm
Pick up: February 26th or February 29th, 9-3pm

Every two months we rotate the show at the Milford TV Station. The drop-off for the upcoming January-February 2016 show on the theme of “Black and White” is Thursday, January 7th from 6-8pm. Note that this is a week later than usual. Usually we do it on the last Thursday of the month, but we are moving it forward a week in this case to avoid New Year’s Eve.

This date is also the reception (and take down) for the existing “Small Works” 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.

Our BVAA 2015 Holiday Party will be on Tuesday, December 15th from 6:30-9pm. This year we’ll be catering the main dinner and then doing pot-luck for dessert. This should help to make cleanup easier.

If you wish to participate in the Yankee present swap, bring a $10 wrapped present for the festivities.

Let Carol F know if you’re planning on attending, so she can get the final headcount!

It’s at the Northbridge Senior Center, as all our meetings are.

Note that we’ll be voting on the proposed new bylaws at the start of the meeting. If you haven’t read them yet, they are in our “About” area.

BVAA members – get your art titles submitted by tonight Mon 12/7 for this weekend’s Milford MA Holiday Pops show –

https://bvaa.org/2015/12/01/claflin-hill-art-show-holiday-pops/