Annual Spring Show

The show will run from Friday, February 17 through Saturday March 17, 2012. This first show of the season in the second floor Cunningham Gallery and first floor Auditorium Gallery will start with an opening on Friday, Feb 17 from 5-7 pm.

If you are interested in submitting your work, please note: Each artist may submit two pieces in any medium, and 2 shrink-wrapped, matted pieces of art for the floor portfolio. The entry fee is $25 per person. The sales commission is 30%.

You may bring your artwork to the Center beginning Tues. February 7 through Sat. Feb. 11. After the exhibit, your work should be picked up from Tuesday, March 20 through Saturday, March 24. Please mark this on your calendar.

Download the entry form here.

Water Soluble Oil Painting Classes
by Betty Glass

Betty Glass is offering an 8 week painting class using water soluble oils at the Jaffrey Civic Center beginning Wednesday, January 25 and running through March 14 from 1-4 pm. (Bring a snack!) This class is open to any level painter, and encourages all to enjoy the process. The emphasis of subject matter will be with still lifes and landscapes.

Betty has been a painting teacher in watercolors, oils and now her favorite passion, water soluble oils for more years than she wishes to share, but it’s easily over 35.

Call 532-6527 or e-mail to register. The cost is $30 a class. There will be a minimum of 4 students for this to run, so please sign up early and get the materials list.

Autumn Show Multi-Media Winners

Voted by the visiting populous during the Annual Area Autumn Art Exhibit from November 18 through December 17, 2011, the Jaffrey Civic Center announces the winners left to right are: Priscilla Mavrikis Walker of Gardner, MA holding her 1st place winner, an acrylic painting, “Tooko, My Adventurous Kitty”, Ramona Johnson of Jaffrey holding her Honorable Mention “Raku Fish”, and Kathy John of Rindge holding her 2nd place fiber art, “The Guardian”.

 

Autumn Show Photography Winners

Voted by the visiting populous during the Annual Area Autumn Art Exhibit from November 18 through December 17, 2011, the Jaffrey Civic Center announces the winners of the photography portion of the show, left to right are: Jim McKnight of Leominster, MA holding his Honorable Mention photograph, “Ox Bow Wetlands”, Shirley Chodin of Rindge holding her 2nd place image, “Earth & Sky Concerto”, and Jane Wing of Hollis, NH holding her 1st place photograph, “What’s Out There?”.

Painting Exhibit by Joan Barrows

The Jaffrey Civic Center is pleased to announce an exhibit of watercolor and oil paintings by Joan Barrows will be on view in the first floor Display Cases until February 9.

“For me, thinking about, involving myself in, and creating art, always just felt right. Not that I've been particularly confident doing so but I've always received encouragement from those close to me.

“Since graduating from the University of Hartford with a degree in black and white photography I've allowed a myriad of distractions be my excuses for not doing more art. While raising 4 children and tending our small farm, watercolor and photography have been my primary mediums for the last 35 years. While not requiring large chunks of time and complicated involvement, these mediums have been utilitarian and comfortable.

“Over the last year I've taken the leap into oil painting. This has been a scary, challenging, frustrating and exciting, fulfilling and inspirational adventure. It's been a year of exploration. Already I am seeing an evolution in my work that is likely influenced by my attraction to the simplicity in monochrome (black and white photography).

“I've settled into an organized studio and doing art nearly every day and when I'm succeeding I feel like a little girl, roll playing with the most wonderful toys and living the most perfect fantasy. It's been a long process that is just beginning to bring me to trust my ability and question less my decisions. At 56 years old, I'm realizing what I'm meant to do.

 

 

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