Please send your newsworthy articles/info/pictures, etc. to Terri Butler at hwbutler1@att.net. The deadline is September 1st for a September 15th newsletter.

Members are invited to participate in the Annual Town Hall Art & Photography Show to be held from Thursday, April 5 to Thursday, May 31 in the Manchester Town Hall Lobby, 41 Center Street Manchester, CT. The opening reception is Friday, April 13, 2012 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Please pick up your work from this show on May 31st from 10:30am to 12:30.

MAA is collaborating with Cheney Hall's Little Theater of Manchester in a celebration of women through MAA's art and LTM's production of The Vagina Monologues. MAA has been asked to provide artwork to be on exhibit at Cheney Hall during the run of their play June 8th - 24th. The theme for the exhibition is artwork that either evokes womanhood or the style of a famous woman painter/photographer.

Twelve pieces of artwork will be selected to be displayed on easels in the Grand Hall during the run of the play. You do NOT have to have your own easel to participate. If you have a display easel you can lend us for the month of June
please let Carolyn know (860-643-9310) as soon as possible. Artwork that is submitted and not selected for display upstairs in Cheney Hall will be hung downstairs where it will be seen by theater patrons during the show's intermission. Hundreds of people touring Cheney Hall during Heritage Day (June 9th) will also see our artwork.

For your entries:
Framed or unframed (unframed canvas with a museum wrap, i.e. no visible staples on the sides) can be submitted. The work should not be more than 36" x 48" and should be able to sit securely on an easel. Any medium is acceptable. Artwork can be for sale or not. Artists should write a brief "Artist's Statement" regarding their work. The statements will be included in an insert in the playbill and displayed with the pieces.

Drop-off for artwork is Monday, June 4th between 4 and 6 pm at Cheney Hall, 177 Hartford Road, Manchester. If you are unable to make this time please call Carolyn Gimbrone (860-643-9310) and we will make arrangements to bring your artwork to Cheney Hall for you. Gena Glickman, President of MCC, has graciously agreed to judge our entries. Gena is an artist with an undergraduate degree in sculptural art. Please fill-out the special entry form for this exhibit. The standard waiver must also be submitted. Any questions concerning this exhibit should be directed to Carolyn Gimbrone (860-643-9310).

Member Patricia Trapp will be doing a pastel demo at Woodland Gardens on June 7th from 5-7pm. Starting in May and running through June, Woodland Gardens is planning a series of events on Thursdays during the early evening hours. If you would like to share your artwork with the community, and f or more details please contact (Woodland Gardens) Pat at: 860-643-8474.

Connecticut Forest & Park Association's 2012 Photo Contest - An amateur digital photo contest open to members and the public.

Free Films at MCC

Events at Real Art Ways

Nancy's oil painting, “One Fine Day”, was selected for the cover of the Reminder Gold Pages’ new Manchester/Vernon/South Windsor/Stafford directory, which is now being distributed to area homes and businesses.

Congratulations to Nancy - you can read the full article about Nancy here.

MAA offers scholarships to qualifying applicants. Read a description and print an application for the 2010 - 2011 academic year.

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Children and their parents might visit displays of local artist's work at MAA exhibits. They might have an ART HUNT to find memorial statues, building facades, cemetery sculptures, Cheney artworks in Town Hall, Lincoln Center and Mary Cheney Library and The Homestead, and find 5 "Art of the Month" paintings at banks and libraries.

Ongoing exhibits by the 61 year old Manchester Art Association are at The Gallery at Manchester Memorial Hospital. Special shows are often at Cheney Hall in the Silk Room Gallery on the lower level (which has a framed piece of Cheney silk); in January, a special exhibit at Town Hall and exhibits at Manchester Community College in their gallery and hallways (many in Town have never seen the modern architecture of MCC or the campus.).

One of the stated purposes of the Manchester Art Association is "to create and foster interest in all phases of artistic expression". What a lovely day it would be for parents to spend time with their children LISTENING and sharing responses to ART. These are just a few suggestions where parents and children can share an artistic experience right here in Manchester!

Wadsworth Athenum in Hartford. You know the Atheneum is free on Saturday morning and parking on the street is too then, but double check!

The new New Britain Art Museum...very kid friendly; good first museum experience, with a nice big park within a safe, pleasant walk to blow off energy in or keep younger siblings happy in...
Their website has an interesting timeline that shows you what they have starting with the colonial period.

Benton Art Museum at UCONN; gift store has interesting stuff, too, and occasional sales! FREE

Natural History Museum at UCONN has ancient Pre-columbian pottery, and a full size Algonkian bark house with artifacts, and a cool computer art thing (also has lots of science stuff like a bee hive where the bees go outside through a glass tube ( you get to watch them through glass) and insect and mineral collections and, and, and...it is FREE (although a little donation is always welcome) Check to see museum still exists...funding issues were mentioned.

The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at Mansfield (the old Training Center campus); world famous collection of Bill Baird; awesome resource (probably free).