the Manchester Arts Commission presents The Arts in the Evening on June 30, 2010 from 6:30 pm - 9:00. Events held this evening include Celebration of the Arts, the Arts Commission's Hall of Fame and MAA’s 18th Annual Members' Art Exhibit. Events will be held in the Newspace Gallery and the SBM Charitable Foundation Auditorium Rotunda of the Manchester Community College.

All events are free and open to the public, and include a complimentary reception.                   

MAA's 18th annual Member’s Exhibit will be held at Mancester Community College from June 30 thru August 20, 2010. The show will be in the Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery. The opening reception will be held Wednesday, June 30, 2010 from 6:30 - 9:00 pm. The public is invited to attend. Light refreshments will be served.                         

MAA's first photography contest will be held in September. This is a themed contest and will feature black and white photography. View the flyer for this contest and start shooting now!                             

MAA will now be presenting the annual craft fair held at Manchester Community College, Great Path Academy. This year's fair will be held Saturday, October 30, 2010 10 am - 4 pm. Applications are now being considered.

Join us Monday mornings to enjoy painting in the great outdoors.  See our schedule of dates and places. Call Betty Rousseau (860)643-1173 or Linda Lilling (860)633-5474 for more information. 

Members of the Manchester Art Assoc. created and installed an amazing trompe l’oeil mural that spans the Main Street alleyway between the Cheney Block building and Heritage Place. The mural depicts an ornate wrought iron gate with flanking topiary. The mural beautifies a space that is awaiting further construction repairs and provides a lovely piece of art for passers-by to enjoy.
Thank you to: artists Nancy J. McIntire, Lenore Vyskoeil and Veronique Fournier-Wynne; project coordinator, Chris O’Brien; and installer par excellence, Steve Sottile and his wife, Lynn.

MAA members' work is exhibited in an ongoing display at the gallery on the first floor of Manchester Memorial Hospital at 71 Haynes Street in Manchester. Viewing hours are normal hospital hours. 

Please contact Veronique at vero_art@cox.net if you need other information regarding this exhibit.

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 53 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).