Cheney Hall Exhibit opens Sunday November 2: Camelot
MAA will display artwork at the gallery inside Cheney Hall beginning November 2. The art will hang for the duration of the show in the Silk Room and will follow a theme of love in Camelot..

Please drop off artwork between 11:00 and 11:30 am on November 2.
5th Members’ Art & Craft Exhibit - October 1 - October 30 - List of Prize Winners
MAA’s 5th Members’ Art & Craft Exhibit will be held in the Friend’s Room of the South Windsor Public Libary.
An opening reception will be held Sunday, October 5, from 2:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. Cash prizes and award ribbons will be given at this time. Family and friends are welcome! The reception is open the public.

Library hours are Sun 1 – 4:30 pm, Mon – Thurs 9 am – 9 pm, Fri & Sat 9 am – 4:30 pm.
View a list of the prize winners.
Call for Artists: Chaulk the Walk - Saturday Oct 25, 11:30 to 1:30
Join in the fun in Center Park, downtown Manchester on Saturday Oct 25, 11:30 to 1:30. Sponsored by the Manchester Arts Commission "Chaulk the Walk" features free chaulk, cider and goodies.

Just show up and you will be given some chaulk to create a work of art on the side walk - a Fall theme would be great, but use your imagination. This event is open to all ages and it's FREE!
Exhibit at Manchester Memorial Hospital
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. 
Plein Air Event in Vernon - Aug. 17th at Valley Falls in Vernon
Dear Manchester Art Association

We wanted to let your members know about a plein air event at Valley Falls Farm in Vernon on August 17th. Please forward this msg to any artist who may be interested in participating. The day will end with a reception and auction. Artists may also sell other works.

Valley Falls Farm, located at the corner of Valley Falls Road and Bolton Road in Vernon, is the most picturesque corner in Vernon - a lovely place to spend a summer day.

More details are provided:
1. The invitation
2. The form to complete if an artist would like to participate
3. A photo of Valley Falls Farm

Please contact:

Ann Letendre
Friends of Valley Falls
860-875-4623
Scholarship Information Available
MAA offers scholarships to qualifying applicants. Read a description and print an application for the 2008 - 2009 academic year.
fyi...Local art resources in and around Manchester
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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).