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

Pick up your artwork and/or bring new work for hanging at Katherine’s Hair Design, 695 Main Street, Manchester, CT. Your work must be ready to hang. Don't forget to bring a waiver.

This is a wonderful gallery for MAA members to sell your work within our community and Kathy is looking forward to representing even more of our artists.  Please contact Sara Reid if you need other information regarding this venue.

Kathy Kamerer is hosting a “Meet and Greet The Artists” reception Thursday, March 8,6 - 7:30 pm at her salon: Katherine’s Hair Design, 695 Main Street, Manchester, CT. Everyone is invited- bring your family and friends.

The new exhibit at the hospital gallery will begin March 15. This is a juried show. The drop off will be March 15th from 4:00-6:00 pm. Entry fees are $10.00 for the first piece and $5.00 for each additional piece. There will be monetary prizes for 1st,2nd.3rd and honorable mention. There is no theme. See the members page to print a waiver.

The reception will be March 22nd. Manchester Memorial Hospital is at 71 Haynes Street in Manchester. Viewing hours are normal hospital hours.

Please contact Sara Reid or call her at- 860-573-1583 if; you need more information. .

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.

More details are on the application form. See the members page to print a waiver.

Figure Drawing March 7 (6-9) at Gallery East in Manchester - contact Sara Reid (860) 573-1583

Friends of the Agawam Public Library Open Juried Photography Show

Free Films at MCC

Our Natural World: 16th Annual Photography Contest - Glastonbury Audubon Center

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 ead the full article about Nancy here.

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 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).