Arts Calendar: Virtual

INSTRUCTOR: THOM WILLIAMS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5 – TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23
(MEETS EVERY TUESDAY FOR 8 WEEKS)
4 – 5:30 P.M.
SVAC Member: $140; Non-member: $170
Ages: 16+
This is a free-form advanced photography class spanning 8 weeks. Every time this is offered it is different BUT every time it will push you into areas of photography you may have never considered exploring. The goal of this course is to keep you growing and can be taken multiple times by students that desire a group learning and critique environment.

When registering choose “Advanced Photography” from the list of 10 classes offered.

The Boynes Emerging Artist Award is an international, independent artist run online award. We provide a platform for talented artists worldwide to showcase and get rewarded for their incredible works.

Emerging artists worldwide are welcome to submit all visual 2D & 3D mediums ie Painting, Drawing, Photography, Mixed Media and Sculpture. There is no set theme. For a detailed look at our Rules and definition of an "emerging artist", please visit our website.

Our 5th Edition brings our 1st Place winner $4,000 USD cash, $250 in art supplies from Blick Art Materials, a published interview, long term access to the BEAA marketing team as well as social & digital marketing. You can find a complete breakdown of our prize pool on our website.


Jurors

Fares Micue
Pavel Sokov
Denisa Prochazka
Iris Scott
Carina Francioso
Miriam Innes
Lorette C Luzajic

Entry Fee [Early Bird 15% OFF]

3 images $45, 5 images $60, 8 images $88,10 images $100

Prize summary:
$7000 in cash prizes, $250 Blick Art Materials, published articles, marketing team

INSTRUCTOR: THOM WILLIAMS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5 – TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23
(MEETS EVERY TUESDAY FOR 8 WEEKS)
4 – 5:30 P.M.
SVAC Member: $140; Non-member: $170
Ages: 16+
This is a free-form advanced photography class spanning 8 weeks. Every time this is offered it is different BUT every time it will push you into areas of photography you may have never considered exploring. The goal of this course is to keep you growing and can be taken multiple times by students that desire a group learning and critique environment.

When registering choose “Advanced Photography” from the list of 10 classes offered.

The Boynes Emerging Artist Award is an international, independent artist run online award. We provide a platform for talented artists worldwide to showcase and get rewarded for their incredible works.

Emerging artists worldwide are welcome to submit all visual 2D & 3D mediums ie Painting, Drawing, Photography, Mixed Media and Sculpture. There is no set theme. For a detailed look at our Rules and definition of an "emerging artist", please visit our website.

Our 5th Edition brings our 1st Place winner $4,000 USD cash, $250 in art supplies from Blick Art Materials, a published interview, long term access to the BEAA marketing team as well as social & digital marketing. You can find a complete breakdown of our prize pool on our website.


Jurors

Fares Micue
Pavel Sokov
Denisa Prochazka
Iris Scott
Carina Francioso
Miriam Innes
Lorette C Luzajic

Entry Fee [Early Bird 15% OFF]

3 images $45, 5 images $60, 8 images $88,10 images $100

Prize summary:
$7000 in cash prizes, $250 Blick Art Materials, published articles, marketing team

INSTRUCTOR: THOM WILLIAMS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5 – TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23
(MEETS EVERY TUESDAY FOR 8 WEEKS)
4 – 5:30 P.M.
SVAC Member: $140; Non-member: $170
Ages: 16+
This is a free-form advanced photography class spanning 8 weeks. Every time this is offered it is different BUT every time it will push you into areas of photography you may have never considered exploring. The goal of this course is to keep you growing and can be taken multiple times by students that desire a group learning and critique environment.

When registering choose “Advanced Photography” from the list of 10 classes offered.

INSTRUCTOR: EMILY HIRTLE
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2 – TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2021 (4 AFTERNOONS)
1 – 3 P.M.
SVAC Member: $160; Non-Member: $195
Learn the fundamentals of painting in gouache–an opaque watercolor. Emily will help you discover essential techniques as you explore different surfaces, brushes and consistencies of paint. All levels. Ages 14 – adult. Scholarships available.

Suggested supplies:
A variety of Ingres toned paper
A block of cold pressed or hot pressed watercolor paper: 11×14 or 11×17
Hohlbein or Windsor & Newton brands of gouache: titanium white, ivory black, yellow ochre, raw sienna, burnt sienna, ultramarine blue, raw umber, burnt umber, alizarin crimson
Masking tape (artist tape)
A plastic palette (rectangular)
Graphite pencil
Kneaded eraser
Two cups for water
Paper towel or some kind of cloth to dry your brushes
A variety of watercolor brushes–rounds and flats–of different sizes

To register by email or phone please contact Erin Kaufman at ekaufman@svac.org or 802-367-1306.

The Boynes Emerging Artist Award is an international, independent artist run online award. We provide a platform for talented artists worldwide to showcase and get rewarded for their incredible works.

Emerging artists worldwide are welcome to submit all visual 2D & 3D mediums ie Painting, Drawing, Photography, Mixed Media and Sculpture. There is no set theme. For a detailed look at our Rules and definition of an "emerging artist", please visit our website.

Our 5th Edition brings our 1st Place winner $4,000 USD cash, $250 in art supplies from Blick Art Materials, a published interview, long term access to the BEAA marketing team as well as social & digital marketing. You can find a complete breakdown of our prize pool on our website.


Jurors

Fares Micue
Pavel Sokov
Denisa Prochazka
Iris Scott
Carina Francioso
Miriam Innes
Lorette C Luzajic

Entry Fee [Early Bird 15% OFF]

3 images $45, 5 images $60, 8 images $88,10 images $100

Prize summary:
$7000 in cash prizes, $250 Blick Art Materials, published articles, marketing team

INSTRUCTOR: THOM WILLIAMS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5 – TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23
(MEETS EVERY TUESDAY FOR 8 WEEKS)
4 – 5:30 P.M.
SVAC Member: $140; Non-member: $170
Ages: 16+
This is a free-form advanced photography class spanning 8 weeks. Every time this is offered it is different BUT every time it will push you into areas of photography you may have never considered exploring. The goal of this course is to keep you growing and can be taken multiple times by students that desire a group learning and critique environment.

When registering choose “Advanced Photography” from the list of 10 classes offered.

Borders Inside and Outside: Poets on Crafting Roots (Routes) -- a poetry panel reading and discussion with poets, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Jake Skeets, and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal who will read and be in conversation together.

Cynthia Dewi Oka is the author of Fire Is Not a Country (Northwestern University Press, 2021), Salvage (Northwestern University Press, 2017), and Nomad of Salt and Hard Water (Thread Makes Blanket, 2016). The recipient of the Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Prize and the Leeway Transformation Award, her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, POETRY, Academy of American Poets, The Rumpus, PANK, Guernica, ESPNW, Hyperallergic, and elsewhere. She has taught creative writing at Bryn Mawr College and is a 2021-2022 Poet in Residence at the Amy Clampitt House in Lenox, MA. She is originally from Bali, Indonesia.

Jake Skeets is the author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, winner of the National Poetry Series, American Book Award, and Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He is the recipient of a 92Y Discovery Prize, a Mellon Projecting All Voices Fellowship, and a Whiting Award. He is from the Navajo Nation and teaches at Diné College.

Vanessa Angélica Villarreal was born in the Rio Grande Valley to Mexican immigrants. She is the author of the award-winning collection Beast Meridian (Noemi Press, Akrilica Series 2017), recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award, a Kate Tufts Discovery Award nomination, and winner of the John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Harpers Bazaar, Oxford American, POETRY, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship and a doctoral candidate at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she is working on a poetry and nonfiction collection while raising her son. Her essay collection, CHUECA, is forthcoming from Tiny Reparations Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in 2023.

The Boynes Emerging Artist Award is an international, independent artist run online award. We provide a platform for talented artists worldwide to showcase and get rewarded for their incredible works.

Emerging artists worldwide are welcome to submit all visual 2D & 3D mediums ie Painting, Drawing, Photography, Mixed Media and Sculpture. There is no set theme. For a detailed look at our Rules and definition of an "emerging artist", please visit our website.

Our 5th Edition brings our 1st Place winner $4,000 USD cash, $250 in art supplies from Blick Art Materials, a published interview, long term access to the BEAA marketing team as well as social & digital marketing. You can find a complete breakdown of our prize pool on our website.


Jurors

Fares Micue
Pavel Sokov
Denisa Prochazka
Iris Scott
Carina Francioso
Miriam Innes
Lorette C Luzajic

Entry Fee [Early Bird 15% OFF]

3 images $45, 5 images $60, 8 images $88,10 images $100

Prize summary:
$7000 in cash prizes, $250 Blick Art Materials, published articles, marketing team

INSTRUCTOR: THOM WILLIAMS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5 – TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23
(MEETS EVERY TUESDAY FOR 8 WEEKS)
4 – 5:30 P.M.
SVAC Member: $140; Non-member: $170
Ages: 16+
This is a free-form advanced photography class spanning 8 weeks. Every time this is offered it is different BUT every time it will push you into areas of photography you may have never considered exploring. The goal of this course is to keep you growing and can be taken multiple times by students that desire a group learning and critique environment.

When registering choose “Advanced Photography” from the list of 10 classes offered.

The Boynes Emerging Artist Award is an international, independent artist run online award. We provide a platform for talented artists worldwide to showcase and get rewarded for their incredible works.

Emerging artists worldwide are welcome to submit all visual 2D & 3D mediums ie Painting, Drawing, Photography, Mixed Media and Sculpture. There is no set theme. For a detailed look at our Rules and definition of an "emerging artist", please visit our website.

Our 5th Edition brings our 1st Place winner $4,000 USD cash, $250 in art supplies from Blick Art Materials, a published interview, long term access to the BEAA marketing team as well as social & digital marketing. You can find a complete breakdown of our prize pool on our website.


Jurors

Fares Micue
Pavel Sokov
Denisa Prochazka
Iris Scott
Carina Francioso
Miriam Innes
Lorette C Luzajic

Entry Fee [Early Bird 15% OFF]

3 images $45, 5 images $60, 8 images $88,10 images $100

Prize summary:
$7000 in cash prizes, $250 Blick Art Materials, published articles, marketing team

INSTRUCTOR: THOM WILLIAMS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5 – TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23
(MEETS EVERY TUESDAY FOR 8 WEEKS)
4 – 5:30 P.M.
SVAC Member: $140; Non-member: $170
Ages: 16+
This is a free-form advanced photography class spanning 8 weeks. Every time this is offered it is different BUT every time it will push you into areas of photography you may have never considered exploring. The goal of this course is to keep you growing and can be taken multiple times by students that desire a group learning and critique environment.

When registering choose “Advanced Photography” from the list of 10 classes offered.

The Boynes Emerging Artist Award is an international, independent artist run online award. We provide a platform for talented artists worldwide to showcase and get rewarded for their incredible works.

Emerging artists worldwide are welcome to submit all visual 2D & 3D mediums ie Painting, Drawing, Photography, Mixed Media and Sculpture. There is no set theme. For a detailed look at our Rules and definition of an "emerging artist", please visit our website.

Our 5th Edition brings our 1st Place winner $4,000 USD cash, $250 in art supplies from Blick Art Materials, a published interview, long term access to the BEAA marketing team as well as social & digital marketing. You can find a complete breakdown of our prize pool on our website.


Jurors

Fares Micue
Pavel Sokov
Denisa Prochazka
Iris Scott
Carina Francioso
Miriam Innes
Lorette C Luzajic

Entry Fee [Early Bird 15% OFF]

3 images $45, 5 images $60, 8 images $88,10 images $100

Prize summary:
$7000 in cash prizes, $250 Blick Art Materials, published articles, marketing team

INSTRUCTOR: THOM WILLIAMS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5 – TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23
(MEETS EVERY TUESDAY FOR 8 WEEKS)
4 – 5:30 P.M.
SVAC Member: $140; Non-member: $170
Ages: 16+
This is a free-form advanced photography class spanning 8 weeks. Every time this is offered it is different BUT every time it will push you into areas of photography you may have never considered exploring. The goal of this course is to keep you growing and can be taken multiple times by students that desire a group learning and critique environment.

When registering choose “Advanced Photography” from the list of 10 classes offered.

The Boynes Emerging Artist Award is an international, independent artist run online award. We provide a platform for talented artists worldwide to showcase and get rewarded for their incredible works.

Emerging artists worldwide are welcome to submit all visual 2D & 3D mediums ie Painting, Drawing, Photography, Mixed Media and Sculpture. There is no set theme. For a detailed look at our Rules and definition of an "emerging artist", please visit our website.

Our 5th Edition brings our 1st Place winner $4,000 USD cash, $250 in art supplies from Blick Art Materials, a published interview, long term access to the BEAA marketing team as well as social & digital marketing. You can find a complete breakdown of our prize pool on our website.


Jurors

Fares Micue
Pavel Sokov
Denisa Prochazka
Iris Scott
Carina Francioso
Miriam Innes
Lorette C Luzajic

Entry Fee [Early Bird 15% OFF]

3 images $45, 5 images $60, 8 images $88,10 images $100

Prize summary:
$7000 in cash prizes, $250 Blick Art Materials, published articles, marketing team

INSTRUCTOR: THOM WILLIAMS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5 – TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23
(MEETS EVERY TUESDAY FOR 8 WEEKS)
4 – 5:30 P.M.
SVAC Member: $140; Non-member: $170
Ages: 16+
This is a free-form advanced photography class spanning 8 weeks. Every time this is offered it is different BUT every time it will push you into areas of photography you may have never considered exploring. The goal of this course is to keep you growing and can be taken multiple times by students that desire a group learning and critique environment.

When registering choose “Advanced Photography” from the list of 10 classes offered.

The Boynes Emerging Artist Award is an international, independent artist run online award. We provide a platform for talented artists worldwide to showcase and get rewarded for their incredible works.

Emerging artists worldwide are welcome to submit all visual 2D & 3D mediums ie Painting, Drawing, Photography, Mixed Media and Sculpture. There is no set theme. For a detailed look at our Rules and definition of an "emerging artist", please visit our website.

Our 5th Edition brings our 1st Place winner $4,000 USD cash, $250 in art supplies from Blick Art Materials, a published interview, long term access to the BEAA marketing team as well as social & digital marketing. You can find a complete breakdown of our prize pool on our website.


Jurors

Fares Micue
Pavel Sokov
Denisa Prochazka
Iris Scott
Carina Francioso
Miriam Innes
Lorette C Luzajic

Entry Fee [Early Bird 15% OFF]

3 images $45, 5 images $60, 8 images $88,10 images $100

Prize summary:
$7000 in cash prizes, $250 Blick Art Materials, published articles, marketing team

INSTRUCTOR: THOM WILLIAMS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5 – TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23
(MEETS EVERY TUESDAY FOR 8 WEEKS)
4 – 5:30 P.M.
SVAC Member: $140; Non-member: $170
Ages: 16+
This is a free-form advanced photography class spanning 8 weeks. Every time this is offered it is different BUT every time it will push you into areas of photography you may have never considered exploring. The goal of this course is to keep you growing and can be taken multiple times by students that desire a group learning and critique environment.

When registering choose “Advanced Photography” from the list of 10 classes offered.

The Boynes Emerging Artist Award is an international, independent artist run online award. We provide a platform for talented artists worldwide to showcase and get rewarded for their incredible works.

Emerging artists worldwide are welcome to submit all visual 2D & 3D mediums ie Painting, Drawing, Photography, Mixed Media and Sculpture. There is no set theme. For a detailed look at our Rules and definition of an "emerging artist", please visit our website.

Our 5th Edition brings our 1st Place winner $4,000 USD cash, $250 in art supplies from Blick Art Materials, a published interview, long term access to the BEAA marketing team as well as social & digital marketing. You can find a complete breakdown of our prize pool on our website.


Jurors

Fares Micue
Pavel Sokov
Denisa Prochazka
Iris Scott
Carina Francioso
Miriam Innes
Lorette C Luzajic

Entry Fee [Early Bird 15% OFF]

3 images $45, 5 images $60, 8 images $88,10 images $100

Prize summary:
$7000 in cash prizes, $250 Blick Art Materials, published articles, marketing team

INSTRUCTOR: THOM WILLIAMS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5 – TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23
(MEETS EVERY TUESDAY FOR 8 WEEKS)
4 – 5:30 P.M.
SVAC Member: $140; Non-member: $170
Ages: 16+
This is a free-form advanced photography class spanning 8 weeks. Every time this is offered it is different BUT every time it will push you into areas of photography you may have never considered exploring. The goal of this course is to keep you growing and can be taken multiple times by students that desire a group learning and critique environment.

When registering choose “Advanced Photography” from the list of 10 classes offered.

INSTRUCTOR: EMILY HIRTLE
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2 – TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2021 (4 AFTERNOONS)
1 – 3 P.M.
SVAC Member: $160; Non-Member: $195
Learn the fundamentals of painting in gouache–an opaque watercolor. Emily will help you discover essential techniques as you explore different surfaces, brushes and consistencies of paint. All levels. Ages 14 – adult. Scholarships available.

Suggested supplies:
A variety of Ingres toned paper
A block of cold pressed or hot pressed watercolor paper: 11×14 or 11×17
Hohlbein or Windsor & Newton brands of gouache: titanium white, ivory black, yellow ochre, raw sienna, burnt sienna, ultramarine blue, raw umber, burnt umber, alizarin crimson
Masking tape (artist tape)
A plastic palette (rectangular)
Graphite pencil
Kneaded eraser
Two cups for water
Paper towel or some kind of cloth to dry your brushes
A variety of watercolor brushes–rounds and flats–of different sizes

To register by email or phone please contact Erin Kaufman at ekaufman@svac.org or 802-367-1306.

The Boynes Emerging Artist Award is an international, independent artist run online award. We provide a platform for talented artists worldwide to showcase and get rewarded for their incredible works.

Emerging artists worldwide are welcome to submit all visual 2D & 3D mediums ie Painting, Drawing, Photography, Mixed Media and Sculpture. There is no set theme. For a detailed look at our Rules and definition of an "emerging artist", please visit our website.

Our 5th Edition brings our 1st Place winner $4,000 USD cash, $250 in art supplies from Blick Art Materials, a published interview, long term access to the BEAA marketing team as well as social & digital marketing. You can find a complete breakdown of our prize pool on our website.


Jurors

Fares Micue
Pavel Sokov
Denisa Prochazka
Iris Scott
Carina Francioso
Miriam Innes
Lorette C Luzajic

Entry Fee [Early Bird 15% OFF]

3 images $45, 5 images $60, 8 images $88,10 images $100

Prize summary:
$7000 in cash prizes, $250 Blick Art Materials, published articles, marketing team

INSTRUCTOR: THOM WILLIAMS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5 – TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23
(MEETS EVERY TUESDAY FOR 8 WEEKS)
4 – 5:30 P.M.
SVAC Member: $140; Non-member: $170
Ages: 16+
This is a free-form advanced photography class spanning 8 weeks. Every time this is offered it is different BUT every time it will push you into areas of photography you may have never considered exploring. The goal of this course is to keep you growing and can be taken multiple times by students that desire a group learning and critique environment.

When registering choose “Advanced Photography” from the list of 10 classes offered.

VSC will host an artist talk with Leeza Meksin on Zoom. This event is free and open to the public. Leeza Meksin is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist working in painting, installation, public art and multiples. Born in the former Soviet Union, she immigrated to the United States with her family in 1989. Her work investigates parallels between conventions of painting, architecture and our bodies.

Meksin has created site-specific installations for The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (2019-20), The Brooklyn Academy of Music (2018-19), National Academy of Design (2018), The Uptown Triennial at The Lenfest Center for the Arts (2017), Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (2016), The Kitchen, NYC (2015), BRIC Media Arts, Brooklyn (2015), Regina Rex (2014, 2010), Brandeis University (2014), the former Donnell branch of the New York Public Library (2011), and in a National Endowment for the Arts funded project in New Haven, CT for Artspace (2012). In 2015 Meksin received the emerging artist grant from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, and in 2019 was awarded an artist residency at The Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. Her work has been featured in Bomb, The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Chicago Tribune, and The Village Voice, among other publications. In 2013 Meksin co-founded Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run gallery and curatorial collective in Brooklyn that she continues to codirect. Meksin received a MFA from The Yale School of Art, a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA/MA in Comparative Literature from The University of Chicago. From 2015-2021 Meksin taught in the Visual Arts program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where for three years she was the Director of the Graduate program as well as the head of the New Genres concentration. In 2021 she joined the faculty at Cornell University in the College of Architecture, Art, Planning (AAP).

meksin.com