New Hampshire Exhibition

Through December 30: AVA Members’ Holiday Exhibition fills the galleries with fine art and handmade crafts made by artists from New Hampshire and Vermont. Holiday Open House, Saturday, December 6, 11a.m.–7 p.m.: Tour three stories of their historic mill building and state-of-the-art contemporary sculptural studies center; activities for the whole family! Opening January 16: Eva Strum Gross, Juni Van Dyke, and Rachel Bernsen: Novel Formats, scheduled and ticketed performances which engage with a proposed theme and choreographic structures, integrated into a visual art experience.

September 5–October 31: Finding Home: Portraits and Memories of Immigrants, Becky Field. Reception: Friday, September 5. Artist talk: Saturday, September 6. A compelling photography exhibition showcasing the diverse journeys of immigrants across New Hampshire. Photography that captures the vibrant lives and stories of immigrants seeking safety, education, work, and freedom.

Ongoing: Visual Kinship explores how photography defines, challenges, and reimagines the concept of family. Across diverse historical and contemporary works, the exhibition examines how images reflect and disrupt family structures shaped by colonialism, migration, transnational adoption, and queer intimacies. Opening September 6: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Making Colors in Europe, 1400–1800 examines artistic production in the early modern period through the lens of its distinctive colors; recipes for pigments, dyes, and glazes were often closely guarded secrets and critical to the value of a work of art.

Contemporary fine New England art and photography in a 1780 farmhouse. Through November 11: A Place for the Sacred: Four Artists Reflect Upon A New & Difficult World. Sunday, November 3, 4 p.m.: Closing Arguments & Poetry Reading. Individual and group fall and winter workshops in italic calligraphy, nature cards/journals and raised and tooled gold leaf.