The AVA Gallery and Arts Center has three exhibitions coming up that you’ll want to get marked on your calendar.

On Aug. 14 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., “Natasha Wein: If These Feet Could Fly” is being held on Google Meets. 

“In 2019, Natasha Wein was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome — a connective tissue disorder that ravaged her health, injured her spine, and took away the use of her hands. So she taped paper to the floor and learned to paint with her feet. Then, in 2024, while working on this very collection, she was struck by a car and sustained a traumatic brain injury. If These Feet Could Fly is what emerged anyway.

”This collection of foot-made paintings doesn't just document survival — it asks the harder questions: How do you live a meaningful life when wounded beyond repair? How do you grieve who you used to be, and learn to love whoever you're becoming?

Through paint and paper on the floor, Natasha resurrects what remains, mourns what's gone, and lets her work reshape her into something whole — or at least, something legible,” the event description reads.

From Aug. 20-27, view over 120 works from New England artists during AVA’s 2026 10x10= AVA Silent Auction and Fundraiser.

“We'll host a silent auction and social hour on August 28 where you can meet the artists, bid on and purchase their work, and celebrate AVA's remarkable community of support,” the event description read in part.

On Sept. 4, Steve Arcone will be in the galleries talking about his exhibition, “Icescapes in the Abstract: Images from New Hampshire Ponds” from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

“Steve Arcone merges science and art by using landscape macro-photography to capture the beauty of small-scale natural scientific phenomena and thus, to evoke subjective interpretations of them. Steve seeks abstract-appearing structural compositions, usually containing clues to the actual setting for the unfamiliar viewer. Inspired by his career researching and subsurface imaging Antarctic and Alaskan snow and ice, his main year-to-year specialty is cyclically occurring pond ice undergoing change during mid fall to early spring. The compositional motifs he mainly seeks are star-like structures grown from ice seeds on vegetation, smaller scale structures within them, and their change under stress from sunlight, temperature changes and gravity. The blue, silver and grey tones of ice are often enhanced by their contrast with the enduring and underlying fall vegetative coloration. His other ongoing macro-imaging projects are woodland brook-bottom sediments as seen through flowing water, structures within spider web strands, and the laminar flow of oil on water,” the description read. 

View all upcoming and current exhibitions and learn more about AVA here.