Diamond Valley Arts Society Inc.

Calendar of Events

2024

Updated Sept

Here is a summary of all our current events.

Our workshops and classes are run by experienced and highly skilled tutors (lots of them are professional teachers), very reasonably priced, and cover all skill levels (beginner to advanced).

There is more information on our Timetable and Workshops page, please contact the tutors for all further info or email us on admin@dvartsociety.com.au

 

  • School holiday program

See Edendale Community Environmental Farm Events page on their webpage. we run the program every school holidays

– DVAS’s Spring Art Show

DATES: Sat 9th – Sun 10th November

2023

Updated October

Here is a summary of all our current events.

Our workshops and classes are run by experienced and highly skilled tutors (lots of them are professional teachers), very reasonably priced, and cover all skill levels (beginner to advanced). Please contact the tutors for all further info on admin@dvartsociety.com.au

– DVAS’s Spring Art Show

DATES: Sat 21 – Sun 22 October

– Series of classes: Introduction to Geli-Printing

Tutor: Jo Seymour (please refer to flyer emailed to members and published on the Facebook page)

– Series of classes: Loose Portraiture

Tutor: Jo Seymour (please refer to flyer emailed to members and published on the Facebook page)

– Workshop: The story of Pre-Raphaelites: Learn the history and create your own artwork in Pre-Raphaelites style

DATE: Sat 14 Oct 2023

Tutor: Anna Madyarova

– Workshop: The story of Art Nouveau: Learn the history and create your own artwork in Art Nouveau style

DATE: Sun 29 Oct 2023

Tutor: Anna Madyarova

– Workshop: The story of Art Deco: Learn the history and create your own artwork in Art Deco style

DATE: Sat 25 Nov 2023

Tutor: Anna Madyarova

– DVAS Monthly Sunday workshop Group

Dates in 2023:

Oct – Sun 8 Oct

Nov – Sun 12 Nov

Dec – Sun 10 Dec

Convener: Anna Madyarova

 

DVAS’s Spring 2023 Paint the Farm Day will run jointly with Thou Art Mum society

Sat 28 Oct 2023

Convener: Anna Madyarova

 

– We also have professional art teachers as members who you can contact for art lessons:

Jo Armstrong running regular beginner drawing and painting classes on Thurs nights.  Please contact Jo Seymour or Anna Madyarova for further information.

Ann Tamm runs art lessons for children from her studio locally, please feel free to email her on at@anntamm.com for more details.

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2022

October 

DVAS will be holding its Annual art show.  Watch this space for updates on date and times.

April

DVAS will have our rooms open and some of our art on display at the Eltham Jazz festival on April 9th.  This is being held on the grounds of the Edendale Community Farm, however is an Eltham Council event and is ticketed – go to their webpage to book an entry ticket.

March

International Flower and Garden Show – March 30 – April 3rd. It was a great event, and we had over 170 paintings on display and we sold 30 paintings.  Congratulations to those who sold, and thanks you to all whom contributed.  Our volunteer teams are fabulous, they invested many hours to setup, supervise each showing day, and then close down and pack up.

March 13 to 14 – A gelli-printing workshop will be held at our rooms over both days, run by Julie V-D.  for further information contact her on 0408 552432

2021

Cancelled – May 30th – Edendale is hosting a ‘Celebrating the Platypus in the Diamond Creek’ day on Sunday 30th May.  11:00 – 4:00.  all are welcome for a jam-packed day of family fun.  DVAS will be taking part and offering arty-farty activities such as pebble pal painting, clay play, drawing and colouring in.  We will also have some of our artists onsite doing some demonstrations on what they love to do, and the rooms will be open to showcase some of our art.

CANCELLED -March  – International Flower and Garden Show

2020

  • March to November – Due to the COVID 19 lockdown, we are no longer able to attend our rooms in Greensborough. We are also in the process of moving to a new venue, please keep watching for an update.
  • CANCELLED -March 25th to 29th – International Flower and Garden Show.  We will have a few stands with displays form our artists.  Come along and have a look.

 

2019

 

2018

 

2017