10 Things I Love About AVA

10 Reasons to Give to AVA:

1. People: Everyone brings something to the table, everyone has a story to share, and everyone contributes generously to our creative spaces.
2. Creativity: That magical quality each generation brings to another, the capacity to see things fresh and give new form to enduring ideas.
3. Craft: Our restless commitment to the bond between hand and material, shaping what we see with the tools and materials we love. 
4. Studios: Our unique and varied spaces for artists to retreat, reflect, iterate and produce (and yes, store our things too!) 
5. Exhibits: How we come together to share our works, individually and in dialogue with others. Each show like a tide, depositing something new and washing it away again.
6. Events: We connect, share ideas, build energy, and generate momentum when we dream up and fill up community-building events.
7. Classes: Where we nurture a lifelong love for making, the art of play at all ages—powered by curiosity, the joy of color, and the vibrancy of connection.
8. Kids: Our halls, filled in equal parts with laughter and the patter of feet, hollering parents and the wonderment of seeing something new.
9. Wonder: This is our default position, to be awestruck at the never-ending stream of ideas, connections, and creations that flow when humans thrive.
10. Joy: What you bring when you dive into all that AVA has to offer.