An opening reception celebration is planned for CLICK! Contemporary Responses to Photographic Masterworks the innovative exhibit of Vintage Photographic Masterworks at Sharon Arts Friday, May 6^th from 5 to 7pm at the downtown Exhibition Gallery.

The ground- breaking juried exhibit, CLICK!, features vintage masterworks by such renowned  photographers as Robert Frank, Weegee, Edward Weston, Lee Friedlander, Dorothea Lange,

Aaron Siskind, 1965 Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation #32

Walker Evans and more in juxtaposition with photographs by regional photographers in a “call and response” format. This show gives regional photographers a unique opportunity to present their work in a broad historical and conceptual context. The end result is an interesting mix of contemporary and vintage works that will challenge visitors to consider the history, and future of an entire medium. [Regional juried photographers participating to be announced later this week!]

“We have acquired a collection of work through a series of generous loans, the quality of which is scarcely seen outside major collections and museums,” said co-curators Alex Cahoon and Luke Kelly. “This is shaping up to be one of the most exciting photography shows of the year, not just in the northeast, but arguably in the entire country. We at the Sharon Arts Center are happy to have this opportunity to present such an exemplary exhibition to such a decidedly enthusiastic and artistic community. We think people will be astounded by the amount of truly exceptional photography being created right here in the Monadnock region and its relation to masters like Adams and Weston.”

Click! Contemporary Responses to Photographic Masterworks begins May 6th and continues through June 25th at Sharon Arts Exhibition Gallery, Depot Square, Peterborough. Gallery hours are Monday- Saturday from 10-6 and Sunday from 11-5. Further information is available by calling 603-924-7676, or by following us on Facebook. Sharon Arts Center will be hosting a series of free public programs in conjunction with the exhibit at the downtown Peterborough galleries, including:

Friday, May 6 from 5-7pm: Opening Reception- Free & Open to the Public, wine & cheese reception. (Generously sponsored by Lake Sunapee Bank.)

Tuesday, May 10 from 6-7pm. Artist Talk- A lecture by Gary Samson chair of the photography department at the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester, NH. Gary’s lecture will focus on the historical and thematic content of the images in the exhibition.

Sunday, May 21 10am-2pm- Children & the Arts Festival- Free Activities in the Gallery: A day of engaging photographic activities appropriate for ages 6+ is planned including

Dorothea Lange, 1954 Ireland, Group of Men

photocopy transfers, color tinting of black and white photographs, and an exhibit of photographs by local schoolchildren (opening Thurs. May 19^th from 6:30-7:30pm).

Thursday, June 2 at 5:30pm Artist Talk- A lecture by Robert Sargent Fay (Hancock, NH), photographer and professor of English at Landmark College in Putney, Vermont.  Robert will present a variety of photographs and discuss photography as theater- with an emphasis on perception, imagination, and reflection.

This exhibition is generously sponsored by:

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About Sharon Arts

The mission of Sharon Arts Center, a non-profit organization, is to engage the community in the artistic process, to support and serve artists and craftspeople, and to foster the relationship between artists and the community through education, exhibitions, the promotion and sale of art and craft, as well as through special programs and events.

Sharon Arts Center offers a wide variety of art classes and programs in the school facility in Sharon, NH, a Fine Craft Gallery, a Juried Artist Member Gallery, and an Exhibition Gallery at Depot Square.

The Sharon Arts Fine Crafts Gallery is located in Depot Square in Downtown Peterborough. Store hours are: Monday – Saturday 10am to 6pm, Sunday 11 – 4 PM.

Sharon Arts Center is sponsored in part by The New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, The Susan A. & Donald P. Babson Charitable Foundation, The Bean Foundation, The Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, The Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation, The Kingsbury Foundation, The Putnam Foundation and art lovers like you!

Photographer Gary Samson to discuss Innovative Exhibit of Vintage Photographic Masterworks at Sharon Arts, Tuesday, May 10, 6pm

Gary Samson, chair of the photography department at the New Hampshire Institute of Art, will deliver a lecture on Click! Contemporary Responses to Photographic Masterworks, the current

"Magic Cove, Inverness County, Cape Breton," by Gary Samson- 2008. (captured on film and digitally printed)

exhibit now at Sharon Arts Center’s downtown Galleries Tuesday, May 10^th at 6pm. Admission to this public educational program is free and all are welcome!

Discussing masterworks by such renowned photographers as Robert Frank, Weegee, Edward Weston, Lee Friedlander, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans and more, Gary’s lecture will focus on the historical and thematic content of the images in the exhibition which opens Friday, May 6^th from 5-7pm at the Center’s downtown exhibition gallery (reception sponsored by Lake Sunapee Bank).

About Gary Samson: Gary Samson is recognized as an accomplished fine arts photographer and photo educator. In 1984 he received a fellowship from the NH Council on the Arts for his environmental portraits of New Hampshire artists and writers. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Currier Museum of Art, the New Hampshire Institute of Art, the State of New Hampshire, the Art Galleries at the University of New Hampshire as well as private collections. In the fall of 1998 his work was included in the exhibition Moments in Time: Master Photographs from the Currier Gallery of Art. In the fall of 1999, Mr. Samson exhibited a portfolio of his work in Andrezieux-Boutheon, France at the invitation of the French government. Since 1971 when Gary began working as a photographer at UNH, he has been documenting the people, places and events that make up University life. In 1974 he was promoted to the position of University Filmmaker. Photography and filmmaking assignments for the University over the years have taken Gary to off campus locations including Peru, Ireland, Labrador, Belize, Guatemala and the White House. As Filmmaker, Gary has produced ten films reflecting the history and culture of the State of New Hampshire. These documentary and dramatic films have been aired locally, and nationally on cable broadcasts such as Cinemax, as well as on commercial and public television stations. Beginning in 1974, Gary has extensively utilized 19th and 20th century photographic archives in the production of films and exhibitions about New Hampshire’s rich history. His best known films, A World Within A World: The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company and Milltown, are sensitive portrayals of Manchester’s textile mills and the people who labored in them. In 1982 He organized and curated an exhibition on the Franco-American experience in New Hampshire which has traveled to Canada and France as well as throughout New England. After producing a film on the life of internationally acclaimed portrait photographer Lotte Jacobi, Gary spent six years with Ms. Jacobi cataloging her archive of 47,000 negatives which were donated to the University of New Hampshire in 1981. Gary has also written several books on New Hampshire history including A World Within a World: Manchester, The Mills, and the Immigrant Experience and Capitol Views: A Photographic History of Concord, New Hampshire 1850-1930. In 2001 he was appointed Chair of the Photography Department at the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester, NH. [bio courtesy of the New Hampshire Institute of Art]

For a complete listing of free public programs for all ages related to this exhibition, visit www.sharonarts.org or call 603-924-7676

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About Sharon Arts

The mission of Sharon Arts Center, a non-profit organization, is to engage the community in the artistic process, to support and serve artists and craftspeople, and to foster the relationship between artists and the community through education, exhibitions, the promotion and sale of art and craft, as well as through special programs and events.

Sharon Arts Center offers a wide variety of art classes and programs in the school facility in Sharon, NH, a Fine Craft Gallery, a Juried Artist Member Gallery, and an Exhibition Gallery at Depot Square. The Sharon Arts Craft Store is accessed through Depot Square and 30 Grove St. in downtown Peterborough. The Craft Gallery is located in Depot Square in Downtown Peterborough. Store & Exhibition Gallery hours are: Monday – Saturday 10am to 6pm, Sunday 11 – 5 PM.

Sharon Arts is sponsored in part by: The New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts through the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act, The Susan A. & Donald P. Babson Charitable Foundation, The Bean Foundation, The Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, The Putnam Foundation, The Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation, The Kingsbury Foundation, and art lovers like you!

A Night of Creativity for Teens by Teens (Resched. from 4/1)

The nonprofit Sharon Arts School of Art and Craft invites teens from throughout the Monadnock region, their friends and the general public to the school in Sharon, NH this Friday, April 29^th 2011, from 6pm to midnight for the 3rd annual “ArtAttack” – (RESCHEDULED From original date 4/1/11) a night of unlimited creativity designed by teens for teens.  The all-inclusive ticket cost ($15) provides creative teens from across southern New Hampshire and Northern Massachusetts with unparalleled access to a fun night of: painting and drawing, ceramics, jewelry design, wire sculpture, fashion fun, body painting and more, all under the direction of experienced Sharon Arts faculty and volunteers. Participants under 18 are required to have their pre-purchased ticked signed by a parent/guardian, or to bring a parent to sign a ticket at the door.

Designed to provide safe, fun, and creative beyond-school programming, Sharon Arts Center’s Youth and Teen programs have grown exponentially in recent years. From Summer ArtVenture Camp and After School Clay Clubs, to ArtAccess, an innovative year-long portfolio development program serving high schoolers from ConVal, Conant, Mascenic and other schools, Sharon Arts has become a magnet for creative youth in the Monadnock Region and beyond! Expanded scholarship opportunities have recently provided even more access to SAC programs and events in response to the needs of area families during this economic downturn.

The annual ArtAttack event began in 2008 as a means to expand the reach of the ArtAccess portfolio program to the peers of participants. In an effort to provide teens with a safe and fun alternative to the limited teen activities in the rural Monadnock region, portfolio program participants designed ArtAttack to simulate the college art environment by providing teen artists with a fun, nurturing place to become immersed in visual art, above and beyond the classroom.  Planned by teens, for teens, the event has become the highlight of the season for many participants who learn of the event largely via word of mouth, at their high schools, and through the program’s active Facebook page. In recent years, the event has drawn between 150 and 200 teen artists from across the Monadnock Region.  Sharon Arts provides faculty, materials, use of 6 state-of-the-art studios as well as ample volunteer chaperones to provide added supervision and safety for the event.

Lauryn Welch of Hancock, NH at a previous ArtAttack event.

Lauryn Welch, a ConVal graduate and current student at Rhode Island School of Design participated in ArtAccess for several years, was an intern for the program, and plans to return this year as a volunteer.  “I can’t wait to come home and volunteer at ArtAttack over Spring Break,” explained Welch. “My involvement in ArtAccess and my active participation in ArtAttack is a special time I’ll never forget, and I’m excited to share it with another generation of artists!”

“Sharon Arts is excited to provide this opportunity to area teens,” cites SAC School Director, Alexandra Wall. “This event is magical and gives young artists in our community a safe and encouraging place to let their creativity run wild!”

This year’s ArtAttack will feature: Paint Rumpus Room: Using unusual tools (squirt guns, slides, balloons with darts, etc) to make marks in a paper covered room; Paperland: Paper will take on new dimensions as people create collaborative giant paper sculptures and origami, using cardboard, newspaper, papier mache, etc. and design their own moving paper puppets for a grand finale puppet show at the end of the night; T-shirt factory: Using a wide variety of mark-making techniques folks will print, stamp, paint, and texturize t-shirts (bring your own, or buy one for $2), then tailor/reconstruct it your own way, or use directions provided. Then, the dyes will be broken out, to add even more character. Figure Drawing: guided drawing from live models (after midnight ,18+); Mixed Media Mechanisms: Wire, found objects, and small sheet metal will be the materials employed to make art that may even move!  After 10pm, this studio will switch to a body art room, with Henna and facepainting. Ceramics: This clay studio will be open for clay play including a constantly evolving group sculpture; Glass bead and sculpture lampworking in the Glass Studio.

Admission paid to the event covers use of all materials and tools and helps to raise much-needed funds to support the ArtAccess teen portfolio program and to provide scholarship funds, resources, and expanded opportunities to the program’s participants including an annual art city overnight trip planned for June 2011.

There will be pizza and goodies for sale. Everyone will be welcome 6pm-midnight, and those who are 18+ can until 2am. Volunteers, and monetary and in-kind (food, raffle prize) donations to support this event are welcome: please contact Alexandra Wall at 603-924-7256 x3 or via email Alexandra@sharonarts.org.

Sharon Arts Center would like to thank the following local businesses for donating food, materials, and supplies to the event: Shaw’s Supermarket (Peterborough), Wal-Mart (Rindge), Hannaford’s (Rindge), Peterborough Pizza Barn, and Our Town Pizza (Peterborough).

For more information:

ArtAttack Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=158592204196865

ArtAccess Webpage: http://www.sharonarts.org/education/artaccess

ArtAttack Poster: http://www.sharonarts.org/happenings/events/artattack

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About Sharon Arts

The mission of Sharon Arts Center, a non-profit organization, is to engage the community in the artistic process, to support and serve artists and craftspeople, and to foster the relationship between artists and the community through education, exhibitions, the promotion and sale of art and craft, as well as through special programs and events.

Sharon Arts Center offers a wide variety of art classes and programs in the school facility in Sharon, NH, a Fine Craft Gallery, a Juried Artist Member Gallery, and an Exhibition Gallery in the Depot Square facility. The Sharon Arts Center School is located at 457 Route 123 in rural Sharon, NH. The Sharon Arts Craft Store is located in Depot Square in Downtown Peterborough. Store hours are: Monday – Saturday, 10am to 6pm, Sunday, 12 noon – 6pm.

Sharon Arts is sponsored in part by the Bean Foundation, the Kingsbury Foundation, the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, The Putnam Foundation, The Susan A. and Donald P. Babson Charitable Foundation, and the Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation.

MaryAnn and Ken Sullivan of Temple, New Hampshire were the “highest bidders” on a one-of-a-kind  handmade ceramic vase created by published ceramicist and Sharon Arts faculty member,

Silent Auction winner Ken Sullivan (Temple, NH) with James Mitschmyer's Ceramic Vessel with brushwork!

James Mitschmyer. The black and white vase, standing about 24” high and showcasing Mitschmyer’s accomplished Asian-inspired brushwork of trees and mountainous landscapes, was a popular item during a silent auction at the Spring Open House on April 16^th, dedicated to raising money for the Sharon Arts School’s ceramics program. This was the first silent auction event at the School of Art and Craft in 3 years. The Open House event helped to raise funds towards studio upgrades for the Ceramics program at Sharon Arts, including a new slab-roller for students who specialize in handbuilding. Funds acquired will also support new kiln parts, and glaze purchases to expand the resources available in the Sharon Arts clay program.
“The excitement and enthusiasm that was generated from the spirit of the auction was exactly the kind of atmosphere that Sharon Arts is always nurturing- both the students and the patrons were pleased to see the auction support our cause, knowing that ceramics students will benefit from the fundraising for years to come,” said Alexandra Wall, School Director. “We hope to have future events entail the same level of participation and excitement. I look forward to having visitors to the School again, rallying to support our programs and facility.”

The Sharon Arts Center School of Art and Craft is pleased to announce the addition of Elizabeth Johansson of Hancock, NH to our faculty this spring. Elizabeth taught basic drawing and still-life

"4 Teapots," Graphite on Paper- Elizabeth Johansson

drawing many years ago at the Sharon Arts Center School. This spring and summer, Elizabeth will be teaching “Drawing the Still Life,” which is offered as a full-day Saturday workshop and can be taken Saturdays May 14 or June 4. She is thrilled to return as a faculty member this year!

“It is an honor to have Elizabeth Johansson return to the Sharon Arts faculty- she’s a real Monadnock treasure,” conveyed School Director Alexandra Wall. “Her exquisite work and her extensive teaching expertise will provide our students with a detailed understanding of more advanced still life drawing techniques, designed for artists looking to refine their skills.”

Elizabeth has been working as a visual artist for the past 30 years. Her drawings and paintings are often based on the still life, although portraits, self-portraits and landscapes are included in the spectrum of her work. Her drawings can be found in the permanent collections of The Currier Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, and the DeCordova Museum.  Johansson’s work has been represented by galleries in Boston and New York, and currently at Clark Gallery in Lincoln, MA. Elizabeth studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Along with working in her studio, Elizabeth has taught for 22 years at the New Hampshire Institute of Art.  Her classes included Drawing I, Advanced Drawing, Still Life Drawing, and Figure Drawing II, in the Bachelor of Fine Arts and Continuing Education Programs. For several years she taught still life drawing, basic drawing and pastel at Nashua Center for the Arts and also taught young artists at the Currier Art Center in Manchester, NH. Elizabeth resides in Hancock, NH with her husband artist James Aponovich (NH Artist Laureate 2006-10).

"Gold, White, and Red Ribbons," Oil on Canvas- Elizabeth Johansson

“Drawing the Still Life” will focus on understanding the still life, creating a composition, and considering perspective, proportion and spatial relationships. Each artist has their own style and vision; this workshop is designed to build skills and to motivate! There will be plenty of individual attention given to each participant to develop and improve skills as needed.

“It was at the Sharon Arts Center, back in the early 1980′s, in the old building, where I began to teach drawing. So, after more than 20 years teaching drawing and painting outside of the Monadnock area, I am happy to return to teach drawing at the Sharon Arts Center. I am looking forward to presenting the upcoming workshop, “Drawing the Still Life,” expressed Johansson about her new teaching ventures in Sharon. “Sharpen your pencils, get some good paper, and join us for a day of drawing!”

We are eager to help folks in our community by making these opportunities to learn more financially accessible through Sharon Arts Center’s Scholarship Funds. It is our hope that the availability of these funds will help to remove some of the impediments that may exist between our programs and those who wish to participate in them. To that end, we encourage anyone who needs assistance to apply for an SAC Scholarship. For more information about Elizabeth Johansson’s offerings or our scholarship program, please contact our school at (603)924-7256.

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About Sharon Arts

The mission of Sharon Arts Center, a non-profit organization, is to engage the community in the artistic process, to support and serve artists and craftspeople, and to foster the relationship between artists and the community through education, exhibitions, the promotion and sale of art and craft, as well as through special programs and events.

Sharon Arts Center offers a wide variety of art classes and programs in the school facility in Sharon, NH, a Fine Craft Gallery, a Juried Artist Member Gallery, and an Exhibition Gallery at Depot Square.

The Sharon Arts School is located at 457 Route 123 in Sharon, NH. Classes take place Monday-Thursday from 10am-9pm, Fridays from 10am-4pm, and on select weekend days.  The Student Shop is open during school office hours, Monday-Friday 8:30am-4:30pm.

Sharon Arts School is sponsored in part by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, The Bean Foundation, The Susan A. & Donald P. Babson Charitable Foundation, and the Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation.

Sharon Arts Center, a non-profit organization, is excited to invite the public to “Artini II: Art with a Twist” on Saturday, April 23^rd from 6-8pm at the downtown Peterborough Exhibition Gallery. In response to the success of a similar event in the spring of 2008, Sharon Arts Center’s board, staff, and volunteers have assembled some of the best artists and crafters in the Monadnock region for an evening of live music (by Bob Pettegrew), cocktails (martinis, wine & beer), delicious hors d’oeuvres, and handmade and embellished items celebrating cocktail culture. As a community-based nonprofit, Sharon Arts Center relies on donations and fundraising events that combine a passion for art with excellent opportunities to socialize and celebrate artists in our community.

Tickets to the event are $25/ per person and are available at any Sharon Arts Center location and by phone during business hours School in Sharon- (602)924-7256: M-F 8:30-4:30
Downtown Peterborough Galleries- (603)924-2787: M-Sat. 11-6, Sun. 11-5

The event will feature music, delicious food, specialty cocktails, beer, wine, and a silent auction at which attendees can bid on one-of-a-kind, handmade and embellished items. The auction will include wine glasses, pitchers, olive picks, paintings, and all things cocktail by some of the most talented artists in the Monadnock region! 

Attendees at Sharon Arts Center's 2008 Artini fundraiser admire the diverse array of handmade and embellished items at the silent auction.

To date, the following artists are participating:

Mizzy Boyle-Wilton, NH
Alex Cahoon-Peterborough, NH
Carole Anne Centre-Langdon, NH
Chad Creighton-Portland, ME
Michael Cucurullo-Brookline, MA
Ellen Friel Amherst, NH
Linda Harris-Jaffrey, NH
Cecilia Howard-Bedford, NH
Carolyn Howard – Jaffrey, NH
Katrina Ingraham-Peterborough, NH
Amelia + Ramona Johnson-Jaffrey, NH
Kate Lenahan-Peterborough, NH
Amy McGregor-Radin-Newton Centre, MA
Cynthia Niederhelman-Hancock, NH
Ella Rank-Marlborough, NH

Cynthia Geary (Francestown, NH) at the 2008 Artini fundraiser admires silent auction items.

Joy Raskin-Bedford, NH
Robert Seaman – Keene, NH
Anne Sobel-Milford, NH
Camellia Sousa-Milford, NH
Erin Sweeney-Peterborough, NH
Andrea Swiechowicz-Wilton, NH
Joan Tierney-Wilton, NH
Alexandra Wall, Sharon, NH
Marc Winnat, Nashua, NH
Dana Wood, Peterborough, NH
And More!!!

Additional auction donations from regional artists are welcome; please contact Camellia Sousa by email- camellia@sharonarts.org or by phone(603)924-7676) to make arrangements. Many thanks to Artini’s media sponsors The Monadnock Ledger-Transcript and Savron Graphics of Jaffrey, NH. Sharon Arts is also looking for additional in-kind and financial sponsorships from area restaurants and businesses in the form of flowers, food, and beverages- contact Camellia Sousa at (603)924-7676 or via email at Camellia@sharonarts.org. For tickets or additional information call the Sharon Arts Center Downtown Galleries at (603)924-2787.

This event is sponsored in part by:

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About Sharon Arts

The mission of Sharon Arts Center, a non-profit organization, is to engage the community in the artistic process, to support and serve artists and craftspeople, and to foster the relationship between artists and the community through education, exhibitions, the promotion and sale of art and craft, as well as through special programs and events.

Sharon Arts Center offers a wide variety of art classes and programs in the school facility in Sharon, NH, a Fine Craft Gallery, a Juried Artist Member Gallery, and an Exhibition Gallery at Depot Square.

The Sharon Arts Fine Crafts Exhibition Gallery is accessed through Depot Square and 30 Grove St. in downtown Peterborough. The Craft Gallery is located in Depot Square in Downtown Peterborough. Store & Exhibition Gallery hours are: Monday – Saturday 11am to 6pm, Sunday 11 – 4 PM.

Sharon Arts is sponsored in part by: The New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts through the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act, The Susan A. & Donald P. Babson Charitable Foundation, The Bean Foundation, The Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, The Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation, The Kingsbury Foundation, and art lovers like you!

Vintage Photographic Masterworks at
Sharon Arts Challenge Area
Photographers to Respond.
Opening Reception May 6^th from 5-7pm.

• See the Public/Community Call for Entries
• See the Artist Call for Entries
  

In a ground-breaking juried exhibit, Click! Contemporary Responses to Photographic Masterworks, Sharon Arts Center challenges the region’s photographers to respond to a loaned collection of vintage masterworks by such renowned photographers as Robert Frank, Weegee, Edward Weston, Harry Callahan, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Ansel Adams. Regional photographers will be asked to consider their work in relation to these impressive vintage works. This show gives regional photographers a unique opportunity to present their work in a broad historical and conceptual context. The end result will be an interesting mix of contemporary and vintage works that will challenge visitors to consider the history, and future of an entire medium.

Aaron Siskind, 1965 Pleasures & Terrors of Levitation #32

“We have acquired a collection of work through a series of generous loans, the quality of which is scarcely seen outside major collections and museums,” said co-curators Alex Cahoon and Luke Kelly. “This is shaping up to be one of the most exciting photography shows of the year,

Dorothea Lange, 1954 Ireland, Group of Men

not just in the northeast, but arguably in the entire country. We at the Sharon Arts Center are happy to have this opportunity to present such an exemplary exhibition to such a decidedly enthusiastic and artistic community. We think people will be astounded by the amount of truly exceptional photography being created right here in the Monadnock region and its relation to masters like Adams and Weston.”

Sharon Arts Center will be hosting a series of free public programs in conjunction with the exhibit at the downtown Peterborough galleries, including:

Friday, May 6 from 5-7pm: Opening Reception- Free & Open to the Public, wine & cheese reception. (Generously sponsored by Lake Sunapee Bank.)

Tuesday, May 10 from 6-7pm. Artist Talk- A lecture by Gary Samson chair of the photography department at the New Hampshire Institute of Art. Gary’s lecture will focus on the historical and thematic content of the images in the exhibition.

Sunday, May 21 10am-2pm- Children & the Arts Festival- Free Activities in the Gallery: A day of engaging photographic activities appropriate for ages 6+ is planned including photocopy transfers, color tinting of black and white photographs, and an exhibit of photographs by local schoolchildren (opening Thurs. May 19^th from 6:30-7:30pm).

Thursday, June 2 at 5:30pm Artist Talk- A lecture by Robert Sargent Fay, photographer and professor of English at Landmark College in Putney, Vermont.  Robert will present a variety of photographs and discuss photography as theater- with an emphasis on perception, imagination, and reflection.

Click! Contemporary Responses to Photographic Masterworks begins May 6^th and continues through June 25^th at Sharon Arts Exhibition Gallery, Depot Square,  Peterborough. Gallery hours are Monday- Saturday from 10-6 and Sunday from 11-5. Further information is available by calling 603-924-7676, or by following us on Facebook.

This exhibition sponsored in part by http://www.uprinting.com and Lake Sunapee Bank.

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About Sharon Arts

The mission of Sharon Arts Center, a non-profit organization, is to engage the community in the artistic process, to support and serve artists and craftspeople, and to foster the relationship between artists and the community through education, exhibitions, the promotion and sale of art and craft, as well as through special programs and events.

Sharon Arts Center offers a wide variety of art classes and programs in the school facility in Sharon, NH, a Fine Craft Gallery, a Juried Artist Member Gallery, and an Exhibition Gallery at Depot Square.

The Sharon Arts Fine Crafts Gallery is located in Depot Square in Downtown Peterborough. Store hours are: Monday – Saturday 10am to 6pm, Sunday 11 – 5 PM.

Sharon Arts is sponsored in part by the New Hampshire State Council On The Arts, The National Endowment For The Arts Through The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, The Susan A. & Donald P. Babson Charitable Foundation, The Bean Foundation, The Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, The Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation, The Kingsbury Foundation, And Art Lovers Like You!

Sharon Arts School Invites the Community to Spring Open House, Workshops, and Student Exhibition- Saturday April 16th!

Students of all ages and abilities are invited to explore their choice of nearly a dozen art and craft mediums at the nonprofit Sharon Arts Center School of Art and Craft’s Open House Workshops on Saturday, April 16^th, 10am-3pm; a “no-strings” introduction to the School’s lineup of courses and workshops for the Spring term.

Courses include art journals, digital image editing, glass bead and sculpture, intro to oil painting, wheel-throwing, polymer clay, drawing, and more. “Our semi-annual Open House event allows people to try their hand at one or more art and craft techniques without having to commit to a full course or workshop,” said Alexandra Wall, School Director. “Each session includes a 2-hour mini-workshop which is part demo and part hands-on experience, guided by a Sharon Arts faculty member. Participants can explore the art or craft of their choice; one activity in the morning session (10am to 12noon,) and another in the afternoon (1 to 3pm,)” Alexandra added. Pre-registration is encouraged, and walk-ins are welcome.

In addition to the mini-workshops, the event will include: a Pottery Potluck fundraiser, student exhibition, raffle prize drawing, and a chance to meet photographer Elsa Voelcker (1-3pm) and have a free 5×7” portrait photo taken. Elsa’s experience is in photographing body art, but her portrait photography is open to anyone. All participants will receive their free photograph in the mail following the event. Participants donning their own body art can even learn about getting involved in her photography grant project on tattoos and body art.

While refreshments will be provided in the morning and afternoon, attendees are invited to bring a lunch, or to select a handmade ceramic piece from the Pottery Potluck fundraiser and get a free lunch with purchase!  Fundraiser proceeds benefit the ceramics lab. Workshops are $20 each, SAC members can attend the full day for only $35. Space is limited and this is a popular event so people are urged to sign up early and reserve their seat.

Workshop details are available  by calling (603)924-7256.

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About Sharon Arts

The mission of Sharon Arts Center, a non-profit organization, is to support and serve artists and craftspeople, to engage the community in the artistic process, and to foster the relationship between artists and the community through education, exhibitions, the promotion and sale of art and craft, as well as through special programs and events.

The Sharon Arts School of Art and Craft in Sharon, NH, offers a wide variety of art classes and programs. The School offices are open Monday – Friday, 8:30am – 4:30pm.

Sharon Arts Center is sponsored in part by the Bean Foundation, the Kingsbury Foundation, the Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation, the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, the Putnam Foundation, the Susan A. & Donald P. Babson Charitable Foundation, the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, and art-lovers like you!