Juried Exhibit – Art with Feeling: Touch, Look, Listen – Announced by Sharon Arts Center, in partnership with the  New Hampshire Association for the Blind and the New Hampshire Art Association

Peterborough, NH – - - “Please touch.” That’s the invitation that Sharon Arts Center is sending to the state’s community of people who are blind and visually impaired – and it’s the challenge being issued to the state’s visual artists by Sharon Arts in collaboration with the New Hampshire Association for the Blind and New Hampshire Art Association.    Artists wishing to exhibit can obtain full details at the Sharon Art Center’s website at www.sharonarts.org/exhibitions/call-for-entries or by calling 603-924-7676.

Designed to remove barriers to experiencing art for people who are blind and visually impaired and to raise awareness of the need for heightened accessibility to fine art in different locales statewide, Art with Feeling builds on the ground breaking 2009 exhibition, Art Beyond Sight© also presented by the New Hampshire Association for the Blind and New Hampshire Art Association. “By challenging artists to stretch their concepts of the ways in which their work is perceived,” says Sharon Arts Exhibition Gallery Manager Camellia Sousa, “the exhibition allows enhanced accessibility and encourages new audiences to appreciate works of art in a way that has been largely unavailable to them.” This juried exhibition, Art with Feeling: Touch, Look, Listen, is scheduled for September 3rd through October 30th at the Sharon Arts Downtown Galleries in Peterborough.

Jurors for Art with Feeling: Touch, Look, Listen are: Valerie Burrows, Accessibility Coordinator, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA and Deb DeCicco, Healing Arts Coordinator, Crotched Mountain Foundation, Greenfield, NH.

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 Downtown Galleries in Depot Square (Fine Craft Gallery & Store, Juried Artist Gallery and Exhibition Gallery) are open Sunday, 12-5 pm; Monday –Wednesday, 10am-6pm; Thursday – Friday, 10am-7pm; Saturday 10am-6pm (The Exhibition Gallery is open year round). The Sharon Arts School of Art & 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 New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, The Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation, and art lovers like you!

About New Hampshire Association for the Blind

The New Hampshire Association for the Blind is the statewide leader in providing vision rehabilitation services for New Hampshire people of all ages who are blind and visually impaired. Founded in 1912, it provides services in virtually every community statewide and at the McGreal Sight Center in Concord.

Many people are unaware how common severe vision impairment is, particularly among older people. Most do not know that nearly all people who are blind or visually impaired can greatly benefit from rehabilitation services to regain independence after loss of sight.

About New Hampshire Art Association

The New Hampshire Art Association is a non-profit professional art association founded in 1940. It is one of the oldest statewide art associations in the country.  It consists of over 450 members of painters, photographers, watercolorists, printmakers, sculptors and other fine artists living and working primarily in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont.