Sharon Arts Youth ARTventure Summer Camp Students Create a Mural this Week for

Crotched Mountain Foundation’s Outpatient Clinic Reception Area

Peterborough, NH – - – Art can lift the spirits of anyone who stops to look – wherever it exists. During the week of July 26th, the students (ages 7-12) of the Youth ARTventure Summer Camp at Sharon Arts Center will learn about the importance of art in a public space, and will collaborate with a student-artist from the Crotched Mountain School to design and create an inspirational mural for the children’s reception area of the Outpatient Clinic at Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Center in Greenfield, NH. Leona Nazarro, a high school student at Crotched Mountain School, joined the group as they painted the mural on Wednesday.

“The children will learn not only about how to collaborate as a team, but also to be able to use their art to bring joy into the lives of others,” said Naomi Graham, ARTventure instructor. “We are so grateful to Crotched Mountain for making this possible for our students.” Nick DelliColli, Outpatient Clinic manager, was equally enthused. “We’ve wanted to enliven this part of the reception area for some time. I was thrilled when Julie Arpin, our administrative assistant, suggested this idea, brought it to the Sharon Arts Center and found a way to include a Crotched Mountain School student in the project. I can’t wait to see the completed mural.”

The week will end with an on site Opening Reception and an unveiling of the mural on Friday, July 30th at 12:00 noon at Crotched Mountain. Parents of the students and staff of both organizations are invited, and reporters from the press are invited and encouraged to attend as well. Directions to the Outpatient Clinic at CMRC can be found at www.crotchedmountain.org.

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. Sharon Arts Center offers a wide variety of art classes and programs in the school facility in Sharon, NH, and has an Artists’ Resource Center (selling art supplies), a Fine Craft Gallery, a Juried Artist Member Gallery, and an Exhibition Gallery in the Depot Square facility.

The Sharon Arts Fine Crafts Gallery is located in Depot Square in Downtown Peterborough. Store hours are: Monday – Thursday 10am to 6pm, Friday 10am to 7pm, Saturday 10am to 6pm, Sundays 11 – 4 PM, and First Fridays 10am to 8pm (first Friday of each month). The Fine Art Gallery is open year round.

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

About Crotched Mountain Foundation
Crotched Mountain is a charitable organization whose mission is to serve individuals with disabilities and their families, embracing personal choice and development, and building communities of mutual support. Crotched Mountain provides specialized education, rehabilitation, community, and residential support services for more than 3,000 people from New Hampshire, the other New England states and New York. For more information about Crotched Mountain, please visit www.crotchedmountain.org.