NH Sculptor/Furniture maker Jon Brooks to Speak at Peterborough Historical Society, Friday, April 8th: A Sharon Arts, Currier Museum, and Peterborough Historical Society Partnership

On Friday April 8 at 6:15pm, the Peterborough Historical Society will host “A Conversation with New Hampshire Sculptor and Furniture maker Jon Brooks,” presented by the

Jon Brooks, portrait by Gary Samson

Currier Museum of Art in partnership with the Sharon Arts Center and Peterborough Historical Society. The public is invited to hear about Jon Brooks’ extraordinary journey to become a nationally recognized leader of the American studio furniture movement. A New Boston resident, Brooks is the subject of  the exhibition Jon Brooks: A Collaboration with Nature retrospective now on view at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, NH. The evening’s program will feature Jon Brooks and Currier curator Andrew Spahr in conversation and the three non-profits are delighted to partner for this unique opportunity to present Jon Brooks to the Monadnock Region.

Brooks’ work has been regularly included in major national and international exhibitions. His furniture is represented in museum collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, all of which have loaned pieces to the Currier for this special exhibition. In recent years he has been featured in several Sharon Arts Center exhibitions, most recently for “An Artist’s Circle” in Summer 2010. Brooks is one of the early members of the New Hampshire Furniture Masters Association, founded in 1993, and is a graduate of the School for American Crafts at Rochester Institute of Technology, where he earned B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees.

The Peterborough Historical Society is located at 19 Grove Street in Peterborough. Light refreshments will be served, admission is free and doors open at 5:30pm. Seating is limited, so please reserve your space for this program by e-mailing mthornton@currier.org or call 603-669-6144, extension 120.

For more information about the Brooks exhibition, visit www.currier.org.

View the Invitation to the event

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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 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!