Sharon Arts Center Hosts
"The First Student Docent Night" - Enjoy an Interactive Gallery Tour with a Student Docent as Your Guide!

Thursday, November 20th, 6 - 7:30 pm, At the Downtown Exhibition Gallery in Peterborough NH

Sharon Arts Center, a non-profit arts organization committed to connecting the community with the arts, will host a Student Docent Night - an opportunity for the public to enjoy an interactive tour of the current exhibit "A Gathering of New Hampshire Visual Arts Fellows", with a student docent as their guide. The event will take place on Thursday, November 20th at the Sharon Arts Downtown Gallery in Peterborough from 6 - 7:30 pm. The public is welcome to attend. Refreshments will be provided. Ample parking in Depot Square.

The Sharon Arts Youth Student Docent program took place in collaboration with the Jaffrey-Rindge schools through the Gifted & Talented program. The Student Docent program is the first of its kind in the Monadnock Region, and possibly the first in the state. It is a new school partnership created especially for school children in grades five through twelve, and is based upon a successful model program designed by the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT in the 1990s. The program aims to equip schoolchildren with the skills needed to discover and connect with visual art.

Youth Student Docents attend several after school training sessions with SAC's director of education, Melanie McDonald who teaches them to use a "Socratic" approach for decoding and analyzing a work of art. When training is complete, the Docents model that same approach to engage their classmates and families in conversation about the art during a class field trip to the Sharon Arts Downtown Exhibition Gallery.

The following students have completed their training in the Youth Student Docent Program and will be participating in the Student Docent Night:

• From Jaffrey Grade School: Loey Gregory-Wiley, Sarah McGonagle, Duncan Pierce, Brian Zimardo
• From Rindge Memorial School: Shannon Bennett, Topher Hill, Drew Horne, Julia Wiseman

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 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 Member Artist Gallery, and an Exhibition gallery in the Depot Square facility. For more information on Sharon Arts, and current exhibitions and events, please visit www.sharonarts.org. Sharon Arts is sponsored in part by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation.

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