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By awall ( November 4, 2011 at 8:22 am) · Filed under Press Releases, Uncategorized, art exhibition nh, call for art entries, juried art exhibition, nh artists
The Sharon Arts Center is sending out a Call to Artists under 30 for a juried art exhibition that will open on Mar. 3, 2012 and run through April 28, 2012.
“We’re looking for artists under 30 from anywhere in New England who will deal with the questions: who am I, what is my view on the world today, and how do I fit in,” says organizer Kate Lenahan. “Whether presented through traditional mediums and principles or through new and innovative elements and techniques, it is our hope that this exhibition will provide contrasting examples of hope and despair for the viewer to investigate. Entries will be judged on technical merit, aesthetic quality, creativity, and how well the subject interprets the concept.”
A $500 award for Best in Show will be given, Lenahan adds, along with two Honorable Mentions awards. To be eligible, the artist’s birthday cannot come before May 1, 1981, and he or she must be out of high school. Mediums under consideration include all 2D, 3D, and digital (animation, film) media. Work that has not been previously shown at the Sharon Arts Center is acceptable, and all work must be for sale. Each artist can submit up to five pieces for consideration. All 2D submissions must be framed, wired, and ready to hang (sectional metal frames, saw tooth hangers, glass clips, and unframed matted images are not acceptable).
There is an entry fee of $15 and a submission deadline of Dec. 31, 2011. Those selected for the exhibition will be notified by Jan. 16, 2012.
Jurors for this exhibition are Cathy Sununu, director of the Portsmouth Museum of Art; Craig Stockwell, artist and professor at Keene State College; and Tim Donovan, artist and director of Launch Art Galleries.
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By awall ( July 1, 2011 at 2:09 pm) · Filed under Press Releases, Uncategorized, charles gray, nh art gallery, nh art show, nh artists, sharon arts, sharonarts.org
Charles Gray’s Modernist Landscapes Featured at Sharon Arts in July
Color, light, positive and negative shapes, atmosphere and close cropping with balanced and contrasting energies mark the near abstractionist landscapes of Holden, MA based painter Charles Gray,
 Verdi #2, Oil on Panel, $250- Charles Gray featured artist for July at Sharon Arts Downtown Galleries.
“Charles’s work blurs the lines between abstraction and direct representation and in doing so I feel it has something to offer everyone,” explained Gallery Assistant Manager Alex Cahoon.
A graduate of the Vesper George School of Art in Boston, Mr. Gray’s work has been featured at many juried exhibits including UNH Biennial, ARTSWorcester Biennial, Coolidge Center for the Arts Portsmouth, and the Fitchburg Museum. Mr. Gray’s paintings will be on display at Sharon Arts through the month of July. Further information is available by calling 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.
 Lake Series #23, Oil on Panel, $250- Charles Gray 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 and 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 and Reinvestment Act, The Susan A. and Donald P. Babson Charitable Foundation, The Bean Foundation, The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, The Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation, The Putnam Foundation, The Kingsbury Foundation, and art lovers like you!
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By awall ( June 30, 2011 at 10:52 am) · Filed under Press Releases, Uncategorized, clay workshops, nh art event, nh art gallery, nh art show, nh artists, sharon arts, sharonarts.org
Sharon Arts Invites Public to Hands-on Pottery Demonstrations
In Gallery- Saturdays July 9th, 16th and 23rd Noon-2pm
Good things come in threes, they say, and that certainly applies to the three artist demonstrations scheduled for Sharon Arts Downtown Galleries select Saturdays in July: 9th, 16th and 23rd from Noon to 2:00pm in connection with the exhibition “A Common Peace”: The New Hampshire Potters Guild Biennial Exhibition now running through August 25th.
 Garden Goddess by Liz Fletcher (Mason, NH)
- Saturday, July 9th, Shana Brautigam, of Rindge, NH a teaching artist at Rooted in Clay studios in will demonstrate the art of handbuilding with clay. Shana is listed on the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, Arts in Education and Community Arts Rosters.
- Saturday, July 16th , James Mitschmyer of Sharon, NH will demonstrate techniques for printing in clay. Following a degree from Maine College of Art in ceramics, James studied at The International Workshop for the Ceramic Arts in Tokoname, Japan. He uses various throwing and hand-building techniques to communicate spiritual ideas. James is the Clay Studio Manager at Sharon Arts where he is also on the faculty.
- Saturday July 23rd Liz Fletcher of Mason, NH, will complete the triad with demonstrations of clay sculpture. A graduate of Massachusetts College of Art, Liz has been working in clay as a sculptor, potter, and teacher. She has won many awards and for seven years she worked full-time as a studio potter in the New Hampshire woods, selling her work around the northeast.
“A Common Peace”: The New Hampshire Potters Guild Biennial Exhibition is generously sponsored by Sequoya Technologies, LLC of Peterborough, NH.
All Demonstrations will be held in the Exhibition Gallery in Depot Square, Peterborough from Noon to 2:00pm. The public is invited and encouraged to interact with the artisans about their work and process in the air conditioned comfort of the exhibition space. Further information is available by calling (603)924-2787 or visiting www.sharonarts.org.
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 Clay artist Shana Brautigam of Rooted in Clay (Rindge, NH)
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
 "Pinched pot" handbuilt by Shana Brautigam (Rindge, NH) 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 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 Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation, The Putnam Foundation, The Kingsbury Foundation,& art lovers like you!
About the New Hampshire Potter’s Guild
We are an inclusive organization for people working in clay. We have an address but no central location. We meet several times a year with organizational meetings, workshops, discussions and activities to share work and ideas. We have a commitment to education and community action. We’ve been in existence for several decades and are always looking towards the future.
The purpose of the NHPG is to get together in the interests of ceramics whenever necessary or desirable for fellowship and good times, exchange of ideas and methods, collaboration in work and exhibitions, encouragement to students, and promotion of standards of ethics, aesthetics and craftsmanship. www.nhpottersguild.com
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By awall ( June 17, 2011 at 1:02 pm) · Filed under Uncategorized, nh art gallery, nh art show, nh artists, photography show, sharon arts, sharonarts.org
“Click! Contemporary Responses to Photographic Masterworks”
Curated by Luke Kelly and Alex Cahoon
May 6—June 25 2011
A Review by Katherine Hoffman, Ph.D.
In a small gallery at the Sharon Arts Center, in Peterborough, NH, where Thornton Wilder wrote, Our Town, is a significant photography exhibit, large in spirit, and in concept. Covering a span of approximately 150 years, the exhibit includes works by prominent figures in the history of photography such as Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alfred Stieglitz, August Sander, Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, Weegee (Arthur Fellig), Lee Friedlander, and Hiroshimi Sugimoto, linked with juried work from approximately 24 regional and local photographers, who were invited by the curators to respond to the masterworks. The result is a brilliant confluence of images and ideas, that allow the viewer to see the historical and contemporary works in a new light, connecting past and present, as well, time and place, transcending traditional boundaries of chronology and geography.
Although many decades have passed since the invention of the first practical form of photography, the daguerreotype, was announced at the Academy of Sciences in 1839, photography continues to play a significant role in our global society. Its role as a documentary tool, and as a Fine Art, has become increasing complex as we move into a digital age. Early in the 20th century, Pablo Picasso stated, “ I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.” Henri Cartier-Bresson, the well known photojournalist, who helped found the Magnum Agency, and who photographed Alfred Stieglitz in his late years, wrote,” Taking photographs… is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one’s own vocabulary. It is a way of life.” Alfred Stieglitz, known for his tireless fight for the recognition of photography as a Fine Art, as photographer, publisher of Camera Notes, Camera Work, and gallery owner/ director of 291, the Intimate Gallery, and American Place, wrote as early as 1901, “The arts equally have distinct departments and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art; but granted that it is an art, reliance should be placed unreservedly upon these possibilities, that they may be made to yield the fullest results.” Robert Frank, the Swiss photographer, journeying to the United States on a Guggenheim Fellowship, and well known for his famous book, The Americans, wrote, “ Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected…I am always looking outside, trying to look inside, trying to say something that is true…”
This exhibition, through its pairing and juxtaposition of historical and contemporary works, seeks to present various approaches to the depiction of “something that is true,” and reminds the viewer that in our 20th and 2lst century worlds, there are various approaches to reality. There are significant pairings and groupings of portraiture, landscape/nature, interiors, vernacular signage, abstract approaches to photographic imagery,etc. One sees for example, Alfred Stieglitz’s famous 1907 Steerage, a photogravure, taken looking down at the steerage class while Stieglitz was traveling to Europe ( a work much admired by Picasso), placed next to Fernando Martin’s 2011 archival print, Homeless, where similar uses of line, light, and shadow, contribute to the compelling subject matter of each photographer. Next to August Sander’s 1928 gelatin silver print, Bricklayer, is Sean Lamoureux’s large color 2009 post-modern, The Stalk at Green Briar and Search for Crown Antlers, Charles Tilson, Burner. Or one sees Paul Strand’s 1916 photogravure, Blind Woman, NY, next to Stephen DiRado’s 2003, With Dad: Gene In the Mirror, where the photographer’s father, suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, cannot recognize himself in the mirror. In each instance, the viewer is confronted with aspects of blindness through strong frontal imagery. Roger Fenton’s 1856 salt print, The Valley of the Shadow of Death, taken during the Crimean War, is placed next to Glen Sheffer’s large, 2009 color archival pigment print, Steel Pile 2, that explores elements of destruction and the detritus of modern life. East and West/Landscape and Cityscape are juxtaposed in Hiroshimi Sugimoto’s1980-1990, Time Exposed Seascapes, and David Rheubottom’s 2011 Charles River Triptych. The world of crime photography through the lens of Weegee, in his 1942 gelatin silver print, In Top Hats- In Trouble, is also presented, and inspired Tim Donovan’s large 2011, Untitled, enigmatic installation-like piece that is only seen upon drawing back, two black curtains to reveal a dimly lit, faintly colored, smiling visage.
Not only does the exhibition include some thought provoking juxtapositions, but it also includes some significant historical materials, that are not often seen. One needs to look carefully in the display cases to find, as example, a British family album from India, unusual because of its wet collodion prints on paper; and there are some original letters from Ansel Adams to an early lover, Mildred Johnson, during the 1920’s, referencing in some, his famous 1927 photograph, Monolith:The Face of Half Dome, which appears in the exhibit.
It is unfortunate that there is no catalogue for the exhibit, given the photographic “jewels” that are included in the show. Helpful, too, would have been, more comprehensive wall labels and artists’ statements to allow the viewer to more fully appreciate and understand both the historical photographs, and the contemporary works that were inspired by the earlier works. Some complementary programs such as Gary Samson’s May 10th lecture related to the exhibit, and the photographer Robert Sargent Fay’s June 2nd lecture, “ Photography and the Theater,” did help expand the dimensions of the exhibit. Fay’s work is also included in the show.
In general, the exhibit is well worth visiting. The Sharon Arts Center and the exhibits’ two curators are to be commended for mounting such an exhibit. It is hoped that the Center will continue to present exhibits that explore the on-going influence of photography and its multi-layered role in our increasingly complex society, that “through the lens,” one may view, and perhaps better understand, different aspects of reality and the world around us.
Dr. Katherine Hoffman is a Professor of Fine Arts at St. Anselm College, Manchester, NH. She has written numerous articles, and is the author of seven books, including, Stieglitz: A Beginning Light, Yale University Press, 2004, and most recently, Alfred Stieglitz: A Legacy of Light, Yale University Press, 2011.
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By awall ( June 8, 2011 at 10:39 am) · Filed under Press Releases, Uncategorized, nh art gallery, nh art show, nh artists, sharon arts, sharonarts.org
Nonprofit Sharon Arts Gallery is pleased to announce Earl Schofield of Antrim, NH, as our featured juried artist for the month of June 2011 (through the 30th). An artist, and full-time educator at Dublin School, Earl specializes in encaustic painting- a medium and process that combines pigment and wax to create textured paintings with great depth. The artist has selected a series of works to display which he calls the “Ephemera Series.”
 “I Can’t Name this Painting” Encaustic on Panel by Earl Schofield. “The Ephemera series attempts to find ways for the viewer to engage the portrait with some of the freedom from narrative and the specificity of the individual that is found in my landscape work. The series is a loving homage to my family as much as it is a ‘momento mori’….. They mimic the transience of image and ourselves and they reference the slipperiness and imperfection of memory,” explained Schofield.
“It is always a pleasure to feature the work of such a highly developed and decidedly accomplished local artist. Earl’s beautifully rendered encaustic paintings are engaging not only in their technical execution but also in their conceptual and thematic content. It is exceedingly rare to see an artist develop so many interesting and varied series of works,” commented Alex Cahoon, SAC’s Assistant Gallery Manager.
More information is available at 603-924-2787 or www.earlschofield.com
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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 located in Depot Square, Peterborough, NH and is open Monday through Saturday, 10am-6pm and Sunday 11am – 5pm.
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!
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By awall ( June 7, 2011 at 2:17 pm) · Filed under Press Releases, Uncategorized, keri wiederspahn, nh art gallery, nh art school, nh artists, sharon arts, sharonarts.org
The nonprofit organization Sharon Arts Center is pleased to announce the selection of Keri Wiederspahn as Executive Director, effective June 1, 2011! Wiederspahn will replace interim Director Bob Pettegrew who joined Sharon Arts in January 2010.
 Keri Wiederspahn (Photo courtesy of Justin Schwartz) “I have known Keri for several years, and am fully aware of her extensive background and experience. She is accomplished as a leader, an artist, and a businesswoman and her knowledge of how to run a gallery, school, and retail store will serve Sharon Arts well,” Commented outgoing Director Bob Pettegrew. “Keri simply bubbles with creative ideas and plans for Sharon Arts Center’s future and I can’t imagine a better choice to take over the helm as I step down.”
For nearly twenty years, Keri Wiederspahn’s life and career have centered around art and community, from her BFA in Sculpture at Parsons School of Design in New York, to her life-long career in both for and non-profit art education and community enrichment, to her role as the newly appointed Executive Director of Sharon Arts Center. Wiederspahn, a resident of Nelson, NH, is proud to call the Monadnock Region home and is very focused on the growth and development of the area as an arts destination.
“We are very excited to have Keri join the Sharon Arts family,” expressed Board Chair Carolyn Howard. “Finding someone with a love of art and a strong business mind posed an exciting challenge. Keri brings so much to the table and we are thrilled to work with her to lead Sharon Arts into a creatively brilliant and sustainable future.”
Previously, Ms. Wiederspahn was founder, director, and teacher of Creative Hands Art Studio and Atelier Gallery in Madison, NJ, for fifteen years where she applied her dedication and commitment to artists of all ages and abilities through a dynamic visual arts program and professional gallery. This for-profit art venture involved the development of a successful school and gallery model which propelled the business into great success with expansion to three locations and a student body of nearly 2,000 annually. In 2008, as an initial founder of The Starving Artist, a Keene, NH, volunteer-run nonprofit, she worked closely with husband filmmaker Aaron Wiederspahn and musician Laina Barakat to create an artist collaborative group focused on connecting and serving artists and art aficionados through performance, lecture, workshop, and exhibits.
Wiederspahn, an artist in her own right, has received two recent NH State Arts Council Grants (2008 and 2010) to pursue study of Russian-Byzantine Iconography with Ksenia Pokrovsky of Boston, learning the traditional egg-tempera methods of mixing egg yolk with natural organic pigments. She resides in Nelson, NH, with her husband Aaron Wiederspahn, and her five children. Having summered in New Hampshire since her teen years, she developed a fondness for the Sharon Arts Center early on and recalls having her first professional exhibit of her artwork at the Center upon graduating from Parsons.
“I am honored and privileged to partner with the board and staff to steer Sharon Arts into its next phase of growth as a creative art community,” expressed Wiederspahn. “I am eager to begin the process of defining and amplifying a clearer voice for Sharon Arts through decisive leadership, inspiration, creative programming and innovation.”
“As an artist myself, I know of the beautiful community that develops from a well-nurtured love and commitment for the arts and artists in general,” explained Wiederspahn. “The sincere and driven collective voices of Sharon Arts employees, volunteers, students and benefactors will drive the organization into its next renewed phase of development—a wonderful mix of opportunity and challenge that intersects with and allows for bigger dreams to be born and fulfilled.
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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 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 Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation, The Putnam Foundation, The Kingsbury Foundation, & art lovers like you!
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By awall ( June 2, 2011 at 8:30 am) · Filed under Press Releases, Uncategorized, clay workshops, nh art exhibit, nh artists, nh ceramics classes, nh crafts, sharon arts, sharonarts.org
Grand Opening for NH Potters Guild Biennial at Sharon Arts,
Friday, July 1st, 5-7pm
Sharon Arts Center a non–profit art organization in Peterborough, NH is partnering with The New Hampshire Potters Guild for their upcoming biennial exhibition. The New Hampshire Potter’s
 Reconstruction Book by James Mitschmyer Guild is an inclusive clay organization devoted to the clay community of New Hampshire. Committed to education and community action, the Guild meets several times a year for organizational meetings, workshops, and discussions of methods, collaboration on projects and exhibitions, and more. The organization’s 2011 Biennial takes place at Sharon Arts Exhibition Gallery, in downtown Peterborough NH with an opening Friday July 1st 5-7pm and continuing through August 27th, 2011. This exhibition is generously sponsored by Sequoya Technologies Group, LLC of Peterborough, NH.
“Sharon Arts Center is thrilled to once again partner with the New Hampshire Potter’s Guild,” said Gallery and Store Director Camellia Sousa. Sharon Arts Center had previously hosted the 2007 biennial, Message of Mud. “Sharon Arts has a very strong clay program and a long history of producing some of the region’s most accomplished clay artists- students who learn with us and potters who make a living selling their work at our non-profit gallery.”
New Hampshire Potter’s Guild Members participating in the 2011 Biennial include:
Susan Babine (Goffstown, NH); John Baymore (Wilton, NH); Patsy Belt (Wilton, NH); Shana Brautigam (Rindge, NH); Jeff Brown (Seagrove, NC); Loring Cheney (New Ipswich, NH); Jameson D. Copp (North Hampton, NH); Steve Cunliffe (Henniker, NH); Janet Duchesneau (Temple, NH); Linda Fletcher (Candia, NH); Liz Fletcher (Mason, NH); Ellen Friel (Amherst, NH); Ursula Fries-Herfort (Meriden, NH), Andy Hampton (Chichester, NH); Michélle Hastings (Seagrove, NC); Cheryl Haynes (Sanbornton, NH); Wendy Jackson (Newton, NH); Al Jaeger (Deerfield, NH); Jane Kaufman (Durham NH); Julie Lombard (Concord, NH); Maureen Mills (Portsmouth, NH); James Mitschmyer (Sharon, NH); Karrie Mitschmyer (Sharon, NH); Rachel Montroy (Auburn, NH); Deb Moran (Kingston, NH); Mary Myers (Hancock NH); Miranda Nelkin (Keene, NH); Sarah Nolan (Goffstown, NH); Corrine Null (Bedford, NH); Kari Olstad (Farmington, NH); Cyndi Payne (Bedford, NH); Letitia Pellerin, (Keene, NH); Robin Peringer (Nashua, NH); Sarah Petipas (Foxboro, MA); Sue Russell (Newbury, NH); Steve Russell (Newbury, NH); Jessica Seaten (North Hampton, NH); Patricia Anderson Soule (Concord, NH); Alan Steinburg (Brattleboro, VT); Linda Sten (Madbury, NH); Theresa Taylor (Barnstead, NH); Sibylle Tornow (Merrimack, NH); Ron Tornow (Merrimack, NH); and Gerry Williams (Dunbarton, NH).
 Cup by Steve Cunliffe
A series of free clay artist demonstration are scheduled at the Downtown Gallery, located at 30 Grove St, in Peterborough, and are scheduled as follows:
Clay Artist Demonstrations at the Gallery
Saturdays, 7/9, 7/16, and 7/23 from noon-2pm
Free and Open to the Public
7/9- Shana Brautigam of Rooted in Clay: Hand building
7/16- James Mitschmyer : Printing in Clay
7/23- Liz Fletcher: Clay sculpture
Further information may be obtained by calling Sharon Arts at 603/924-2787.
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This exhibit 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 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 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 and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, The Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation, The Putnam Foundation, The Kingsbury Foundation, and art lovers like you!
About the New Hampshire Potter’s Guild
We are an inclusive organization for people working in clay. We have an address but no central location. We meet several times a year with organizational meetings, workshops, discussions and activities to share work and ideas. We have a commitment to education and community action. We’ve been in existence for several decades and are always looking towards the future.
The purpose of the NHPG is to get together in the interests of ceramics whenever necessary or desirable for fellowship and good times, exchange of ideas and methods, collaboration in work and exhibitions, encouragement to students, and promotion of standards of ethics, aesthetics and craftsmanship.
www.nhpottersguild.com
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By awall ( May 19, 2011 at 12:08 pm) · Filed under Press Releases, Uncategorized, nh art event, nh art gallery, nh artists, photography show, robert sargent fay, sharon arts, sharonarts.org
Photographer and Professor Robert Sargent Fay to discuss “Photography as Theater” at Sharon Arts June 2nd
Perception, imagination, and reflection. They’re all part of the theater of photography, says photographer and lecturer Robert Sargent Fay of Hancock, in a talk at Sharon Arts Center’s Exhibition Gallery. This free public program will take place on Thursday, June 2, 5:30-7:00pm.
 Bob Fay Fay’s topic will be “Photography as Theatre: Perception- Memory- Reflection.” In his presentation, Fay will explore and discuss his personal journey of exploring the possibilities of theatre in photography. He will also detail how many other photographers have made good use of the theatrical possibilities of their chosen medium. In describing his own journey, Fay will discuss personal projects on Emily Dickinson, the Lewis and Clark Exhibition, the Amish Community of Lancaster County, and the life and writings of Henry David Thoreau. He will illustrate his lecture with original prints and projected images. He will also make reference to SAC’s current exhibition CLICK: Contemporary Responses to Photographic Masterworks.
Professor of English at Landmark College, Putney, Vermont, Mr. Fay is a consultant to Ken Burns and Florentine Films, producers of a recent documentary on the life of Mark Twain. He also the author of Ocean in View! O! the Joy. A Collection of Photographs of the American West.
Professor Fay’s lecture will be held at 5:30pm on June 2nd, in the Center’s Depot Square Galleries. Admission is free and open to the public. No reservations are required. For further information, 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.
 Photo by Robert Sargent Fay The Sharon Exhibition Gallery is located on Grove Street in Downtown Peterborough. Downtown hours are: Monday-Saturday 10am-6pm and Sunday 11am-5pm.
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, The Putnam Foundation and art lovers like you!
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By awall ( May 3, 2011 at 9:17 am) · Filed under Press Releases, Uncategorized, new hampshire business committee, nh art event, nh art gallery, nh art school, nh artists, sharon arts, sharonarts.org
Sharon Arts Center Selected as Non-Profit Partner by New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts for Annual Awards Gala May 16, 2011 in Manchester, NH
The Sharon Arts Center is pleased to announce their selection by the New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts as their showcase partner for the 27th Annual Business in the Arts Award Gala to be held at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester, NH on Monday, May 16th at 5:30 pm. As the event’s showcase partner, Sharon Arts will select and display a different work of art by a juried New Hampshire artist at each table as a reminder to attendees of the beauty and diversity of New Hampshire’s artists and crafters.
 Porcelain Teapot by SAC juried crafter Sibylle Tornow of Merrimack, NH ($30) “At a time in our state where support for the arts is threatened, Sharon Arts Center is proud to participate as the featured organization in the 2011 Business in the Arts Awards gala,” said Melanie McDonald- Sharon Arts Center’s Director of Community Outreach and Communications. “So many businesses across the state provide strong financial and in-kind support to needy non-profits and it’s exciting to be such an integral part of an event that trumpets that message.”
The gala will also honor the thirty New Hampshire businesses nominated for this year’s awards. The evening highlights a celebration of business support for the arts and entertains with a performance showcase of drama, literature and music. The grand finale is the announcement of the award winners. For a list of this year’s nominated businesses, please visit the New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts website at http://www.nhbca.com.
“As we promote the role of arts and culture in sustaining vibrant communities we look to include those organizations who work in one region is a model for statewide focus. We chose the Sharon Arts Center as our featured organization to display centerpieces for the 2011 Business in the Arts Awards because of their excellent impact in the Monadnock region and leadership as such for the state,” stated Joan Goshgarian, director of the New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts.
For more information, or to reserve tickets for the May 16 gala, contact the NHBCA at 603 224-8300 or arts@nhbca.com. Tickets are $75 each; tables for 10 are $750.
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About the New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts
The New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts (NHBCA) was formed in 1985 to educate, motivate, and recognize business support of and participation in the arts. It has 60 dues paying members and operates a variety of programs and projects to encourage and involve businesses in the arts. http://www.nhbca.com/
About Sharon Arts Center
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 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!
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