Sharon Arts Collaboration With New Hampshire Association for the Blind Featured on WMUR’s NH Chronicle November 22nd

Peterborough, NH:// Sharon Arts is excited to announce that the Channel 9, WMUR TV’s New Hampshire Chronicle program will feature Sharon Arts Center on Monday, November 22^nd. The show, which airs at 7:30PM, will have a spotlight segment which filmed at the non-profit gallery in October. The focus of the segment will be the success of a recent exhibition “Art With Feeling: Touch, Look, Listen,” which was a special collaboration between Sharon Arts Center and the Concord-based nonprofit partner New Hampshire Association for the Blind. The New Hampshire Association for the Blind’s mission is, “To advance the independence of persons who are blind and visually impaired.”

“Art With Feeling: Touch, Look, Listen,” considered a groundbreaking exhibition for the Center and their collaborator, was on view from September 3^rd to October 30, 2010. This special exhibition was specifically designed to remove barriers to experiencing art, especially for people who are blind or visually impaired and to raise awareness of the need for heightened accessibility to fine art in different locales statewide. In addition October was National Art Beyond Sight month, providing the collaborators with rich opportunities to collaborate programmatically and to raise awareness of the need for increased accessibility to art for all.
“Sharon Arts Center is delighted to be featured on New Hampshire Chronicle along with our partner the New Hampshire Association for the Blind,” Commented Melanie McDonald, Sharon Art Center’s Director of Community Outreach and Communications. “We are proud of our partnership and the meaningful ways that this exhibition engaged visitors from all over New Hampshire and New England!”

Further information is available by calling 603-924-7256.

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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 in the Depot Square facility.

The Sharon Arts Craft Shop is located in Depot Square in Downtown Peterborough. Store hours are: Monday – Saturday, 10am – 6pm, Sunday, 12 noon – 6pm. See website for holiday hours.

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

About New Hampshire Association for the Blind

Mission: “To advance the independence of persons who are blind and visually impaired.”

www.sightcenter.org