“Facebook for Artists” Workshop at Sharon Arts
Empowers Artists with Promotional Tools- Scholarships Available

“Facebook for Artists,” an Artist Advancement workshop for artists, with Melanie McDonald will be presented on Saturday, March 5^th, 10:00am – 1:00pm  at the Sharon Arts School of Arts and Crafts, 457 Route 123, Sharon, NH. Artists, artisans, and those in marketing roles for arts organizations are invited to learn how to use Facebook to expand their communications. In a 3-hour workshop attendees will get an inside look at the explosive new social medium Facebook and explore its use as a free, medium for artists and art-related interests. We will learn to create Facebook events, invitations, albums, and discussions. Explore Facebook “insights” that provide information about the audience. Explore the interactive relationships between Facebook, websites, blogs, and other promotional tools. Learn new ways to engage and inform patrons, friends, “fans”, collaborators and potential customers while generating new interest in the artist’s “story”, studio practice, and work!

Advance registration is required and interested parties are encouraged to call 603-924-7256 or to register via email at register@sharonarts.org. The cost to attend

is $40 for Sharon Arts members, $55 for non-members. There are tuition scholarships available to artists in need of assistance. For information, please visit our scholarship section of our website www.sharonarts.org/education/scholarship-info or inquire via the number and email above.

About Melanie McDonald: Melanie McDonald is formerly museum educator for school, teacher, and family programs at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in CT. Additional studies include courses at Studio Art Centers International (Florence, Italy) the Brookfield Craft Center, and the Bank Street College of Education. As the former School Director and current Director of Community Outreach and Communications for Sharon Arts, Melanie is immersed in Facebook as one of many helpful marketing and communications tools.

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