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30 Grove Street Peterborough, NH 03458 Sharon Arts Center : Sharon Arts Center collaborates with the MacDowell Colony for Medal Day 2009 SAC Volunteers help artist John Bisbee and Wade Kavanaugh with an installation |
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PETERBOROUGH, NH - Sharon Arts Center (SAC) is collaborating with The MacDowell Colony through a volunteer effort to help artist
John Bisbee and Wade Kavanaugh with an installation for Medal Day 2009, held on Sunday, August 9th. Bisbee and Kavanaugh,
sculptors from Maine and New York, have designed a sculpture that will be installed from Wednesday through Saturday the week
before Medal Day.
"We're so pleased to be able to offer this opportunity to our students, volunteers, faculty, staff and artists," said Melanie McDonald, director of education at Sharon Arts. "To have the chance to work with two well-known sculptors and recent colonists is a rare one, and also gives participants a chance to meet other artists in the community and be a part of this important day." Volunteers will be "planting" metal, working with galvanized steel, and doing light construction. Volunteers of all levels of strength, ability and experience will be participating in this collaboration. The group will be working during the week from Wednesday through Saturday, and several people will assist at the event itself. Sharon Arts has had a long-standing relationship with The MacDowell Colony. They have welcomed SAC's Teen ArtAccess program to visit with colonists for several years. For more information on Sharon Arts and upcoming events and exhibitions, visit www.sharonarts.org. 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 Artist Member Gallery, and an Exhibition Gallery in the Depot Square facility. 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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