The Sharon Arts center offers a wide variety of art classes and programs in the school facility in Sharon, NH. The mission of the Sharon Arts Center 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, and the promotion and sale of arts and crafts as well as through special programs and events. The New Hampshire Institute of Art is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.

Dedicated faculty promote intellectual and artistic development and teach students to respond artistically to contemporary social, political, and aesthetic issues. Its Certificate Programs and a Continuing Education program attract and engage community members from throughout New England. Join artist James Gurney in his studio as he shows you how he creates two dinosaur paintings for Scientific American magazine. A researched study on two of arts most fundamental themes, Color and Light bridges the gap between abstract theory and practical knowledge. The Institute offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree drawing undergraduate students from across the United States and Canada. James Gurney, New York Times best-selling author and artist of the Dinotopia series, follows Imaginative Realism with his second art-instruction book, Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter.

About the NH Institute of Art: Established in 1898 as the Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences, the New Hampshire Institute of Art has had a firm commitment to educating diverse traditional and nontraditional students in the fine arts.

James gurney the world of dinosaurs