12 April 2017: Kristen Shannon, Alison Crow - South Shore Arts Association
Members present: Dietrich Bilger, Janice Brown, Sue Heller, Walter Heller, Joe Kelley, JD Miller, Bart Nuboer, Joan Powers, Judy Price, Bob Price, Janet Schmitz, Lucille Sorrentino, Bernie Westerveld and Debbie Wheeler.
Guests present: speakers Kristen Shannon and Alison Crow of the South Shore Art Association.
Guests present: speakers Kristen Shannon and Alison Crow of the South Shore Art Association.
April 21: White Back Monochrome Reception, 6pm - 8pm
April 22: Second Rev. Raymond Helmick, SJ memorial lecture on religion and conflict transformation on Saturday, 6 pm Boston College at Devlin 008 Rev. Jesse Jackson-Key note Speaker)
April 29: Concert: Hayden's The Creation (Harvard Memorial Church, Cambridge, MA, 7:30pm-9:30pm (free event!)
April 28-30: Multi-District Conference, Providence RI (Registration via District 7950 website)
April 30: Luncheon & Spring Fashion Show - 12:45pm @ Lombardo's, Randolph, MA (Benefit Ruth House, Teen Parenting Program, Ascentria Care Alliance)
June 23: Installation of Steven Certa as District Governor
The Rotary Club of Scituate welcomed from the South Shore Arts Center Allison Crowe, Community Program Director and Kristen Sherman, Director of Development as speakers.
The South Shore Art Center enriches the South Shore supporting the visual arts by allowing and facilitating artists to speak and communicate with the communities through their work. It not only enables the dialogue between artists and their appreciation or concerns that are part of our lives to reach their audience though some 20 exhibitions per year but also encourages and teaches the communication among people through the arts by providing arts classes and working with educators in the school systems to ensure art remains part of the educational curriculum necessary to develop the minds and variety of skills of young people and is being appreciated for what it can contribute to our quality of life.
As part of this effort the South Shore Arts Center provides some 120 classes and workshops per year for adults and young people and maintains the tradition to hold art festivals (mark your calendar June 15th at the Cohasset Commons).
An additional outreach is the dialogue between the South Shore Art Center and the schools to combine the teaching of expression through the arts with a school curriculum on history or current events by encouraging students (and teachers) to point through art to the plights and concerns within our society like the present refugee crisis, for example, or the issue of child soldiers, for example.
Encouraged by the invitation of Kristen to suggest further areas where such communication could take place a very live discussion ensued to develop an international project working with the schools, for example, that are sponsored by the Rotary Club in Afghanistan.
