Juried show continues to July 7

SHARON >> The Sharon Historical Society & Museum is pleased to announce that style icon and lifestyle aficionado Carolyne Roehm will judge the upcoming show in The Gallery @the SHS, “No Place Like Home,” a juried exhibition and sale of artworks which express the artists’ conceptions of the themes Home or Family. The show opened with a reception and awards ceremony for artists and the public will run through July 7, 2017.

Roehm has been part of American design culture for over four decades, with a career spanning the fashion, gardening, entertaining, publishing and decorative arts worlds. She has, in addition, been a discriminating collector of art, at one time owning work by artists such as Renoir and Sargent, and is a gifted and accomplished photographer and watercolor artist in her own right. Having earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Washington University, Roehm is known for her discerning eye, passion for beauty and innate sense of style. It has been said that Roehm has a curator’s zeal for the decorative arts and a couturier’s obsession with detail. ‘

In 2016, Southern Lady Magazine noted “She finds inspiration in the way the sun dances through a field of flowers and the patterns fallen leaves make on the roof of her glasshouse.”

Writing in Architectural Digest, Roehm observed “sense of place inspires.” Roehm is the author of a dozen books, including At Home, At Home in the Garden, and her series of four seasonal Notebooks: Garden, Hearth, Traditions, Home.

She was once quoted as saying “The things that bring life into a room – music, candles, flowers, dogs – that’s what makes a room memorable.”

The judge will select the art to be exhibited and award cash prizes of $100, $75, and $50 to three pieces. In addition, guests who attend the show’s opening night will have the opportunity to select their favorite work of art which will receive the “SHS Crowd Pleaser” award.