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Updated 5/3/2024

Nancy Grace Horton: Learning to See

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    NH

Institution/Business Type: Artist / Creative (Individual)

Nancy Grace Horton's Learning to See programs are school and community participatory projects that simultaneously teach the history and art of photography and document local events, traditions, neighborhoods, and or can be self-exploration for each student.


Learning To See programs take place over several days, include from a dozen to hundreds of students, and involve participants in learning new skills, exploring their environments, and appreciating their culture.

During the programs, individual participants gain new artistic skills as they learn to look at their world through the lens of a camera or use history methods of image making, all project a taylored to the school or community.

When viewed as a whole, the combined images become a photographic record of a community's environment and culture that is discussed by the participants and displayed to the public in exhibits and books. Outcome can be photographic exhibitions, handmade books, individual images, and large mosaics and can have a focus on the town, school, personal identity, or work alongside the curriculum, for instance, Farm to Fork.

The newest topic and component is Dress Codes and paper dolls.  See more here:



Learning to See projects have been conducted since 2001 both locally, (Concord Monitor-Better than homework: Hopkinton students snap pictures of their daily lives) (Concord Monitor- Portsmouth Photographer begins Residency)(Spotlight -Capturing Sights of Interest/Profile, Herald -Portsmouth Middle School Kids Get the Picture), as well as internationally, (Learning to See the project in Mexico,Banderas News.).

 

Send an inquiry to begin tailoring a Learning to See project. to ngh@hortonphoto.com

Find Me

Nancy Grace Horton
Job Title: Photographer/Artist/Educator
Phone: 603-431-5923
Address:
Portsmouth, NH 03801

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About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Year Founded:

2001

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Year Founded:

2001

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Visual/Crafts - Photography

Additional Disciplines:

  • Visual/Crafts - Photography

Activities and Services

Activities and Services:

  • Art Sales
  • Arts Instruction / Lessons
  • Creation of a Work of Art (Including Commissions)
  • Curriculum Development
  • Exhibitions
  • Portfolio Review
  • Residency - Community
  • Residency - In School
  • Workshops / Demonstrations / Master Class

Communities

Populations Engaged:

  • Adults
  • Businesses
  • Elders
  • Families
  • General Public
  • Immigrant Populations
  • Incarcerated (or Formerly Incarcerated) individuals
  • LGBTQ Populations
  • Native American Tribes
  • Nonprofits
  • People with Disabilities
  • School Groups
  • Teens
  • Veteran/Active Duty Military Personnel
  • Youth-At-Risk

Geographic Reach:

  • Town / City
  • County
  • Multi-County Region
  • State
  • Multi-State Region
  • National
  • International

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I Have Worked With

Somersworth Middle School, NH

Learning to See: Farm to Fork, Cyanotypes made into pillows, and quilt, Handmade Photo Books of garden.

Kingston Elementary School, NH

Learaning to See: W/ ipads, Exhibit and Slide show

Hopkinton Middle School, NH

Learning to See: Cyanotyes, Hand Made Photo Books

Portsmouth High School, NH

Learning to See Book Project.

Affiliations and Accomplishments

Awards

Awards:

  • New Hampshire Cultural Commission Grant
  • New Hampshire State Council on the Arts

Awards

Awards:

  • New Hampshire Cultural Commission Grant
  • New Hampshire State Council on the Arts

Education

Education:

  • MFA, Visual Arts, Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University

Artist Info

State Arts Agency Roster Artist

  • New Hampshire Education Roster

State Arts Agency Roster Artist

  • New Hampshire Education Roster