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Forum for Visual Artists with Disabilities
This event will offer cultural employers and visual artists of all abilities the opportunity to network and participate in a series of sessions designed to provide them with tools and resources to heighten the awareness of each others needs.
Featuring Margaret Bodell as keynote speaker
Event Highlights:
- Strengthening the Relationship between Employers and Visual Artists with Disabilities … a panel discussion
- Networking opportunities—one on one discussions with experts in technology, portfolio review, curating.
- Performance Showcase — highlights from artists with disabilities
- Luncheon reception—network with your peers and meet the artists; light fare and drink will be provided
Margaret Bodell
For over 25 years Margaret Bodell has been a pioneer in the movement of inclusion in the artworld and championed creative vocations for persons with disabilities. She has launched and developed community based galleries and projects such as NYC’s Pure Vision Arts and Brooklyn’s LAND gallery in an effort to create opportunities and career development for those who wish to persue professional careers as artists and artisans.
Art works by visual artists with disabilities will be exhibited.
Presented by the Cultural Access Network, A co-sponsored project of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and Very Special Arts New Jersey.
This event is perfect for ADA Coordinators, teaching artists, education directors, program directors, casting directors, artistic personnel, those who work with seniors, visual artists with disabilities, and those who wish to have their knowledge and experience heightened as it relates to artists with disabilities. This event is an ideal step towards reaching your ADA plan goals in the area of employment and education.
Where and When:
Middletown Arts Center: 36 Church street, Middletown NJ. Visit the Middletown Arts Center website
May 25, 2010: Noon — 4pm
FREE - pre-registration required
to pre-register, contact Robert Carr at the New Jersey Theatre Alliance:
rcarr@njtheatrealliance.org
NJ Relay 711
973.731.6582 ext. 15
Forum Partner:
Funding made possible in part by:
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The Cultural Access Network is a co-sponsored project of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts / Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.