ArtISability is a Professional Development Visual Arts Program
I have designed for Artists with disability.
Artist's with disabilities face additional challengers as a result of their limitations. Artist may apply to join our program if they have a physical, intellectual, sensory, learning, behavioural, neurological disability and/or mental illness and they need support to join the mainstream arts community.
Some of the obstacles there artist may face are physical access to buildings where mainstream artist meet, public art galleries, educational and training opportunities, and transporting their work. Artist may struggle with written or verbal communication or require learning supports to complete training to further develop and refine their visual arts skills.
Mental illness and Behavioural disabilities bring challenges that dispute their daily routines. Periods of depression, anxiety and isolation make continuity in their art practice hard to maintain and forming professional relationships difficult. As an artist presentation and self marketing is essential.
Most artist I know struggle with their self-image and self-worth. Producing our artworks is like giving birth. To criticize our work is to criticize our inner being. Yet to achieve and make a living we must expose ourselves to the critics.
However none of these challengers are a difficult to overcome as our task of public education and overriding negative energy and attitudes towards us and our craft. Life as an artist is isolating, so too can be living with disability. We we don't isolate ourselves the attitudes of others based on misinformation and misunderstanding can isolated us.
ArtISability seek to provide artist with disability professional development opportunities through removing the costs of being supported to undertake a three day training opportunity, and link them to the local art's community.
Our 2013 pilot visual art retreat program will be hosted at the Metro International Hotel in Ipswich CBD from the 4th to 6th October for Ipswich Residents Only,
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