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Don't Quit Your Day Job

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Don’t Quit Your Day Job: Artwork from Local Day Programs for Adults with Disabilities
Arnheim Gallery
September 19 to October 7, 2011.
Reception:   September 21, 5 to 7pm.
Gallery talk:  Wednesday October 5, 5:30pm

The work is from Gateway Arts, Outside the Lines and Webster House, three unique facilities where artists with various disabilities create work on a vocational basis. These programs are valuable not only for the vocational opportunities afforded to the participants, but in the aesthetic opportunities afforded to the work. Rather than focusing primarily on craft or technique, the programs encourage participants to create the type of work that interests them, working with, rather than against, each artist’s particular abilities and limitations. The resulting work is diverse, accessible and engaging.

River Cortes (MSAE 2002) curated this show.

Congratulations!

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Ariel Rosenblum, Art Education major, was chosen for a  Summer 2008 $3,000 Unpaid Internship Award 
Ariel  (Art Ed/Fibers, ’09) will be an intern at Gateway Arts, in Brookline, MA.

Gateway Arts is a unique non-profit organization that empowers adults who have developmental disabilities, head injuries, visual and hearing impairments, and psychiatric disorders. Gateway’s Studio Program, Crafts Store and Gallery enable these adults to make a professional living as artists. Ariel will be assisting artists who have various
disabilities in the studio and will give support to teachers when needed. She will learn how the teachers facilitate the studio spaces and specifically how they help the artists overcome challenges and grow. Ariel found her internship from “word of mouth and the internet.”

GatewayArts Website