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VSA Gallery Exhibit Schedule
November 23, 2001-January 2002:Community, Pride and
Empowerment: The Disability Culture
December 1, 2001: "Opening Doors"
Offsite Exhibits
(TBA)
Very
Special Arts Gallery
Art without boundaries
A
Special Initiative of VSA arts of New Mexico
The
Very Special Arts Gallery
presents exhibitions celebrating the creative power of artists with
disabilities.
The arts provide an avenue for expressing the experience of having a disability
and provide one of the most important articulations of the lives of persons with
disabilities. The Gallery
opens the doors to VSA
arts, showcasing the lively and expressive art created in the Enabled Studio Arts Program and selected work by other artists with
disabilities. "Visionary,
outsider, insightful, vibrant, powerful" are just a few of the words
used to describe the work exhibited in the on-site Gallery at the VSA
arts Center of New
Mexico and
in community settings throughout New Mexico.
The Gallery also offers professional development opportunities for
emerging artists including career development workshops, training in the
business of art from matting and framing to curating and sales, and work
experience, supported employment, volunteer, and internship venues.
Annual exhibition schedules explore the depth of disability culture and
illustrate that there are no limits to the creative expression of any
individual.
"Your
invitation to celebrate the artist in all of us!"
In
the Very Special Arts Gallery
Arts
Access Article Fall 2001
The
Gallery has had a busy and well attended year with exhibits changing monthly.
Up Coming events include: Other
Lives: Staff Exhibit will run from Oct 26 through mid-November. Come see the
varied work, in many media, of VSA’s talented staff.
Dec 1st, in conjunction with our “Opening Doors 2001” celebration the
gallery will host Disability Culture: Community, Pride and Empowerment.
The exhibit will feature well-known New Mexico artists including Alyce
Frank and the work of apprentice artists.
In the Gallery Shop you will find some wonderful items made by the
apprentice artists that make terrific gifts: felt hats, blank hand made paper
books, beaded key rings and new holiday cards are unique items to add to your
shopping. VSA arts is also showing
at the Weems Artfest November 9, 10, & 11 at the New Mexico State
Fairgrounds.
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