Posted Monday July 17 2017 at 1:25 pm
Photo credit: Candace Walker Photography
Marian Taylor Brown; a recognized arts leader and innovator in greater Boston, is joining VSA Massachusetts as an organizational consultant.
Marian will support the team during leadership transitions as Charlie Washburn retires, and Nicole Agois assumes the position of Managing Director. Later in the year she will work with the team to lead a strategic planning process, building the organization's capacity to best serve its mission and to expand its impact in Boston, and across Massachusetts.
Marian first worked with VSA Massachusetts in 2011 as a Research Intern while completing her Ed.M. at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She also exhibited as a featured solo artist in the Open Door Gallery in 2012. In 2014, she moved back to Boston after completing a Global Health Corps Fellowship in Malawi, and founded a local non-profit called "Arts Connect International", which has been incubated by VSA Massachusetts for the past three years, finding great mission alignment between the two organizations. Marian also worked as a Teaching Artist for VSA at Boston Green Academy in 2014 – 2015. In sum, her work and passion intersect equity, the arts, human rights, intersectionality, research, and practice.
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Posted Monday April 17 2017 at 2:46 pm
Marty Harris -- a painter who has exhibited in the past at the Open Door Gallery -- and Adele, Marty's service dog, will be featured in a documentary called Letting Go of Adele It's a story of the first cardiac alert team to graduate from Canine Partners for Life. Adele has been Marty's constant companion, saving her life every day for 9 years, and the film shares an intimate look at their partnership, leading up to Adele's inevitable retirement, and what comes next for Marty.
You can see Letting Go of Adele at Independent Film Festival Boston (IFFBoston), Somerville Theater, Sunday, April 30th, 2017 at 4:30. The film's director Melissa Dowler, the founder of Canine Partners For Life Darlene Sullivan, and Marty Harris will have a panel discussion after the movie.
Learn more at the film's website.
Purchase tickets at IFFBoston's website.
Posted Thursday April 06 2017 at 4:34 pm
An innovative resource for public and private school music educators, the Teaching Music to Students on the Autism Spectrum Conference is a two-day event that will address important topics, such as:
- Current research in Autism
- Strategies for teaching music to individuals on the Autism Spectrum
- How people with autism learn and perceive music
- Working effectively with students on the autism spectrum and their families
- Using iPads to make and create music with students on the Autism Spectrum
The conference will take place April 28-29, 2017. Presented by Boston Conservatory, founders of Boston Conservatory program for students on the autism spectrum. For more information and to register, visit the Boston Conservatory website.
