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• "What I See" Exhibit by Dominic Killiany - Open Door Gallery @ Worcester Art Museum - Final 2 Weeks
  Dominic Killiany is a 20-year-old man living with autism.  This interpretation of the world reflects his knowledge of order, balance, and symmetry with a touch of abstract
• Beyond the Spectrum - MFA Boston
  Museum of Fine Arts Boston invites you to Beyond the Spectrum , a specially designed program for children and teens with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Classes meet on select
• Arts and the Brain: A Symposium on the Healing Power of the Arts
  Join us September 22, 2017 at the Worcester Art Museum for a day-long symposium exploring the role that the arts can play in helping people with acquired brain injury cope
• Call for Art - "Breaking Barriers" hosted by Mass. Office on Disability
  The Massachusetts Office on Disability (MOD) is now accepting submissions for its 2017 Call for Art and juried art exhibition.  We are calling on talented Massachusetts re
• Kennedy Center Special Ed: NAEA National Convention 2017
  Our colleague, Jenna Gabriel, Manager of Special Education at VSA International, shares some important learnings and a call for action in this blog post. Arts education ma
• Creative Minds for ABI Survivors - Open Door Gallery, Worcester Art Museum
  A monthly casual social art experience for adults with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI).  Engage with the world of art by creating art through studio experiences led by knowled
• Open Door Gallery Presents Greg Rogers - Meaning, Life, and the Search for Light
  Greg Rogers uses acrylic, oil pastels, Chalk, and india ink on paper, offering a mixed media of rich textures and lively color contrasts.  Greg uses his feet to accomplish
• Meet the Teaching Artist - Kyle Browne
  I am a visual artist and educator.  As a teaching artist I use hands-on visual inquiry, imagination, collaboration and critiquing as a way to engage students more deeply i
• Open Door Gallery at the Worcester Art Museum
  Adam R. Rozan, Director of Audience Engagement at Worcester Art Museum, writes: One of the most important priorities at the Worcester Art Museum is to increase accessibili
• Handmade Holiday Market - Now Thru Dec. 22, 2016. Reception - Dec. 8th 4-7pm
  Shop this holiday season at the state's alternative craft and art market.  Handmade Holiday Market features scarves, jewelry, cards, original artwork, photos, and other gi
• Meet the Teaching Artist: Faith Johnson
  I am a community artist who uses both individual and collaborative art making and mixed mediums to create and facilitate installation, 2D, 3D, interactive sculpture, and f
• Symposium on Art for Cultural Inclusion
  Co-hosted by Arts Connect International and UMass Boston, this innovative symposium showcases the work of ACI's artists, local artists, as well as some of the talent of th
• Outside the Lines Studio 4th Annual Haunted House
  Our good friends at Outside the Lines Studio (OTL) are holding their 4th annual haunted house October 29, 2016 from 6-10pm. Outside the Lines Art Director, Wallis Welsh: "
• Meet the Teaching Artist: K. Lee Mock
  I am a visual artist, primarily working with drawing and painting media.  My studio and en plein air practice is both reactionary and reflective.  I observe the moving ext
• 2016 Artist Market at Boston Abilities Expo
  VSA is again proud to sponsor the Artist Market at the 2016 Boston Abilities Expo . Visit the Market to meet VSA artists and see a unique selection of beautiful fine art a
• Disability and Intersectionality Art Exhibit - Call for Art
  Art has long been a powerful medium for individuals to convey messages and concepts that may otherwise be difficult to express.  Have you ever wondered how your individual
• Jon Sarkin Exhibit "The Unchained Brain" at Open Door Gallery. Reception May 5, 2016 4-7pm
  Photo by Jared Charney Jon Sarkin is a prolific, even compulsive, artist who creates elaborate drawings and paintings.  After a life-altering brain injury, Sarkin became o
• Boston's Museum of Fine Arts Program "Beyond the Spectrum"
  Boston's Museum of Fine Arts offers an artful healing program called Beyond the Spectrum specially designed for children ages 8-12 on the Autism Spectrum, including Asperg
• Arts Connect International Recruiting for Artist-in-Residence Program
  Arts Connect International launched it's applications for the 2016 - 2017 Artist-in-Residence program.  Do you have a vision for social change?  Do you know of great artis
• Dew Jareanvai Art Reception at Dot 2 Dot Café
  Our good friend Dew Jareanvai has an art exhibit titled "Nature's Voices" happening now at Dot 2 Dot Café in Dorchester. There will be an art reception April 21, 2016 from
• Boston Creates - Town Hall Meeting
  After sharing the initial findings from the community engagement phase back in November, the Boston Creates team has been hard at work analyzing the data and refining the
• The Arts in Early Childhood: Social and Emotional Benefits of Arts Participation
  The National Endowment for the Arts recently released a report entitled The Arts in Early Childhood: Social and Emotional Benefits of Arts Participation . The report is a
• Handmade Holiday Market Artist Spotlight - Lisa Corfman
  Guest blog post by Lisa Corfman, an artist currently exhibiting at the Open Door Gallery's Handmade Holiday Market.  Lisa is founder and owner of Rocky Arts Unfolded . Fin
• Very COOL Partnership - VSA Hosts Duskin Trainee in COOL Schools Program
  This past semester VSA MA partnered with the Duskin Disability Leadership Program at UMass Boston's Institute for Community Inclusion by hosting one of its 2015 trainees. 
• SAGE Crossing Foundation Seeks Visual Arts Teacher for Adults with Disabilities
  SAGE Crossing Foundation is looking for a teacher for adults with a range of disabilities for the visual arts for two days a week in January and February.  The participant
• Practical Steps to Making a Career in the Arts Possible
  Craig Dunn, VSA Minnesota's Executive Director, was asked to put together some thoughts for a webinar on how young people with disabilities might approach making a career
• Art is for Everyone Exhibit and Opening Reception
  Cape Cod CAN's Fall 2015 "Art is for Everyone" exhibit runs from November 11 to 22, 2015 at Cultural Center of Cape Cod, 307 Old Main Street, South Yarmouth.  Opening rece
• Help Shape Boston's Creative Community
  Boston Creates , Boston's cultural planning process, draws from a theoretical framework of creative capital, developed by WolfBrown .  Creative capital is based on the ide
• Artist Market at the 2015 Boston Abilities Expo
  VSA is proud to sponsor the Artist Market at the 2015 Boston Abilities Expo . Visit the Market to meet VSA artists and see a unique selection of beautiful fine art and cra
• Open Door Gallery Exhibit "Shades of Inclusion"
  The Open Door Gallery presents "Shades of Inclusion" now through November 13, 2015.  Artist Leaders from Arts Connect International unpack what inclusion means to each of
• Call for N. E. Artists: Walter Feldman Fellowship for Emerging Artists
  The Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston announced a call for entries for the second year of the Walter Feldman Fellowship for Emerging Artists.  This program support
• Teacher Art Retreat 2015
  The Teacher Art Retreat is a chance to get away and work within the arts.  It is three days of experiences put together to relax, create and discover more about yourself a
• Boston Museum of Fine Arts - "Beyond the Spectrum" Program
  Boston Museum of Fine Arts offers their Beyond the Spectrum program as part of Artful Healing.  The program includes an art tour and activity for children 8-12 years of ag
• Gateway Artists "Up the Ladder" Reception at the Open Door Gallery
  A group exhibition of artists who have participated in the "Up The Ladder" program at Gateway Arts .  Through grants and private donations, over the past two years these a
• Bringing Cape Cod Together Piece by Piece
  Join Cape Cod Collaborative Arts Network (CapeCodCAN!) at the unveiling of this breathtaking mosaic.  The 8 foot by 9 foot mosaic was developed by 150 creative Cape Cod in
• Free Webinar: The Art of Self-Expression
  The goals of this webinar are to support the attendees to make the visual arts a daily form of self-expression for individuals with mild to severe physical, intellectual a
• Town Meeting to Discuss Boston's Creative Future
  Boston Creates , under the leadership of Mayor Martin J. Walsh, is a community-wide effort to harness Boston's creativity to build a shared vision for arts and culture.  Y
• Arts and a Changing Boston, Featuring Dr. Manuel Pastor
  Barr Foundation, Klarman Family Foundation, and TDC present: Arts and a Changing Boston, Featuring Dr. Manuel Pastor Already a majority-minority city, Boston's demographic
• The Arts Leading the Way to Student Success
  Arts Education Partnership recently added a great resource to its website: "The Arts Leading the Way to Student Success: A 2020 Action Agenda for Advancing the Arts in Edu
• Shoe Town Art Center of Haverhill Offers Accessible Pottery Class
  Having recently moved to an ADA compliant facility with wheelchair accessibility, Shoe Town Art Center of Haverhill is pleased to offer pottery classes which include the a
• Yo Soy...Je Suis...I Am...The Future
  VSA's Yo Soy...Je Suis...I Am...The Future invites children from around the world to imagine their future! What: Students with disabilities are invited to share images of
• ArtWeek Boston #ArtBar! at Open Door Gallery
  #ArtBar!  Bringing community together for laughter and libations through art.  Join us at the Open Door Gallery for a early evening/post-work event full of art making, soc
• Call for Artists: Touch­able Sculp­ture for Albin Polasek Museum in Florida
  The Albin Polasek Museum & Sculp­ture Gar­dens is now accept­ing sub­mis­sions for the 2015 – 2016 Exhi­bi­tion "Sight Unseen: Touch­able Sculp­ture". Sight Unseen is a sc
• CTC Studio: Creating Inclusive Learning Environments
  What role can the arts play in building more inclusive learning environments? Recorded April 10, 2015 in the CTC ( Continuing the Conversation ) Studio, Harvard University
• VSA Massachusetts Seeking Teaching Artists for COOL Schools Program
  VSA Massachusetts is seeking Teaching Artists for our Creative Outlook On Learning (COOL) Schools Program who are interested in creating arts-integrated learning experienc
• 6th Annual Arts in Healthcare Conference at Lesley University
  In the global society in which we live, the arts open pathways to understanding and communication between peoples.  In addition, the arts are channels for creativity and c
• Jeffrey Melzack's Teachable Moments Artist Reception at Open Door Gallery
  Join us at the Open Door Gallery for Jeffrey Melzack's "Teachable Moments" artist reception. "Melzack uses colored pencil, watercolor and oils in landscapes and symbolic o
• Youth Art Month Starts Today!
  Youth Art Month is an annual observance each March to emphasize the value of art education for all children and to encourage support for quality school art programs.  Yout
• Sign the Arts in Action Petition to Governor Baker
  A message from Matt Wilson, Executive Director of MASSCreative . As a supporter of the creative community, you know that arts and culture aren't just nice, but a necessary
• Creativity - A Showcase of Artwork from Seven Hills Foundation Artists
  You are invited to the opening of Creativity—a showcase of artwork from the artists of Seven Hills Foundation.  The Creativity Exhibit is part of ASPiRE!'s new Curator-in-
• Harmony/和 with Mihoko, Sumiyo and Tomo
  Our good friend Mihoko Wakabayashi of SAORI Worcester along with Sumiyo Toribe and Tomo Sakai will exhibit their work together in a group show entitled "Harmony/和" at the
• Creative Access: Residencies for Visual Artists & Writers with Spinal Cord Injury
  The Alliance of Artists Communities is partnering with the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation to provide 12 residencies for visual artists and writers with Spinal Cord Injuries (
• Ten Lessons The Arts Teach
  SOURCE: Eisner, E. (2002).  The Arts and the Creation of Mind , In Chapter 4, What the Arts Teach and How It Shows.  (pp. 70-92).  Yale University Press.  Available from N
• We Are COOL All-Stars: Converse Collaborates with VSA's COOL Schools Program
  This is a guest blog post by Aysha Upchurch , Ed.M. candidate at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, currently interning with VSA Mass. On Friday, December 12, 2014, s
• Handmade Holiday Market - Now Thru Dec. 23, 2014.  Reception - Dec. 5th  4-7pm.
  Shop this holiday season at the state's alternative craft and art market.  Handmade Holiday Market features scarves, jewelry, felted ornaments, cards, paintings, and other
• Kennedy Center Announces Winter 2014/2015 Artist Opportunities
  Competition: 16th Annual Great American Song Contest Deadline: November 20, 2014 Are you ready to get your songs heard and reviewed by experienced music-industry pros?  Ar
• Boston Jewish Film Festival - "Jon Imber's Left Hand" at Museum of Fine Arts
  Jon Imber's Left Hand by Richard Kane (2014, 62 minutes).  A documentary of the last year in the life of the valiant, renowned Somerville-based artist Jon Imber, who suffe
• Arts in Special Education Consortium Launches Resources Section
  The Arts in Special Education Consortium recently announced their launch of a Resources Section . Browse through seven different categories, ranging from Specific Disabili
• Read All About it!  COOL Schools Report 13/14 Now Available!
  COOL highlights from last year:   - COOL grew from 2,023 to 2,445 students, 12 to 17 schools and 106 to 170 teachers.   - We started Embodying Literacy, our first yearlong
• Embodying Literacy: Professional Learning Community
  A professional learning community tailored to your needs as an arts educator . . . - Learn effective inclusive strategies using the arts. - Collaborate with peer arts educ
• VSA MA ArtWeek Boston Events
  ArtWeek Boston is an initiative of the Citi Performing Arts Center , whose mission is to be a champion for nonprofit innovation in Boston and provide arts and entertainmen
• On the Wall at Boston City Hall
  Raine Newman of Waltham, MA is curating an art exhibit to be held on the second floor of Boston City Hall.  The public is welcome to visit Monday through Friday from 9am t
• Volunteer at the Abilities Expo Artist Market
  Join us and volunteer at the upcoming Abilities Expo !  We'll have an Artist Market , and we'll be selling unique handmade crafts and artwork.  The Expo will be at the Sea
• Missed the Gallery's Brush Works Exhibit?  Audio Description, Transcript Available
  If you missed the Open Door Gallery's "Brush Works" exhibit of paintings by Lauren Geraghty and Emily Malin, you can still experience the show by listening to the audio de
• The Open Door Gallery Presents Sidewalk Sam - "Out My Window"
  Sidewalk Sam, the popular artist dedicated to creating art at the feet of pedestrians to inspire, promote spirit, enrich daily life, and address social issues.  Sidewalk S
• Join in the Creative Explosion
  Are you an artist? Are you an actor? Are you a storyteller? Are you a poet? Creative Explosion brings together young actors and storytellers with disabilities and those wi
• I Am A Part of Art - CATA Art Show & Poetry Reading
  The Berkshire Museum is hosting Community Access to the Arts' "I Am a Part of Art" Annual Art Show & Poetry Reading. When : July 24 – August 23, 2014 with an opening recep
• 24th Anniversary of The ADA - Poetry Slam & Art Exhibition
  Come celebrate the 24th anniversary of the ADA. July 23, 2014 Institute for Human Centered Design 200 Portland St. Boston, MA 02114 6:30-7:00 PM Refreshments and Art Exhib
• 2014 VSA Intersections: Arts and Special Education Conference
  Through innovative and thought-provoking, dynamic and interactive sessions, participants of the 2014 VSA Intersections: Arts and Special Education Conference will explore
• Meet the Teaching Artist: Kristine Biegel
  For the past seven Mondays, with only 5 more to go, I have traveled from Maine to Mattapan's Ellison Parks Elementary School to work with K0-K1 students as a Teaching Arti
• Call for Submissions - Artists and Poets with Disabilities
  The New England ADA Center, a project of the Institute for Human Centered Design, seeks artists with disabilities for a June 26, 2014 through July 28, 2014 art exhibition
• ArtWeek Boston Event with Lauren Geraghty and Emily Malin at Open Door Gallery
  In association with Third Sector New England, VSA's Open Door Gallery presents an ArtWeek Boston event Friday, April 25, 2014 at 6pm.  Try your hand at a form of artistic
• Kennedy Center Announces Spring 2014 Artist Opportunities
  Call For Entries: Rochester Contemporary Art Center "6x6x2014" Show Deadline: April 20, 2014 Rochester Contemporary Art Center’s (RoCo) international small art phenomenon
• "Sustaining/Creating", National Juried Exhibition, At Open Door Gallery Through April 16, 2014
  The Open Door Gallery presents "Sustaining/Creating" which is the 11th exhibition by VSA and Volkswagen Group of America as part of the Kennedy Center's annual Emerging Ar
• Meet the Teaching Artist: Kathleen McNamara
  
• Kennedy Center Announces Winter 2014 Artist Opportunities
  The VSA and Accessibility Office at the Kennedy Center put together this list of performing and visual arts opportunities. The Mitchell Gallery Deadline: January 31, 2014
• Meet the Teaching Artist: Sarah Sharp
  
• Meet the Teaching Artist: Wilhelmina Peragine
  As a teaching artist, I aim to help young people develop a greater sense of their own agency, an increased ability to think from multiple perspectives and a flourishing lo
• CapeCodCAN! In The News
  CapeCodCAN! was featured in the news recently including the above Sandwich Community Television video with interviews of Jim Hurley, Managing Director and Tessa D'Agostino
• Webster House Gallery's Annual Exhibit and Holiday Card Sale
  Edward Fahey, SKY, Acrylic on Paper Webster House Gallery will be hosting an opening reception for their annual exhibit and holiday card sale on Tuesday, December 10 from
• The New York Times Asks "Why Shouldn't Prosthetics Be Works of Art"
  The New York Times - November 1, 2013 - "Far Out on a Limb" by Deirdre Dolan - Photographs by Nadav Kander Sophie de Oliveira Barata works out of a bright white, semidishe
• Handmade Holiday Market at the Open Door Gallery
  Shop this holiday season at the state's alternative craft and art market.  Handmade Holiday features scarves, jewelry, felted ornaments, cards, painting, and other gifts b
• "The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is very close to the center of a nation's purpose...and is a test of the quality of a nation's civilization." - John F. Kennedy, 1963
  Statement prepared for Creative America, 1963.  (Inscribed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts)
• Calling All Artists & Graphic Designers
  A message from Betsy Pillsbury, Disability Resource Coordinator, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital: We are seeking artists who are interested in creating a name and logo f
• Cape Cod C.A.N. Art is for Everyone Exhibition Opening Reception
  The Opening Reception for the Cape Cod Collaborative Arts Network (CapeCodCAN!) Art is for Everyone program is Saturday, November 9, 2013 and YOU ARE INVITED! Art is for E
• VSA Exhibition "In/finite Earth" Now at Smithsonian in Washington DC
  In/finite Earth is the twelfth exhibition of VSA and Volkswagen Group of America's annual Emerging Artists Program.  This longtime collaboration is an opportunity for visu
• Audio Description of Kimball Anderson's Exhibit "Inside/Outside" Now Available
  Audio Description provides access to visitors who are blind or have low vision by describing the Open Door Gallery and each piece in the exhibition.  Even though the tour
• Artweek Boston Events Include Open Door Gallery's Theatrical Presentation of Kimball Anderson's "I don't get it"
  ArtWeek Boston is an initiative of the Citi Performing Arts Center , whose mission is to be a champion for nonprofit innovation in Boston and provide arts and entertainmen
• ASL and ASL-Interpreted Events at Museum of Fine Arts
  American Sign Language tours with no spoken English - Free For visitors who are Deaf and fluent in American Sign Language and their invited guests. October 9, 2013, 6pm -
• Attend Abilities Expo Boston and Visit VSA MA at the Artist Market
  VSA MA is proud sponsor of the Artist Market at Boston Abilities Expo September 20-22, 2013 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center (Hall C).  In addition to us, ther
• Audio Description of Liz Doles' Sri Lanka Exhibit Now Available
  If you missed Liz Doles' Open Door Gallery Sri Lanka exhibit , you can now hear all about it . This summer we launched our volunteer Audio Describer program with two enthu
• CNET Features Story About Kimball Anderson's Comics
  Leslie Katz , Senior Editor of CNET's "Crave" section, authored a story published August 12, 2013 about Kimball Anderson and the artist's comics.  Kimball's exhibit "Insid
• The Open Door Gallery Presents Kimball Anderson - Inside/Outside
  The Open Door Gallery presents an exhibit which explores the separation of self and environment.  Kimball Anderson is an artist whose experiences of chronic fatigue syndro
• Join in the Creative Explosion: 3-Day Workshop Series
  Creative Explosion is a 3-Day Workshop Series open to young people 15+ with and without disabilities who want opportunity to play with theatrical improvisation, movement,
• Artists Beyond Challenge Exhibit Artwork in Boston Mayor Menino's Office
  A group of artists from Artists Beyond Challenge are exhibiting their artwork in the office of Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino.  The show is sponsored by the Mayor's Office
• CATA's "I Am a Part of Art" Opening Reception
  The Berkshire Museum is hosting Community Access to the Arts' "I Am a Part of Art" Annual Art Show & Poetry Reading in celebration of CATA's 20th Anniversary this year! Wh
• MFA Boston Talk - Art + Medicine: The Colors of Sound
  Have you ever wondered what it's like to hear color?  This Museum of Fine Arts gallery talk will unite art and medicine through a discussion of synesthesia, a neurologic c
• Legislators Launch Statewide Listening Tour Exploring the State of the Arts - MCC Press Release
  Contact: Samantha Schenk (617-722-2015) or Maria Syrniotis (617-722-1604) Legislators Launch Statewide Listening Tour to Explore the State of the Arts & Tourism in MA. Joi
• Visit the Open Door Gallery and Win a Free MFA Boston Ticket for Two
  We have free MFA Boston passes for the next ten visitors to VSA Massachusetts.  Come see "Sri Lanka: Pinhole Photography and Portraits" by Liz Doles at the Open Door Galle
• Liz Doles' Open Door Gallery Exhibit in Artscope
  Artscope magazine covered Fulbright artist, photographer and teacher, Liz Doles' exhibit "Sri Lanka: Pinhole Photographs and Portraits" at the Open Door Gallery in their r
• Free Arts Access Webinar
  Arts Access presents a webinar on methods for creating an inclusive arts education experience for students with physical disabilities and communication barriers . Presente
• Museum of Fine Arts - Free Memorial Day Community Weekend
  Boston's Museum of Fine Arts opens its doors - free of charge - to visitors from Boston and beyond for three days, May 25 to 27, 2013.  Enjoy special exhibitions - includi
• Upcoming Submission, Application, and Registration Deadlines
  Kennedy Center National Seminar for Teaching Artists Registration Deadline: May 31, 2013 VSA Playwright Discovery Competition Submission Deadline: June 1, 2013 Advanced Te
• Igniting Innovation . . . Creative Leadership and High-Impact Practices
  Arts|Learning and Lesley University Creativity Commons present "Igniting Innovation . . . Creative Leadership and High-Impact Practices". Speakers and panelists include: D
• A Different Vision - Tactile Art Show
  Plymouth Center for the Arts presents "A Different Vision" - Tactile Art Show. Opening Reception: May 11, 2013 7pm Exhibit: May 12 - June 1, 2013 Where: Plymouth Center fo
• Workshops for Musicians, Artists, and Arts Administrators
  The Arts & Business Council is sponsoring a series of workshops for musicians, artists, and arts administrators. Saturday, May 11, 10:00am - 11:45am Setting up Your Music
• CATA's 20th Annual Performance and Gala
  Celebrate CATA’s 20th anniversary by attending their their Annual Performance & Gala! When: Saturday, May 11 at 6pm & Sunday, May 12 at 1pm Where: Tina Packer Playhouse, S
• Blind Talent: Art Is More Than Vision
  The Cultural Center of Cape Cod is hosting an exhibit of artwork of the visually impaired and legally blind.  The artwork was gathered from participants of art classes hel
• Volunteer to Audio Describe Our Exhibits
  We need a special volunteer to help make accommodations for people who are blind or who have low vision by audio describing our exhibits. 3 - 6 hours of online training ar
• Volunteer to Help Install the Next Open Door Gallery Exhibit
  Do you have experience installing art exhibits in galleries?  We are looking for a volunteer to help us install Liz Doles' exhibit – Sri Lanka: Pinhole Photography and Por
• Nominate an Arts Advocate!
  The Arts|Learning's Champions of Arts Education Awards honor individuals and organizations that have made exceptional contributions to arts education advocacy and continue
• Purchase A Signed Copy Of Eleanor Rubin's Book "Dreams of Repair"
  Eleanor Rubin , currently exhibiting at VSA's Open Door Gallery , has graciously donated signed copies of her book "Dreams of Repair". Interesting in purchasing your very
• Connect Historic Boston Launches Public Art Ideas Competition
  Connect Historic Boston is an initiative between the National Park Service (NPS) and the City of Boston's Transportation Department to make walking, biking, and taking the
• ASL-Interpreted Visiting Artist Workshop: Recycled Art
  Boston Children's Museum is offering an ASL-Interpreted Visiting Artist Workshop: Recycled Art with artist Sabrina Dennison Sunday, March 10 2013, from 11am to 1pm. Have f
• Meet the Intern: Julia Beck
  Julia Beck, M.Ed Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education '13 What are your favorite pastimes?       "Participating in theatre in any way, going to markets (especia
• Free Webinar: Research on the Arts and Aging
  National Endowment for the Arts' Inter-agency Task Force will host a public webinar about Research on the Arts and Aging, February 20, 2013, 2:00 – 3:00 pm. As the U.S. po
• Meet the Intern: Alyson Finbow
  Hello, Kind Souls!  My name is Alyson.  I grew up in New Jersey, and have been there until coming to Massachusetts for college.  I am currently a student at Lesley Univers
• VSA Events Inspired By Eleanor Rubin's Open Door Gallery Exhibit
  Currently at the Open Door Gallery is Eleanor Rubin's exhibit Progress of the Eclipse: Memory, Memory Loss and Imagination.  The artwork grew out of the artist's pain of b
• Supporting Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Arts: A Guide for Teaching Artists
  The Kennedy Center is sponsoring a free webinar Tuesday, January 29 2013 at 3pm given by Sharon M. Malley, Ed D, Special Education Specialist, Office of VSA & Accessibilit
• Eleanor Rubin - Memory, Memory Loss and Imagination January 14 - April 12, 2013
  The Open Door Gallery presents an exhibit and inquiry about Alzheimer's disease and its impact on elders and their families. Artist's Statement The body of work on view as
• Kennedy Center Announces Winter 2013 Artist Opportunities
  The Artist Services Team of the Kennedy Center's Department of VSA and Accessibility put together this list of notable opportunities in the visual and performing arts, for
• Arts as Antidote for Academic Ills - New York Times
  New York Times, 12/18/2012 Written by Patricia Cohen Photo by Kirsten Luce Stationed in front of one of his large self-portraits, the artist Chuck Close raised his customi
• Setting Up Success for Visual Artists - Webinar Archive Available
  If you missed the December 11, 2012 free VSA webinar "Setting Up Success for Visual Artists", an archive is available until January 5, 2013.  To access the recording: 1. V
• "I Am Light": An Evening of Disability Rights Poetry, Art, Expression, and Conversation
  The Institute for Human Centered Design will host an informal evening with Eli Wolff , Sara Hendren, and others sharing disability rights poetry, art and expression, and t
• Meet Me at the Coolidge . . . and Make Memories
  ARTZ - Artists for Alzheimer's and Coolidge Corner Theatre present an interactive film program for people with memory loss and their care partners. Meet Me at the Coolidge
• The Boston Globe Asks: "Is Art Therapy the Answer for Dementia?"
  Boston Globe, 11/27/2012 Written by Karen Weintraub/Globe Correspondent Photo by Essdras M Suarez/Globe Staff DEDHAM — Carla shook a tambourine, while Dorothy played the x
• Arts Activities, Holiday Shopping, Refreshments at Handmade Holiday Opening Reception
  Join us for an evening of arts activities, holiday shopping, and refreshments at the Handmade Holiday Opening Reception, Thursday December 6 2012 4-7pm, Open Door Gallery
• MRC Artists Beyond Challenges Holiday Reception and Exhibit
  Looking for holiday gift ideas?  Help welcome the Artists Beyond Challenges exhibit to the West Suburban YMCA.  Come meet the artists and learn about this Massachusetts Re
• Handmade Holiday Market at Open Door Gallery
  Come and do your holiday shopping at the state's alternative craft and art market.  Handmade Holiday features weaving, printmaking, jewelry, felting, cards, painting, and
• Third Annual Arts in Health Care Conference
  Lesley University is teaming with the Boston Arts Consortium for Health, the International Association for Music and Medicine, the Longwood Symphony Orchestra, Harvard Med
• Website Resources: Arts Education and Disabilities
  The Kennedy Center put together an annotated bibliography of websites related to arts and special education.  Anyone is free to view, download, or print the Microsoft Word
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Access to Art
  Previously we blogged about the Museum of Fine Art's ASL tours held on the 2nd Wednesday of each month.  The MFA has other noteworthy tours that you might be interested in
• MCB Commissioner Janet LaBreck's Recorded Tour of Open Door Gallery
  Commissioner Janet LaBreck along with Jay Rufo of the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind (MCB) recently recorded their tour of The Open Door Gallery's Gordon Sasaki NY
• Charles Washburn Interviewed 7/15/2011 by MCB's Horizons Radio
  Charles Washburn was interviewed July 15, 2011 for the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind's (MCB) Horizons radio program produced for the Talking Information Center's
• MCB Interview with Simon Hayhoe Including Clips from VSA's 10/5/11 Forum "How the Blind View Art"
  The Massachusetts Commission for the Blind's (MCB) Horizons radio program interviewed Fulbright Fellow Simon Hayhoe who participated in VSA's panel discussion "How the Bli
• Free Webinars Scheduled
  Free webinars have been scheduled by the Office of VSA & Accessibility, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.  All are welcome. The State of Arts and Aging Tuesday, Nove
• Creative Valor: Recent Work by American Veterans
  VSA MA Open Door Gallery is proud to present "Creative Valor: Recent Work by American Veterans".  The exhibit is a representative group of artworks gleaned from the Nation
• Free ASL Tours of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts
  The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston offers a free American Sign Language tour with no spoken English for adult visitors who are fluent in American Sign Language the second Wed
• New Hampshire Arts Education Partnership Conference
  Opening Minds to the Arts: Investing in Arts Education for a New Generation. October 19 and 20, 2012. The conference, presented by the NH State Council on the Arts and par
• tSOfi Inbar Photography Exhibit
  An exhibit of tSOfi Inbar's photography, Discovering the Extraordinary in the Ordinary, will take place October 2 - 30, 2012 in Newton Free Library's Main Hall, 330 Homer
• Liz Doles Featured in Huffington Post Article
  Liz Doles , who exhibited at the Open Door Gallery early 2011, is featured in a Huffington Post article written by Jim Luce .  The article discusses Liz's life and her pin
• Jon Sarkin Paints Live Accompanied by Guitarist David Patterson
  Jon Sarkin , who exhibited at the Open Door Gallery earlier this year, will create a painting on the spot accompanied by classical guitarist David Patterson Sunday, Septem
• The ARTZ & Dementia Conference
  A conference co-sponsored by Hearthstone Alzheimer Care and Hebrew SeniorLife The ARTZ and Dementia Conference: Innovation, Inclusion & Creative Expression The opportunity
• Exhibit at Webster House Gallery
  "Top Shelf", works on paper and canvas, will be exhibited at Webster House Gallery, 20 Webster Place, Brookline Village September 20 through November 15, 2012.  Opening re
• Celebrate the Publication of Dr. Lisa Wong's Book
  Pucker Gallery invites you to join them in celebrating the publication of Dr. Lisa Wong's book " Scales to Scalpels: Doctors Who Practice the Healing Arts of Music & Medic
• Cantor Art Gallery at Holy Cross Showcases "Create"
  The Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester will exhibit 135 works of art produced over the last 20 years at the leading centers for artists with
• We’re Celebrating Charles J. Washburn’s 25th Year with VSA MA!
  Thank you Charlie for your commitment, energy, enthusiasm and innovation!  We can’t wait to see what you’ll do next! We gathered quotes, anecdotes, and notes of thanks fro
• "Start with the Arts" PDFs Now Available!
  "Start with the Arts" and "Start with the Arts at Home" are instructional programs created by VSA for pre-school and early elementary school learners that uses the arts to
• VSA's Director of Cultural Inclusion Bonnie Kaplan
  Emerson College put together a website called Survive and Thrive Boston which includes a section about going Beyond Barriers along with this video of Bonnie Kaplan by Krit
• State of Education: The Arts Advantage
  Nicole Agois, VSA Mass Education Program Manager, was quoted in NECN's March 24, 2010 article and video State of Education: The Arts Advantage .
• COOL Schools Workshops Announced
  The Education Department of VSA Massachusetts has scheduled a series of four professional development workshops taking place October 10 - 25, 2012.  They include: The Play
• CATA's - "I Am A Part of Art" Annual Art Show
  I Am a Part of Art, Community Access to the Arts' annual art show opening reception and poetry reading takes place in the CATA Studio Gallery Sunday, July 29th from 2 to 4
• Keep Schools COOL As The Summer Heats Up!
  Dear Blog Reader, As the summer starts to heat up I am happy to reflect on the successful introduction of our COOL Schools program!  The name comes from our belief that in
• Talk and Potluck with Eliot School
  Visiting teacher Doug Stowe will discuss "Wisdom of the Hands: Why We Still Need a Wood Shop" Friday, July 6, 7pm at the Eliot School, 24 Eliot St, Jamaica Plain.  Admissi
• Call for Artists
  The Arts & Business Council's Art Lending Program seeks to forge greater connections between the business and arts communities by bringing original artwork by local artist
• CVS Caremark and VSA Announce 2012 All Kids Can CREATE Exhibition
  (WASHINGTON, D.C.) –– VSA, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and CVS Caremark All Kids Can have announced the 102 students of all abilities that will be
• Marian Brown: Fabrics of Meaning June 18, 2012 - August 31, 2012
  The Open Door Gallery presents Marian Brown: Fabrics of Meaning June 18, 2012 - August 31, 2012 Opening reception takes place Tuesday June 19, 2012 4 - 7 pm.  At 6 pm, Edw
• Open Door Gallery In the News
  The Boston Globe published this photo of VSA MA board member Sidewalk Sam with artist Marguerite McDonald and poet Marylou DiPietro who collaborated to create "Snow on the
• American Sign Language Multimedia Museum Guide
  The MFA, Boston, has added ASL to its languages on the Multimedia highlights tour.  This tour, on an iPod touch platform, looks at over 125 pieces of artwork from all part
• Happy Teaching Artist Appreciation Week!
  Thanks to all of our teaching artists for bringing a Creative Outlook On Learning to schools across Massachusetts! MUSIC Deborah Stuart  shared her immense expertise on wo
• Congratulations to Abebe Ticktin from the Henderson Inclusion Elementary School for being named VSA Massachusetts Student of the Month!
  The VSA MA Student of the Month award celebrates the accomplishments of students who have exhibited significant artistic, social or academic growth throughout their partic
• VSA now accepting entries for its 2012 visual art programs
  Sustaining / Creating A National Juried Exhibition for Emerging Artists with Disabilities, ages 16-25 Deadline: July 8, 2012 Sustaining / Creating asks emerging artists to

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