Exhibits
SRC-Artists With Disabilities Task Force and Gateway Arts
Nov 4, 2008 Main Library, Emery and Foundation Cases
The SRC-Artists With Disabilities Task Force is thrilled to have their artwork exhibited on the first floor of the Main Library in the Foundation and Emery Cases from November 4 to January 7. The Artists with Disabilities Task Force is a group of people from diverse disciplines working towards creating linkages between artists with disabilities and the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission. These linkages advance the goals of independence, self-support and professional development in the art world. Chairperson Lisa Corfman states: "As a group we don't focus on what holds us back, but use our disabilities as a tie that unites us and makes us stronger individuals enabling us to do amazing things". Exhibiting artists are: Lisa Corfman, Diana Jenks, Cynthia Powell, Gregory S. Rogers, Leo V. Stronach and Cathy Thatcher. For more information please contact Lisa Weber at (617) 204-3638 or send email to lisa.weber@mrc.state.ma.us. Please visit their website.
The Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission, in part, also funds Brookline's Gateway Arts at 62 Harvard St. Gateway Arts is a magical place filled with colorful crafts, contemplative and whimsical paintings and over 95 talented artists with disabilities learning a vocation while realizing their dreams. This unique, non-profit service includes the Studio Program, The Gateway Crafts Store, and The Gateway Gallery.
Gateway Arts is a service of Vinfen Corporation, a nonprofit human services organization that provides a comprehensive array of services to individuals with psychiatric, developmental and behavioral disabilities. Vinfen serves more than 7,000 individuals in eastern Massachusetts and northern Connecticut.
Participating Gateway artists are: D.C. Foss, Miriam Moralez, Laurence Murphy, Cynthia Segal, Gabrielle Sichel, and Jane Tarlow and Cameron Wilder.