453-The Facilitation Experience Workshop with Matheny Arts Access
In Person | This class has been canceled
Imagine yourself an artist. Now, imagine that you no longer have the ability to use your arms and legs and that you have limited use of speech. How would you go about your daily life and how would you be able to express yourself as an artist? These questions represent the unfortunate reality of the artists participating in the Matheny Arts Access Program. In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn what the term “facilitated arts program” means, how it works, and what it’s like to create art using one. During this workshop, participants will experience firsthand the difficulties and challenges of creating art in a facilitated art program by role playing as both an artist with a disability and that of a facilitating artist.
Heather Williams
Heather Williams: Performing Arts Coordinator
Heather received her BFA in Dance Pedagogy and Performance from The Hartt School of Music. Her performing credits include Jacobs Pillow, Full Force Dance Theater, Mojalet Dance Collective, Ellen Stokes Shadle Dance works, The Connecticut Opera and Hartford Ballet. Heather also serves on the board of the Dance Innovations Performance Foundation in Chatham, NJ and is the NJ Dance Competition Chair for the National Society of Arts & Letters. In addition, she is a National Society Arts and Letters Modern Dance recipient (Washington, DC).