Art is a process, a feeling, a place where peace, hope, expression, safety, and purpose live. While kneading thick clay, melting paint into blank canvases, and drawing new shapes on an iPad, over 100 students at Gateway Arts Center in Brookline, Massachusetts call art home. Each of these artists has a disability, but holds a different story within themselves that they use art to convey. The center’s current exhibit titled “TechnoGateway,” based on artwork created or inspired by technology, fills the walls with imaginative creatures and bright color. In Darryl Richard’s Untitled acrylic on canvas piece, a cartoon pear holds a “rock on” sign, a hot dog carries a boom box, and an onion raises a walker above its head in the center, amongst other food part of the crowd. Each piece of food has its own personality and the vibrant color creates energy and movement within the piece. For … [Read more...] about All Artists, All Abilities: “TechnoGateway” at Gateway Arts Center
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Gateway Arts presents Up the Ladder to the Open Door at the Open Door Gallery
By John Paul Stapleton Boston, MA - Gateway Arts has been helping disabled artists break into the mainstream since 1973 and is still going strong with their new “Up the Ladder to the Open Door Gallery” exhibit. Gateway artistic director Stephen DeFronzo and Lorri Berenberg curated this exhibit using work from artists who participated in Gateway’s “Up the Ladder'’ program. Over the past two years, these artists have worked with facilitators to create portfolios and a presence in their local arts community. The exhibit is being shown in the Open Door Gallery, hence the name, which is a space Gateway has worked with before in their mission to give disabled artists a voice; it’s located a few blocks from South Station on South Street. “We’re dedicated to provide arts based services to adults with disabilities” DeFronzo said. Gateway not only gives these adults a studio to work on … [Read more...] about Gateway Arts presents Up the Ladder to the Open Door at the Open Door Gallery