Partners in Arts Participation
ACHF Arts Access
Enrich participants’ lives by providing in-depth arts experiences through the mediums of music, movement and story-telling. Kairos teaching artists will provide 31 hours of instruction to arts learners. Barriers to participation will be identified and adaptations made so that learners can succeed in creating art. 2: Learners will develop holistically, as art becomes a vehicle for expanded emotional/social wellbeing, physical and artistic/cognitive functioning. Evaluation is through observations by artists and staff identifying emotional/social, physical and artistic/cognitive functioning. Regular meetings will review individual mastery and participation.
Kairos Alive provided 31 hours of arts programming at Epic for 31 individuals who have difficult accessing the arts on their own. Epic noted the days that artists were in residency and tracked which arts learners attended sessions. During class, staff and artists identified and addressed barriers to participation that were easily remedied. At hour-long reflections held six times over the project, staff, artists and an arts-coach reviewed challenges that learners faced and strategized ways to mitigate barriers. A spreadsheet kept track of the quality of each arts learner's participation over the course of the project. 2: Kairos and Epic helped adults with disabilities develop holistically, using art to expand functioning in emotional, physical and artistic realms. Staff, artists, and arts coach met six times over the course of the project for reflections and to brainstorm ways to deepen the arts experiences for learners. The coach and staff documented progress of learners on a spreadsheet. Staff used an IPad to capture learners in action. At a final reflection, this group reviewed the video clips and spreadsheet data, reflecting on what was accomplished over the residency. All this information was analyzed by an evaluator at the end of the project.
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