The title of this exhibit is "Special People with Special Talents"

 

Participating artists are as follows:
 

Tom Lamb

Albert Alcalay

Ken Walters

Felice Tagliaferri

Michelle Vara

Desmond Blair

Bernadette Resha

Tommy Hollenstein

Betty G. Miller

Stephen Wiltshire
 

This exhibit was created with the sole purpose of showing that people are capable of overcoming life's challenges. When a person suffers from a physical, mental or emotional set back they should know that their life does not end there at that very moment. The artists I chose were examples of survivors who were able to overcome unfortunate events and continue living their lives specifically through their artistic abilities. I tried my best to find artists with different disabilities as well as different specialties, this way there is a broader spectrum to go by in case a viewer does not think they could paint, well maybe they can create art with other tools and techniques as these artists have. The artists in this exhibition were determined to create art and figured which techniques they felt comfortable with whether it be using their chairs, placing their paint brushes between their lips, holding the tool with their feet or creating based on the sensation of touch. Each and every one of them blew my mind, I thought that their talents and abilities were too cool  not to share.