SNOW UPDATE: CATA Studio Programs cancelled Monday 2/23
SNOW UPDATE: CATA Studio Programs cancelled Monday 2/23
Programs
– Carol Neuhaus, CATA artist
CATA’s adaptive painting workshops incorporate innovative tools and techniques that make painting and visual arts accessible for artists with a wide range of disabilities.
In these workshops, CATA artists use techniques inspired by Artistic Realization Technologies (A.R.T.), originally developed by artist Tim Lefens. Working one-on-one with CATA faculty, artists use color wheels and a specialized series of yes/no questions to guide their creative decisions. Artists who are not able to manipulate a paintbrush instead use a laser pointer to direct the movement of the brush on the canvas.
Artistic Realization Technologies (A.R.T.) is an adaptive painting technique developed by Tim Lefens that provides people with significant physical disabilities the opportunity to paint with the assistance of laser pointers and trained trackers acting as the hands of the artist.
“When you have no means of expressing yourself, the whole world going on around you, without you, and all of a sudden you can place the exact amount of the exact color you want, where you want it on the canvas, a lifetime of pent up energy comes out through a very concentrated channel. For the individuals we work with, painting is not recreation. It’s life.”
– Tim Lefens
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