Inside a Massachusetts studio showcasing the work of artists with disabilities
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🗓️ 10 November 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | As major American museums reexamine their collections to ensure diversity and inclusion, |
| 0:05.9 | there's a growing realization that they need more art by people with disabilities. |
| 0:11.2 | Special correspondent Jared Bowen of GBAH in Boston takes us to a Massachusetts organization |
| 0:17.0 | that's been celebrating that work for half a century. |
| 0:23.6 | Around 8.30 every weekday morning, artists begin arriving at Vin-Penn's Gateway Arts |
| 0:26.6 | in Brookline, Massachusetts, |
| 0:28.6 | heading upstairs to studios where they paint, |
| 0:31.6 | weave textiles, or mold ceramics. |
| 0:34.6 | This is their job. |
| 0:36.6 | Every day, I make all kinds of artwork, including this embroidery of my house I used to live in. |
| 0:44.3 | Mimi Clark has worked at Gateway Arts for six years. |
| 0:47.3 | A ready supply of colorful threads at her fingertips, she's honed her skills in both fiber arts and puppetry, where she's |
| 0:55.5 | developed a series called The Bernie and Tulip Monster Show. |
| 0:59.0 | It makes me feel so proud, and I'm inspired as my two favorite puppeteers, Jim Henson and |
| 1:09.0 | Mr. Rogers. |
| 1:10.0 | One of the nation's oldest institutions of its kind, Vin Fenn's Gateway Arts, |
| 1:14.8 | recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. It was founded in the 1970s when state-run |
| 1:20.3 | institutions for people with disabilities were shuttered. Gateway open to fill the vacuum, |
| 1:26.1 | creating a space for people to either grow their artistic talent |
| 1:29.3 | or tap into latent skills they didn't even know they had. |
| 1:33.3 | We have people with Down syndrome, people in the spectrum, we have head injury, people who are blind, |
| 1:41.3 | legally blind, legally deaf. |
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