#EveryoneCommunicates Art Show
All Around Us Is Communication
All Around us is Communication in purple blue circle background has lot of abstract shapes. This art pieces challenges people to step back breathe and look around you. Communication is everywhere.
My Support and Your Support Has Sum Difference “
Pink and blue and purple background with flowers. This piece is about how support looks different for everyone. It’s about accepting and including people where they are and learning about what a person needs to be in the space they are in.
Community is Everywhere
This has a pink background and is a picture of inclusion where #EveryoneCommunicates it has people in community some using ASL, some talking and some using assisted technology to communicate alongside non disabled people.
Inclusive Spaces: Communication is Access
A painting about how communities can be more accessible to everyone by creating spaces that allow for everyone to communicate. This painting has a giant picture exchange communication board in the center of it. It features a woman in a wheelchair who is trying to navigate her community. It has a gray road and green grass and a community built around the giant picture exchange communication board.
Overload
This is a 4×6 piece that has an Autistic woman who has found herself in a space that has too much light and sound and she uses her hands and her body as a form of communication to express how she feels in that moment.
The Calm Of A Musical Moment
This is piece about chronic pain and the invisible battle to connect with the space and place that helps one quiet the mind.
It features a girl who sitting on the floor she is lost in her thoughts, struggling to cope with the pain in her body and the red tape that exists to connect to what helps her take her mind off of everything around her.
A Hand Signal
This is an Art piece that is a black background it has a multi colored hand it out stretched is brown black and peach. This piece is about using your body to communicate.
Untitled
A woman sitting with her knees up against her in the floor green lines in the background.
Finding My Voice
This piece is about the journey to find my voice through technology. Before using AAC people didn’t understand me or what I needed. They would stare at me with my inaudible noises or struggles to speak that there wasn’t anything else. An IPad with picture choices turned my inaudible moments into a way to communicate what I needed. This is picture of a girl sitting on the floor with one hand on and iPad with a word cloud says “I need water” and a word cloud with a picture of sound has noise projected through the whole piece.
Two Choices
This is a piece about honoring a persons right to have only two choices at a time while making decisions and communicating what they want and need. It is important to learn how a person communicates and makes choices. This piece is about honoring the right to have things simple and with two choices at a time. The image description is that It has a hashtag says everyone communicates. It has a giant purple and green number 2 says respect my right to 2 choices there is pinkish orange brick background.
This is a painting is of picture exchange communication cards sharing a way of communicating through pictures.
Supported Decision Making
Everyone communicates a piece on supported Decison making. It has a brown table with supportive people gathered around it cloud with girl says I decide inside a giant gray bubble. The piece about supported decision making and learning how to be self advocate and learning skills to make decisions with support .
The Tool Box
An art piece about how having the right tools and supports to communicate can help a person make decisions and communicate what they need. Image description This piece says, “Please wait I need time” It has a clock at the top and then a tool box with an iPad, AAc talker device and picture exchange communication cards. It says when people provide me time to use tools I have I can communicate.
The Buttons
A piece about using an Augmentative and Alternative Communication Device to communicate in emergencies to alert my caregivers i need a specific medication or object to help me in an emergency. A picture of buttons on a communication device with a hand reaching out .
Poem Art of Communication
Intentional conversation that doesn’t revolve around a clock people together at the table
for the purpose of supporting each other.
A space where people listen to one another.
A place where all sides are heard.
People are engaged, differences put aside, a place of learning and growth.
This intricate space
is where landscapes and abstracts are born.
People come as they are
The raw real ‘you” being supported
in a way that celebrates who you are and what you bring to the table.
Communities engaged, friendships born, people empowered and connected thru creativity and lived experiences.
The art of communication is that hands free moment where one lets go of anything that distracts them from just being in the moment.
The raw real intentional community, learning and loving people as they are and partnering with them for the greater community as friends, extended family and in community is where a canvas of art is born and a community becomes a movement of kindness and compassion.
People know that others will hear them and empower them to live their best lives.
When people feel supported and heard, they thrive and perhaps they take a moment to just dance.
It’s a picture of a girl dancing and excited about music she is using her body to communicate that she is excited!
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