VSA Orange County

We are assembling art kits for the "Fall in Love with Art" Fundraiser on November 14th! Have you registered yet? Join us and paint a festive fall pumpkin. Link to register: https://ocde.k12oms.org/1241-194293

Free! Arts teachers come join us for lesson sharing and networking. Register once and attend as many as you would like. Come hear some success stories from your friends and colleagues and be encouraged! You make a difference!

Thank you, Festival of Arts/Pageant of the Masters, for the lovely social media post about our "Arts on the Move" traveling show and the many years of featuring VSA Student Artwork as part of your Junior Art Exhibit.

"Fall in love with Art" and participate in VSA Orange County's painting workshop and fall fundraiser! Adults and children (6 and up) are invited to create a due...t parent-child pumpkin painting, or just paint on your own! 100% of the proceeds will go to benefit VSA OC programming. Must be local to pick up paint kits at OCDE. Register, here: https://ocde.k12oms.org/1241-194293 See more

Happy Friday! We are excited to share student artwork created by students ages 18-22 from Santa Ana Unified School District / SAUSD Arts Special Education Adult Transition program for Laguna Playhouse's youth show "She Kills Monsters" available online this weekend. Check out the gallery and tickets to this virtual show. Note: mature content geared towards teens and young adults: https://lagunaplayhouse.com/education-o/she-kills-monsters/ Special thanks to teachers Annie Young, Daniel Steagall and Ali Brown who guided students in this project.

Arts on the Move has traveled to Fullerton and is featured in the Fullerton Public Library newsletter! Thank you, FPL for participating in Disability Awareness Month and sharing artwork by artists with disabilities with the Fullerton Community! https://conta.cc/3ltTSy7

"Arts on the Move's" next stop is the City of Mission Viejo's Potocki Center for the Arts! Thank you for hosting our traveling show and shining a light on artists with disabilities. We encourage you to check out additional arts and culture opportunities provided by the City of Mission Viejo: https://cityofmissionviejo.org//check-out-arts-move-talent

As we observe World Mental Health Day, we recognize the importance of the arts to provide a pathway to well-being through self expression. VSA Orange County believes that everyone should have the access, opportunity and freedom to express themselves through the arts. We applaud our friends at Well Beings Studio for supporting emotional well being and open communication through the arts in the free arts experiences they offer for children and families. Visit their website at http://wellbeings.studio/ to find out more about how the arts can support your overall well-being, especially during these challenging times.

There's still time to sign up for the family art workshop today at 4:30 p.m. PT through Well Beings Studio! https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSdaQa5PBsWZR59Hf/viewform

We are thrilled to announce the launch of our traveling show, "Arts on the Move"! This visual arts show, which features select pieces form the 2020 VSA Festival, will be showcased, virtually, throughout the month of October by community partners who are helping us to shine a light on artists with disabilities for Disability Awareness Month. Our first stop is Bower's Museum. Visit our traveling show in the Bowers at Home section under "kids": https://www.bowers.org/index.php/...visit/at-home#kids Bowers Museum strives to make their facility as accessible as possible via facility features such as ramps and accessible seating in their auditorium. The museum also offers audio tours, virtual tours, and virtual guides to exhibitions to increase accessibility for those with vision, hearing or mobility-related disabilities. For more information about Bowers Museum and their current exhibitions visit www.bowers.org

Today we celebrate World Sight Day, an annual global event to bring awareness to blindness and vision impairment. VSA Orange County celebrates blind and visually impaired artists and the amazing contributions they make to the world. We'd also like to recognize Josephine Hernandez, a visually impaired artist, who created the new logo for VSA Orange County's traveling arts show, "Arts on the Move." The logo incorporates a wispy colorful sketch of a person in a wheel chair holdi...ng a paint brush above their head with colorful brush strokes of red, yellow and green around them. This graphic represents the "O" of the word "move," which is displayed in a brush stroke font in blue. Thank you, Joey for creating such a wonderful visual representation of what Arts on the Move is all about! About the Artist: Born and raised in Southern California, Josephine "Joey" Hernandez is passionate about art, inclusivity, and disability pride. Her work has been featured in several local and international shows. Joey began losing her vision to a juvenile form of macular degeneration during her sophomore year of high school. Over the course of a couple of months, Joey went from average sight to partial blindness. Her vision is blurry and she constantly sees moving neon lights. Joey primarily creates pencil drawings and acrylic paintings on large canvases and sketchpads, but she has also dabbled in digital art. Joey is a senior at California State University, Fullerton double-majoring in Communications and American Studies. When she isn't painting, studying, or working Joey enjoys skateboarding with the help of her long white cane. #WorldSightDay #artsanddisability #blindness #visuallyimpaired #disabilityawareness

Did you know that October is Disability History and Awareness month? To kick off a month of Awarwness Posts, we begin with celebrating World Cerebral Palsy Day (October 6th) We celebrate our friends and artists living with CP.... There are 17 million people around the world living with *Cerebral Palsy (CP). Another 350 million people are closely connected to a child or adult with CP. It is the most common physical disability in childhood. CP is a permanent disability that affects movement. Its impact can range from a weakness in one hand to almost a complete lack of voluntary movement. It is a complex disability. To learn more about CP, visit the Cerebral Palsy Foundation: https://www.yourcpf.org/#