From the “Breaking Ground"
A N N U A L A R T S I S S U E
NUMBER 32 | SEPTEMBER 2006
THE NEWS L E T T ER OF
THE T ENNE SS E E COUNCI L
ON
DEVE LOPMENTAL DI SAB I L I T I E S
..."The workshops and exhibit,
which can be viewed online at
kc. vanderbilt. edu/ kennedy/ art/ art0406/, were facilitated by
Full Circle Art, and its leaders Massood Taj and Yvette Renee.
The Franklin-based Full Circle Art group is made up of visual, music
and spoken/written word artists with a common goal to bring
humanity closer. The artists do this by communicating through
forms of expression that transcend cultural, geographic and
language barriers. More information about Full Circle Art can be
found at the Web site fullcircleart. org.
In the workshops, the participants first invited and engaged the
artistic muse through drumming and movement. They then carried
out the Full Circle Art mission “to communicate a shared vision of
peace, love, and hope” with paint brushes and canvases, ceramics,
and stained glass.
The result is a colorful and energetic display of shared common
ground between the Full Circle artists and youth and adults with
developmental disabilities.
Participating artists included Sean Druffel, Jeanne Gavigan, Grace
Goad, Cate McMillan, Elise McMillan, Will McMillan, Edward Nesbitt,
Jonathan Phillippi, Rachel Putnam, Ned Solomon, Mary Jane Swaney
and a number of artists from Full Circle Art. Additionally, one of the
workshops included students from Vanderbilt University’s Best
Buddies Chapter along with their buddies from the Nashville
community.
“ For the Common Ground workshops, we intended at best to make
a connection and perhaps facilitate interaction through
collaborative work between
Vanderbilt Kennedy Center
artists and Full Circle Art
a r t i s t s ,” said Mr. Taj. “ Th e
common ground that exists
among all humans, re g a rd l e s s
of what keeps us separated
on the outside, is the
unquestionable internal
dialogue that art and music
can produce in all of us.
“ This fact is perhaps
especially significant in those of us that, for any number of
reasons, have limited social contact or interaction with the rest of
the world, and, as working artists, we relate. Not only did we
connect in the workshops by way of rhythms, the visual work that
came out of the workshops was beyond any of our expectations.”
The workshops were made possible by an Arts Build Communities
Grant from the Metro Nashville Arts Commission and the Vanderbilt
Kennedy Center."...
Link to: ESTABLISHING A COMMON GROUND
BY COURTNEY EVANS AND ELISE MCMILLAN
Article starts at Page 5 of the pdf.
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