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RAINBOW THURSDAYS ARTISTS
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Artworks and Artists from Victory Hall Inc.'s
Rainbow Thursdays Artists program at Windmill Center, Bayonne, NJ. |
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Rainbow Thursdays Artists is a community-based art education program connecting disabled adults with professional artists who provide them with materials, training and encouragement to express themselves through art.
Rainbow Thursdays Artists classes are presented free of charge at area facilities. This weekly outreach art program in cooperation with Windmill Alliance and Sunflower Adult Medical Day Care, is now in its twelfth full year of operation and many of our participants are advancing in their creativity and skills and are developing an identity as artists. About thirty-five program participants meet weekly to learn painting and drawing with three to four artist/teachers at Windmill Center for developmentally disabled adults, 5th and Broadway, Bayonne, NJ. Visiting artists from the NJ/NY area also meet with the students and share their artwork and instruction. The program encompasses study of great artworks, the natural world, and images of people through books and photographs, and encourages each participant to understand drawing as their unique visual language with which they can create realistic and abstract form and systems, and express emotion and ideas through line and color. The population at Windmill may have very varying capabilities, but everyone participates enthusiastically and many come up with surprising results. We also work with the Sunflower Adult Medical Day program in Bayonne for special sessions. We organize exhibitions throughout the year for our Rainbow Thursdays Artists to share and show their work both at our Drawing Rooms location and at community spaces throughout the area, such as the Bayonne Public Library. The opportunity to exhibit and even sell their artwork to family, friends and many supporters in the community allows our Rainbow Thursdays Artists to become visible and valued in a new way. |
This program is Funded in part by a CDBG Grant through the City of Bayonne, and by a Hudson County LAP grant.
This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts /Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, administered by the Hudson County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs, Craig Guy, County Executive, and the Board of Chosen Freeholders.
This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts /Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, administered by the Hudson County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs, Craig Guy, County Executive, and the Board of Chosen Freeholders.
