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Vanessa Monroe is a visual artist who draws inspiration from the world around her.
Monroe has a mild intellectual disability, the result of a rare genetic disorder. But that hasnt stopped her from creating intricate, one-of-a-kind-pieces that are in high demand at home as well as overseas. In addition to her birdhouse, shes also finishing off a colorful watercolor depicting a bride and groom that she created for an international client.
I finished my commission about two married couples, she announced triumphantly. It makes me proud and it makes me feel good inside.
Mara Clawson, 22, likes to
create images with nature-based themes.
I started drawing watercolors since I was two or three, she said. I just love art.
Clawson also suffers from a hereditary disease that has resulted in a mild learning disability, but she doesnt think about that when shes in the studio with other artists.
Its nice and peaceful and we can get along with each other, she said.
Art Enables
The two women are regular participants in a program at Art Enables, a non-profit gallery and studio in Washington.
?Now in its 12th year, the gallery offers an open, quiet space to about 30 local artists with a variety of intellectual or developmental disabilities that include but are not limited to Down Syndrome, Autism, Traumatic Brain Injury and Bipolar Disorder.
The artists come from all backgrounds and ethnicities and range in age from 21 to 78 years old.
Mary Liniger, Executive Director of Art Enables, said the purpose of the program is twofold; to represent and support our artists and then also to show the different ways that people who are marginalized can communicate through the visual arts.
Professional artists
The gallery provides the artists with professional materials, their own web page, and marketing support to help them succeed as professional artists. Our artists have at least 10 shows a year here as well as other shows throughout the city, she said, and whenever our artists sell a piece, whether its here in the gallery, off of our website or at one of their outside shows, they receive a 60 percent commission from those sales.
The artists work ranges from original, framed pieces to mugs, calendars and notecards depicting their work. They also receive numerous orders from around the world.
We have had buyers as far away as Germany, Japan, Australia, said Liniger. Last year we sold over $84,000 worth of artwork and our average piece is around $100.
Having people recognize the talents and the skills of these artists is really important, she added; its a source of identity and of pride.
Art Coordinator Beth Baldwin is there for support, and to encourage the artists with projects that she thinks are going to be marketable.
For me as an artist too, just the whole aspect of documenting your work and publicizing your work and getting your work framed and out there into the public is a huge drain on your [re]sources, she said. And for our artists to just be able to come in and create and thats the only thing they have to worry about and concern themselves with, is fantastic.
Vanessa Monroe appreciates the support.
I feel real good, she said, cause Im drawing my art and Im selling it.
And that, said Beth Baldwin, is what Art Enables is all about.
Shifting sands of democracy?
用英语聊聊创业
Larger scheme of things?
An endless balancing act
少喝点酒吧,同桌的你
In the cards?
More Pinocchios?
Bad taste?
Social safety net?
Ebbs and flows
常坐飞机的人需要学的口语
现在流行结婚
Behind the eight ball again?
一起看场电影吧!
Fair game
雾霾和吸烟,该担心哪个?
Worth the candle?
Character assassination?
Food chain?
Road map to get back to profitability?
Overcoming idioms as stumbling block
Time to call time on cheap, strong alcohol
Train of thought
A dose of his own medicine
Reading the riot act?
Lion’s den?
Give him the glad hand?
用英语聊聊“快闪”
饺子和豆腐的地道说法
Follow the money?
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