Making Our Mark: Launching our Art and Citizenship collaboration

Yesterday Project Citizenship was excited to launch a new collaboration thanks to an Edmonton Arts Council grant.  Together with our community allies at the SNAP Print Shop we began an art and  citizenship exploration called Making our Mark.   Over the next four weeks, citizens with disabilities, SNAP artists, U of A anthropology students and citizen explorers from SKILLS Society will share stories and make art related to disability and citizenship. For this collaboration there are three citizen art teams each exploring a theme related to citizenship.  One group is looking at how play fosters belonging and models engaged citizenship. Another team is looking at pride and citizenship and the third group is exploring what freedom and citizenship can mean. It was a great first day getting to know each other as we made art and began to explore.  We don’t know exactly where our exploration will take us, but we know we will all learn something, grow and will make art that causes people to think hard about the diverse perspective people with disabilities bring.  Stay tuned!

Also check out an article about our collaboration with SNAP in the latest edition of their newsletter.