Access Art Lab
Access Art Lab
This art-making program is designed for neurodiverse students and students with disabilities ages 16 and up, as well as friends and allies. Each session begins with a project idea presented by the instructor that you can interpret in your own creative way. Projects may be inspired by an artist, a specific art skill, or a museum exhibition, but they always support individual expression. Activities are designed to be engaging and enjoyable, without unnecessary frustration. You are also welcome to bring a personal art project in progress to work on while enjoying this creative community.
Participants may register for individual class dates or purchase a season pass for all ten sessions. Registration for drop-in is required 24 hours in advance.
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To sign up for a class using your DDD funds, please contact Celene Ryan at [email protected] or (347) 455-1241.
Rena Rubin
Rena Rubin is a mixed-media artist, musician, art educator, and Reiki practitioner currently living and working in Northern NJ. Her background includes a BA in psychology, and a BFA and MFA in sculpture, as well as numerous workshops and artist residencies. These, plus grants, travel, spiritual inquiry, and voracious curiosity about, well, most everything, have taken her on many journeys, all of which inform her art.
After spending some years as a teaching artist-in-residence in the New York City public schools, and as a full-time certified art teacher in a Brooklyn public middle school - which she loved - Rena relocated to Wild Suburbia and found her true heart teaching art at The Forum School in Waldwick, a wonderful school for neurodivergent students.