Learn about the 'Special Award,' a collaborative initiative promoting art by individuals with disabilities. The Bijbels Museum, through its director Carolien Croon, contributed to curating selections for these monthly online exhibitions. This project by Special Arts highlights heartfelt and conceptual works, emphasizing personal passions and emotional depth found in diverse artistic expressions.
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The Bijbels Museum participated in curating selections for the 'Special Award,' an initiative by Special Arts that promotes art by individuals with disabilities. Monthly online exhibitions are formed from submissions, with the museum's director and a partner curator contributing to a recent selection.
The Bijbels Museum collaborated with Special Arts, a foundation dedicated to fostering art and culture participation for artists with disabilities, by curating selections for the 'Special Award.' This initiative features monthly online exhibitions of art submissions from artists aged 18 and over who have a disability. Carolien Croon, director of the Bijbels Museum, alongside Wouter Prins from Museum Krona, curated a specific selection. Their statement highlights the heartfelt and conceptual nature of the artists' work, focusing on personal passions, emotions, and simple yet refined forms that speak to the soul of life. A broader selection from the 'Special Award 2023-2024' is also being shown at Cobra Museum (July 19 - September 8, 2024), and another selection will feature in the Bijbels Museum's own exhibition 'Uit het paradijs' from October 13, 2024, in Museum Krona.
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