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Judith Snow, now 61, has lived a lifetime of quadriplegia. At 55 she discovered she was an artist. This exhibit will demonstrate her movement toward a deeper understanding of Inclusion through her journey to being an artist.

This exhibit will demonstrate Judith’s growing understanding of her own capacities and of inclusion as a journey, with the focus on 1982 to now, the time period within which she has become an artist.

Inclusion

Inclusion is a state of a community where the diversity of individuals in the group is encouraged and sustained. This exhibit will demonstrate Judith’s journey from being an isolated, rejected individual to being an artist and World Peace activist.

A gift is anything that you are, have or do which creates an opportunity for you to interact with someone else. Under favourable circumstances such interactions can be built into sustainable relationships, and social and economical opportunities. The exhibit will demonstrate Judith’s life work of having physical, intellectual and emotional diversity appreciated as social and economic giftedness rather than disability.

Inclusion cannot happen without relationship and it is a powerful force in building community. The exhibit will demonstrate the communities that influence and/or have come into being through Judith’s work. The key representation will be of the Laser Eagles Art Guild, www.lasereagles.org, and how building and interacting with these artists has influenced Judith’s understanding of inclusion.

In the interests of keeping an elegant ambience to the exhibit the theme of community will be represented in simple ways with video, photos and text, with the exception of Laser Eagles. To convey the full impact of this dynamic creation there MAY also be displays of the techniques used to train and guide art facilitators – trackers – and some of the art and story of one other Laser Eagle artist.

In addition, when the play "The Book of Judith” is produced at the ROM, potentially in September in the Bronfman Hall, this will potentiate all of the themes of journey, inclusion, giftedness and community.

The sub-themes of Journey and Inclusion can be initially established by using the fact that the space is used as a thoroughfare by ROM staff and visitors. Those who are merely going through the room with no intention of staying will encounter a clearly marked path on the floor that says something like: "The Normal Path – Do Not Stop or Look Around”. All along it there will also be enticements to step aside and stay awhile, learn something and enjoy the experience.

CAVE has established itself in the GTA as an organization that strives to transform communities through various initiatives, primarily Mural Transformation Projects.