Who is Judith Snow?
Judith Snow is an internationally recognized author, lecturer and a world leader on inclusiveness issues for persons with disabilities. She holds two degrees from York University: a BA in Mathematics and Psychology (1972) and a Master's Degree in Clinical Counselling & Psychology (1976). She is presently a doctoral student at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), at the University of Toronto.
Judith Snow (now 61 years of age) has lived a life-time of quadriplegia. Early in life, she was labelled ‘disabled’.Among other experiences, she lived in a chronic care environment for four years. Today, she is a social inventor and an advocatefor inclusion who welcomes the participation of a wide diversity of people.
The idea of this show came from a musical by the same title co-created by Michael Rubenfeld and Sarah Garton Stanley.The exhibit, like the theatrical production, will be a retrospective of Judith’s life and artistic legacy.
At 55, she discovered she was an artist, and found painting and writing as ameans of responding to her own realities.Indeed, for Judith, art is a way toconnect withher emotions andencompasses her own rangeof "human activitiesand abilities”.However, she does not want to be labelled or have her workcategorized.
CAVE has established itself in the GTA as an organization that strives to transform communities through various initiatives, primarily Mural Transformation Projects.
