Welcome to the 2024 artAbility Showcase!
Happy 10-year anniversary, artAbility! While it was another amazing year of creating art in the local community, it was also a year to reflect on everything that has brought us to this place. This year, Alena Ramkissoon took over as Project Coordinator. She led the planning and execution of eight workshops! Nearly all of them drew on unique art concepts, providing participants with the opportunity to explore new ways of expressing themselves through art.
We’ve done this nine times before, but we’re still as excited as ever to celebrate this year’s artists through our annual Showcase. We’ll again be offering an in-person event as well as a Digital Showcase, which allows friends and family far and wide the opportunity to take part in the revelry.
View this year's artists and their work
A - E
Wanda Anderson
Michael Cisneros
Sarah Cooly
Kenyon Cornelius
Caroline Doty
Tawny Espy
View artists A to E
F-K
Johanna Flores
Cory Fong
Mike Gates
Deirdre Gordon
Barbara Gragert
Sam Gragert
Matthew Haggard
Mary Hanley
Heidi Holderman
Hannah Jehn
Hope Klocke
View artists F to J
L-Z
Peter Mahuron
Jessilyn Matthias
Kristin Miller
James Peterson
Xavier Resnowski
Toby Schultz
Gabe Vollmer
View artists L to Z
A special thank you
We would like to give a special thank you to Stepping Stones, Inc. and Inland Northwest Broadcasting for providing funding for the artAbility project this year. Your generosity has afforded another year of artistic exploration and expression in the Moscow community.
We would also like to thank all the staff and trainees at the Idaho Center on Disabilities and Human Development who provided their expertise and support for the project. artAbility would not be possible without you!
2022-23 workshops
This year, Areli planned and carried out six new and unique workshops over the course of the academic year. Sessions mainly focused on sustainable art by integrating mediums that used found and recycled objects. This included spin off art, collage, assemblage and music:
Alcohol Ink Art with Areli Morfin
This workshop focused on the unique ways to use alcohol ink on canvas. Participants dotted ink drops across their canvas and used different techniques to spread the ink. This included blowing the drops to spread them and tossing them through the air! The end result was an array of unique and colorful patterns.
Assemblage Workshop with Areli Morfin
Assemblage is the art of assembling different everyday items into a single piece of art. The approach dates all the way back to the early 1900s with Pablo Picasso’s three-dimensional cubist constructions. Participants gathered found and recycled objects and constructed assemblages in a wooden frame.
Paper Collage with Lori Higgins and Elizabeth Sloan
These two workshops were led by local artists Lori Higgins and Elizabeth Sloan. Participants reused recycled materials, such as books, paper and magazines, to create diverse collages.
Music workshops with Dr Lori Conlon Khan and students from the Lionel Hampton School of Music
The final two workshops of the academic year were music-themed. Led by students from University of Idaho’s Lionel Hampton School of Music, participants learned about percussion and call and response. They also composed a piece to be performed for the in-person artAbility Showcase.