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and how to use it without disrupting the atmosphere to blend ambient with <br /> artificial, to create freeze action and ghostly blurred color. <br /> In order to have the freedom to make strong photographs that convey the <br /> mission and goals of the organizations I serve, I have built trust and confidence with <br /> the families,the instructors, and the children who are already over-stimulated by <br /> sight and sound. I will find pleasure in producing and viewing artwork for the <br /> community that encourages tolerance and understanding of Autism and <br /> communication disorders. <br /> Previous Experience working with Community Outreach <br /> With advanced degrees in Special Education and Imaging and Digital Arts, I <br /> have built a career around using my photography to serve special populations. <br /> In the early years of my career, I founded anImage Photography and Videography in <br /> Washington, DC focusing on commercial and humanitarian work in health and <br /> education. The current art advocacy project,the Beijing Impressions series, is a multi <br /> media,traveling exhibition on display in 2014 in the Greenhill Art Center Gallery, <br /> addressing issues of environmental pollution,wealth imbalance, urbanization,and <br /> an aging population. <br /> With a strong commitment to education, I served on the faculty of the <br /> University of Maryland art department implementing the integration and transition <br /> of film and wet darkroom to digital arts photography curriculum and the Photo <br /> Outreach Experiential Learning program for my students. I served as the director <br /> and founder of the Family Arts Enrichment Center,providing arts and leadership <br /> opportunities for the university community. <br /> My current initiative is my most comprehensive.While photographing <br /> children with disabilities as they confront and overcome their fears of the water, I <br /> am keenly aware of the extraordinary attributes of the Adapted Aquatics program <br /> and immensely impressed with the successes and joy these families and their <br /> children experience through their participation.As an educator, I watch a group of <br /> trained volunteers exhibit patience and respect to teach the children the life skills of <br /> water safety while the children struggle with their particular disabilities, sometimes <br /> accentuated by the distracting environment of the pool itself.As a photographer, I <br /> am able to record these moments,gifting the positive achievements to the families <br /> and being an advocate for this type of intervention. <br /> Included in this application are examples of the hybrid, multi-use approach <br /> that I take as a humanitarian professional artist: Documentary,Abstract,and Gift <br /> and samples of the wall panels from the 2014 Autism Society Awareness month <br /> exhibition. I have included letters from project partner Amy Fowler of the Autism <br /> Society, Lorraine Jorden, parent of student in the Adapted Aquatics class, Marian <br /> Kaslovsky Recreation Specialist, Lauren Burianek lead instructor in the Adapted <br /> Aquatics classes, and Holly Riddle, N.C. Department of Health and Human Services. <br /> More imagery may be found on my Web site at www.barbaratyroler.com <br />