2014-593-E Arts - Barbara Tyroler for 2014 Arts Grant Agreement $1,000

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DocuSign Envelope ID:4CB7473F-4B13-4A9C-A9FF-64745B8579B8 2 Community Impact and Artistic Growth The exhibition and public forums will coincide with Autism Awareness 2015, addressing public art and advocacy as well as collaborations between the ASD community and NT(neuro typical) artists. We will provide a public reception and gallery tour that includes a high functioning young adult on the Autism spectrum with a local neuro typical musician. As a professional artist, I will address collaboration, experimentation, and innovative display of mixed media. These co-programming partnerships with members of the Autism and developmental disabilities community are designed to promote understanding and inclusion. I hope to do my part to direct additional resources towards future opportunities,using photography and the creative arts. I hope through my contributions,I may play a role in building community connections as an artist practitioner, educator, and a public arts advocate. Background and Artist Experience As a practicing artist and cultural worker,my goals are to create a highly skilled and collaborative community comprised of mature and thoughtful professionals who will share their work and ideas together through public exhibitions, lectures, seminars, and retreats. As a professional artist, it is imperative that I engage with others in my field, maintaining a support group for clarity of vision and skill development. As I continue to grow and evolve as a mature artist,I have begun to integrate my original career as an educational therapist where I worked with children and families with developmental disabilities. As a public arts advocate I have begun to find fulfillment in working with a wider and more inclusive spectrum of participants, including emerging and atypical artists,while continuing my work with seasoned pros. While a college level teacher at the University of Maryland,I taught black and white darkroom, critical theory, and photographic printmaking. During the digital revolution we integrated instruction through the art, education, and the computer science departments. I have been an exhibiting artist starting with traditional silver photography and now emerging into professional collaborations with video artist,printmakers,fiber artists, graphic pencil artists, paper collage artists,jewelers,woodcrafters, and poets. Several years ago I produced an exhibition with a group of professional artists to construct collaborative multilayered portraits that combined my photographic imagery and their paintings. I have exhibited and provided educational forums consistently over the years with a series of talks for the Orange County arts community about technique and process. Concurrent with the collaborative portrait I am creating with Susan,I will also be working on a personal exhibition with 4 mature professional women artists in Orange County who use fabric,handmade paper, sculpture, and painting. We are meeting weekly, attending exhibitions,researching materials, and discussing our collaborative efforts as a team of mature artists,working in different mediums,producing a cohesive body of work between 5 artists. With advanced degrees in both Special Education and Imaging and Digital Arts,I deeply value this type of community work. Partnerships with the,the North Carolina Council on Developmental Disabilities, and the Adapted Recreation&Inclusion Program of the Town of Chapel Hill have enabled my work to be installed in permanent public facilities and displayed at various galleries and educational venues.