ART UNCUT is an Art Therapy program which is being implemented by Amaka. with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Sports. It includes experiential art workshops mainly taking place in cultural institutions, and is aimed at people with disabilities / psychiatric disorders living in psychosocial rehabilitation units or psychiatric hospitals.
Through art workshops, participants have the chance to interact with the exhibits, to explore and express different aspects of the Self, and from plain visitors-spectators to become creators,
“ART UNCUT” visits various Cultural institutions in Athens and Thessaloniki, It also travels to Mental Health institutions in the Province, in order to facilitate access of vulnerable groups to Art and their active participation in artistic creation as a means of expression and advocacy. .
“ART UNCUT” aims to raise awareness and engage the community on issues related to integration of people with disabilities / psychiatric disorders and their access to Culture and Art, as a universal Human Right.
The program adopts the “Museum as a vehicle for Social Change” approach (Kawashima, 2006), Its goal is to influence society and explore ways that promote positive social change. In this sense, Museum exhibits provide a public open space for dialogue, lift of stereotypes through art education and promotion of self-advocacy for people with psychiatric experience and disability.
The activities of the program include 1) art workshops in Athens, Volos, Thessaloniki, Ioannina, 2) exhibitions in open-air museums, 3) parallel activities such as open art studio, 4) lectures: Conference on: “Conflicts and tensions in the access of people with disabilities in Art and social inclusion: Whose Culture is it Anyway? ”, 5) Online exhibition and digital art competition on Psychiatry and Art.
Target Groups:
- people with psychiatric disorders and intellectual disabilities living in Supported Living Accommodations and Psychosocial Rehabilitation Institutions
Activities:
- Art Therapy workshops in cultural institutions at Athens, Volos, Thessaloniki with people with psychiatric experience. The cycle of each workshop includes 6 meetings.
- Museum kits (moving workshops with copies of artworks and educational / archival material from the collaborating Museums) implemented in psychosocial rehabilitation units for the accessibility of those who can not reach the cultural institutions.
- Exhibitions in museum spaces / outdoor exhibition and parallel activities such as open studio art.
- Public awareness-raising day: “Conflicts and tensions in the access of people with disabilities in Art and social inclusion: Whose Culture is it Anyway?”
- Workshop for mental health professionals / students on topics and methodology for the promotion of access of people with disabilities in Art and Culture
- Online exhibition on Psychiatry and Arts
- Call for artistic creation in units across Greece with a variety of themes from the Acropolis Museum, the Archaeological Museum, the Cycladic Museum, the Goulandris Museum of Modern Art, the EMST, the Gallery, etc. The artworks that will be collected will be presented at the end of the program on a digital platform accessible by all people.
Under the auspices and with the support of Ministry of Culture and Sport
