Art Trends Project - Megan Lee (Art IV) Awareness Art

1. AWARENESS ART
MEGAN LEE

2. CHARACTERISTICS
• Depicts how the disabled perceive the world in a way that the non-disabled can
understand and connect with
• Artists do not have to be disabled themselves
• Variety of mediums

4. CAROL STEEN (SYNESTHETE)

5. PIONEERS: DONNA WILLIAMS
(AUTISTIC)
RACHEL MARKS
(ASPERGER’S SYNDROME)

6. EMERGING ARTISTS: MELISSA MCCRACKEN (SYNESTHETE)

7. GUDRUN HASLE (DYSLEXIC)

9. ANNE PATTERSON (SYNESTHETE)

10. JESSE JAREN (AVERAGE HUMAN BEAN)

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