Excerpt from: Lancaster Online (clcik for full article)
Millersville University is engaging new audiences in the performing arts, with a goal of increasing accessibility for all.
The
university — which recently received a $23,500 grant through a
partnership of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters and the
MetLife Foundation — is developing projects that go beyond conventional
audience-engagement strategies.
The university was one of six
grantees selected from a highly competitive pool of more than 60
applicants that proposed cutting-edge plans to increase local community
participation in the arts.
Funds from the grant will benefit the
university's Tear Down This Wall initiative, a multifaceted disability
arts program that includes a mixture of professional art, participatory
arts opportunities and art education.
To that end, the university
on Monday hosted a community forum — titled Disability and The Arts —
designed to bring together artists, advocates and community organizers
to envision how to effectively incorporate people with disabilities into
public arts and humanities programs.
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