{"id":192,"date":"2013-12-09T16:25:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T16:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/bmills\/?p=192"},"modified":"2017-07-27T15:44:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T20:44:03","slug":"autism-visual-art-the-all-for-one-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/bmills\/2013\/12\/09\/autism-visual-art-the-all-for-one-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Autism &amp; Visual Art: The All for One Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During this past fall, Professor Bill Davis of Western Michigan University taught a class that brought together college artists and area students on the autism spectrum. \u00a0My son, Jacob, was lucky to be one of the participants in the project. \u00a0Last week, the class had their exhibition featuring WMU students&#8217; art as well as work from Jacob and his peers in the Young Adult Program at the Kalamazoo Regional Educational Service Agency (KRESA) West Campus Building in Kalamazoo. \u00a0I invite you to visit the website describing the project\/class. \u00a0The site has links to the publication (<a title=\"Autism &amp; Visual Art\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wmich.edu\/art\/news\/archive\/2013-14\/all-for-one.html\">Autism &amp; Visual Art<\/a>) produced from the class. \u00a0(See the Program Outcomes link .) \u00a0The front page of the book includes Jacob&#8217;s dinosaur drawing. \u00a0On the exhibit image, he drew Peanuts characters, Snoopy and Woodstock, on the back of the dinosaur. \u00a0Smiling, he explained that they were his &#8220;cave-dog&#8221;\u009d and &#8220;cave-bird&#8221;\u009d figures!<\/p>\n<p>I was also interviewed for the project and the site includes a brief part of the discussion. \u00a0In the excerpt, I try to express that, in the rich range of human neurodiversity, we are all somewhere on the spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Bill and his class for this wonderful initiative!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During this past fall, Professor Bill Davis of Western Michigan University taught a class that brought together college artists and area students on the autism spectrum. \u00a0My son, Jacob, was lucky to be one of the participants in the project. \u00a0Last week, the class had their exhibition featuring WMU students&#8217; art as well as work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/bmills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/bmills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/bmills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/bmills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/bmills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/bmills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/bmills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/bmills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/bmills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kzoo.edu\/bmills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}