OUR VISION
Vibrant lives lived, appreciated, inspired, and enhanced through the engagement of art and creativity
WHERE WE STAND
Art is often conceived in terms of articulation and expression. A more people-oriented imagination recognizes the role of the audience. Whatever is and articulated and expressed is ultimately experienced and appreciated. The process of art connects the artist with the life-world, and that very process transforms both. The same is true about the processes that are operative within the connections among the artists, the work of art, and the audience.
Art originates from lives lived, and the life world is constitutive of the artist's experience and the world she or he lives in. The transformative processes in different art forms are not always fully understood, and may not even be speakable. For people who have encountered the artistic and experienced the transformation, though, the sense of reality is deep and profound. In some social spaces, what constitutes art is often been limited by a frame supported by the dominant groups, and such frame is often unquestioned. People who are on the margins often do not get represented, and they are excluded from the processes, and their artistic sense devalued. People of colour, immigrants, people with disabilities, people who are old and frail, just to name a few, are among those who do not always feel welcome and included in art making and sharing. They are the artistically disenfranchised.
BETWEEN Arts and Human Services is a Canadian initiative that aims at being inclusive, and in the process realizes the transformative and subversive potential of art. While people may belong to socially defined groups, they are more than all the social labels they carry. We believe in the potential of various forms of art to engage, connect, and transform, serving a wide spectrum of human aims. People involved in the processes of art negotiate a different relationship with themselves and the world they live in, including all objects physical or symbolic, and all people around.
Vibrant lives lived, appreciated, inspired, and enhanced through the engagement of art and creativity
WHERE WE STAND
Art is often conceived in terms of articulation and expression. A more people-oriented imagination recognizes the role of the audience. Whatever is and articulated and expressed is ultimately experienced and appreciated. The process of art connects the artist with the life-world, and that very process transforms both. The same is true about the processes that are operative within the connections among the artists, the work of art, and the audience.
Art originates from lives lived, and the life world is constitutive of the artist's experience and the world she or he lives in. The transformative processes in different art forms are not always fully understood, and may not even be speakable. For people who have encountered the artistic and experienced the transformation, though, the sense of reality is deep and profound. In some social spaces, what constitutes art is often been limited by a frame supported by the dominant groups, and such frame is often unquestioned. People who are on the margins often do not get represented, and they are excluded from the processes, and their artistic sense devalued. People of colour, immigrants, people with disabilities, people who are old and frail, just to name a few, are among those who do not always feel welcome and included in art making and sharing. They are the artistically disenfranchised.
BETWEEN Arts and Human Services is a Canadian initiative that aims at being inclusive, and in the process realizes the transformative and subversive potential of art. While people may belong to socially defined groups, they are more than all the social labels they carry. We believe in the potential of various forms of art to engage, connect, and transform, serving a wide spectrum of human aims. People involved in the processes of art negotiate a different relationship with themselves and the world they live in, including all objects physical or symbolic, and all people around.