Open Door Arts

Our April Professional Development Program "The Hub with Open Door Arts" is available to view on our YouTube!

Thank you to Dani and Portia from Open Door Arts and Mariam from The Morton Arboretum for sharing with us about artsaccesshub.org!

If you missed the original presentation, you can visit bit.ly/cachub26 or visit our YouTube channel to learn about how the Arts and Culture Accessibility Hub provides tools to help your organization with its accessibility growth FOR FREE!

Thank you again to everyone involved in this amazing presentation, and thank you to Bridget Melton for the recording's editing and audio description.

‘Repeat After Me’ Featured Artist: Delia Harrington

Delia and their artwork were recently featured in The Reading Observer! https://www.thereadingobserver.com/community-news/reading-artist-delia-harrington-showcases-work-at-worcester-art-museum

Delia shares about their art:
“The migraine logs are quite literally repetitious, part of an ongoing fiber art data visualization series I'm hand embroidering of data from my actual headache diaries that my neurologists have asked me to keep. They are an attempt to make my "invisible" disabilities and chronic illnesses visible and comprehensible to others. Research shows that women, LGBTQ people, and BIPOC rate their pain lower, yet are less likely to be believed about our pain levels.

I often struggle with what numbers on the pain scale to assign. I frequently under-rate my pain, almost never using the highest rating that is shown here in the deepest red. Like many chronically ill people, I live with pain daily, so days marked in the light, soothing green of "no recorded migraine" could still be misleading, even in a work meant to demonstrate my pain."

‘Repeat After Me’ features the artwork of eight disabled artists from Massachusetts. Through painting, fiber, sculpture, and video, these artists assert themes of connection, embodiment, mapping, community, and identity.

This is the last day (5/13) to experience the exhibit! It is on display in the Open Door Gallery at the Worcester Art Museum through May 13. The gallery is always free and is open Wed-Sun from 10-4 PM.

For more details and gallery access, visit https://opendoorartsma.org/gallery/odgworcester/

For further access requests, email Megan at [email protected]

Image: A blue and green background. On the left is the neon yellow text “Repeat After Me.” In the bottom right is the artist’s name, and in the middle is their artwork, 'The Pain Scale is Bu****it, But it's All We've Got 2019,' a fiber artwork in which the months of the year are embroidered in a grid, and a color-coded calendar charting their migraine pain scale. The legend for the pain scale is embroidered on the right.

‘Repeat After Me’ Featured Artist: Jacoba Niepoort

Jacoba shares:
“In the works exhibited, I visualise what it has been like to live with post-concussion syndrome and mental fatigue following a head trauma and brain surgery three years ago.

These images reflect a period marked by significant physical and cognitive limitations. Drawing them now becomes both a revisiting and a repetition of that time — a period still ongoing, yet one in which reflection has become possible.

The work engages with internal communication between fragments of thought, memory, and different parts of the self. They are created in ballpoint pen, a medium that by its inability to erase, embraces undefined borders and imperfections."

‘Repeat After Me’ features the artwork of eight disabled artists from Massachusetts. Through painting, fiber, sculpture, and video, these artists assert themes of connection, embodiment, mapping, community, and identity.

This is the last week to experience the exhibit! It is on display in the Open Door Gallery at the Worcester Art Museum through May 13. The gallery is always free and is open Wed-Sun from 10-4 PM.

For more details and gallery access, visit https://opendoorartsma.org/gallery/odgworcester/

For further access requests, email Megan at [email protected]

Image :
A purple to pink ombre background. On the left is the neon green text “Repeat After Me.” In the bottom right is the artist’s name, and in the middle is their video artwork, Multitudes - a black pen and ink drawing with a texture of scribble lines. In the middle is a rendering of the artist, one hand covering their face, the other outstretched. Behind them, in the scribble lines, is a large looming shadow with its hands and arms raised.