Artists with Disabilities Ignition Scheme: Artist-in-Residence
2016-2019

Artist-in-Residence: How it works

Students with disabilities often miss out on access to high quality teaching in the arts and nurturing of their talents. This project, by targeting schools for children with special needs, sparks the artistic potential of talented young people with disabilities, developing their skills, and even paving the way for them to aspire to a career in the arts.

Interested students are firstly invited to apply to the programme. They will then receive 120 hours per year, across a three year period, of in-depth training workshops in a specific art form:

• Pottery (Sam Shui Natives Association Lau Pun Cheung School)
• Visual Art (Hong Kong Red Cross John F. Kennedy Centre)
• Dance (Rotary Club of HK Island West Hong Chi Morninghope School)
• Music (Ebenezer School)

Artists-in-residence and volunteers

Professional artists lead the student workshops, giving encouragement and inspiration, and providing high quality teaching. Some artists on the teaching teams have disabilities themselves, serving not just as teachers but as role models to students.

The workshops also draw on a team of volunteers, including parent-volunteers, who undergo training in how to assist, such as learning about their school’s particular art form, in the do’s and don’t’s of the creative process, and hands-on experience in the creative process.