{"id":14693,"date":"2019-08-26T13:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=14693"},"modified":"2019-08-26T13:00:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T19:00:16","slug":"tara-thomas-receives-award-for-art-of-accessibility-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2019\/08\/tara-thomas-receives-award-for-art-of-accessibility-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Tara Thomas Receives Award for Art of Accessibility Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Tara Thomas, director of Bemis School of Art at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, was awarded the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region\u2019s Community Support for Arts Education Award. Andy Vick, executive director of the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region, presented the award to Thomas for her Art of Accessibility Project in April. The Art of Accessibility Project is an ongoing partnership program with The Independence Center. Thomas has helped more than 60 artists with disabilities share their stories, vision, and creations. She\u2019s also added better accessibility to art classes, including a more accessible pottery wheel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cHer work enables artists to turn their creativity into advocacy, plus creates an economic benefit,\u201d Vick says. \u201cTara has made accessibility for people with disabilities a priority now and in Bemis\u2019 long-term strategic plan.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tara Thomas, director of Bemis School of Art at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, was awarded the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region\u2019s Community Support for Arts Education Award. Andy Vick, executive director of the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region, presented the award to Thomas for her Art&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":952,"featured_media":14565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-14693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-summer-2019","tag-news-from-campus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2019\/08\/cc-bul-sum19-p6_1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/952"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14693"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14795,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693\/revisions\/14795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}