May 2022: The Collaborative of NY is busy creating new models of celebrating art as a community. The Self-Advocates Team is exploring ways to bring art, artists & the community together. Updates will be shared here & on the “Collab Updates” blog on this site. Stay tuned!
Annual Art Festival 2010 through 2019
The Arts Experience: Embracing the Spirit of Creativity & Inclusion The Arts Experience festival celebrating art, diversity and inclusion. Every spring from 2010 through 2019 Hobart and William Smith Colleges & the Collaborative of NY partnered to create a festival that offered people from all walks of life a platform for artistic expression and experience. Other community groups became part of the collaboration as the decade moved forward. The Covid-19 Pandemic signaled the end of Festival. In 2020, and again in 2021, the planned festival was cancelled due to the distancing restrictions of the Covid-19 Pandemic. The festival has been an opportunity for participants, including people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities, the college community, associations in the region and beyond, and the general public to explore various creative means of expression through the arts in numerous workshops and performances. Upwards to 1000 people joined each year in this celebration of the creative expression of the individual & the community.
