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Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.54,0:00:15.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A memory from my childhood\Nin the 1970s:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.50,0:00:19.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being at the grocery store\Nwith my older sister
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.73,0:00:24.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and seeing someone in a wheelchair,\Nwhose head was bent to the side.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.57,0:00:29.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, as a kid, I tended\Nto sort people into categories:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.45,0:00:32.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,adult or child, boy or girl.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.79,0:00:35.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this was someone\NI had trouble sorting.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.01,0:00:38.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I couldn't tell how old they were,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.23,0:00:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I couldn't tell\Nif they were looking at me,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.00,0:00:43.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I couldn't really tell if they could see.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.59,0:00:49.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I remember tugging on\Nmy sister's sleeve to ask her a question
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.65,0:00:55.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and her nudging me with her elbow\Nand whispering, "Don't stare!"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.45,0:00:58.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Don't stare."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.31,0:01:02.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To the extent that I thought\Nabout disability as a child,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.97,0:01:06.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the message I took away was "Don't look."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.31,0:01:09.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in the 1970s,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.35,0:01:12.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"look away" might have been\Nthe dominant ethos of our culture
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.37,0:01:14.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when it came to disability.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.84,0:01:19.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was an era before the passage\Nof historic legislation,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.28,0:01:21.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ADA, the Americans with Disabilities Act,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.88,0:01:25.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before integrated classrooms\Nand the rise of mainstreaming,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.30,0:01:30.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a period when it wasn't uncommon\Nfor people with developmental disabilities
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.83,0:01:33.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be sent to live\Naway from their families
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.09,0:01:34.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in institutional settings.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.84,0:01:37.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our culture at this point
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.66,0:01:41.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,worked pretty hard\Nto make disability invisible.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.11,0:01:46.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One exception\Nwas the Jerry Lewis Telethon.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.41,0:01:48.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you probably remember Jerry's kids.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.65,0:01:54.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The telethon explicitly asked us to look.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.84,0:01:58.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1976, the Muscular Dystrophy\NAssociation Telethon
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.91,0:02:05.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was broadcast on 213 stations\Nfor 21.5 hours,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.44,0:02:08.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with musical skits and performances
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.19,0:02:13.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,punctuated by Lewis' impassioned pleas\Non behalf of his kids -
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.35,0:02:17.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,often not kids at all,\Nbut adults with disabilities
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.61,0:02:20.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who were relegated\Nto the land of eternal childhood.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.71,0:02:25.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we're considering the place\Nof disability in American culture
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.02,0:02:27.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,during my formative years,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.06,0:02:30.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we might say we have a bit of a paradox
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.26,0:02:33.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,centered on how to look.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.88,0:02:39.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the one hand, our culture\Nis telling us, "Don't look!"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.14,0:02:41.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Disability is cast as an illness
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.58,0:02:46.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we, the television viewers,\Nthe onlookers, are meant to cure.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.17,0:02:50.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fast-forward till now, 30-odd years later.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.48,0:02:52.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So much has changed.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.57,0:02:56.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've seen athletes with disabilities\Ncompete in the Paralympics,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.86,0:02:59.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Olympics, the Special Olympics.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.26,0:03:03.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The disability rights movement\Nhas made enormous strides.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.35,0:03:07.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a growing number of actors\Nwith disabilities on stage and screen.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.19,0:03:11.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our children go to integrated schools.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.68,0:03:14.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Integration is widely accepted,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.02,0:03:17.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if not as the norm then as a desired goal.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.08,0:03:21.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if we're being honest with ourselves,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.18,0:03:25.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have to acknowledge\Nthat we still have a long way to go,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.85,0:03:29.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,particularly when it comes\Nto developmental disabilities, perhaps.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.21,0:03:36.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We still live in a culture where people\Nuse the R-word as a casual epithet,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.69,0:03:38.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where there's an online movement
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.58,0:03:42.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dedicated to helping us\Nspread the word to end the word.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.22,0:03:45.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For many of us, if we're being honest,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.60,0:03:49.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's still a degree\Nof discomfort about disability.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.88,0:03:53.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe we're not sure\Nhow to read someone with a disability.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.98,0:03:55.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe we're not sure what to say,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.90,0:03:59.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we're afraid\Nwe'll say the wrong thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.76,0:04:04.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe we're not sure how to communicate\Nwith someone who might be nonverbal,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.27,0:04:05.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or whose speech might be different,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.94,0:04:10.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or who we perceive\Nin some way as different.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.36,0:04:13.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To a large extent,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.25,0:04:18.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've inherited this paradox\Nof how to look at disability.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.18,0:04:23.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So how do we find our way out of this box?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.100,0:04:26.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do we create new ways of seeing,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.94,0:04:31.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ways that allow us to break out\Nof the culture of invisibility,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.64,0:04:34.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ways that allow us\Nto see the whole person
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.97,0:04:38.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not as an object of sympathy or a child
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.32,0:04:40.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but as a multi-faceted human being?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.96,0:04:44.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Implicit in this question
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.68,0:04:48.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is an acknowledgment\Nof the limits of sympathy.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.89,0:04:51.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sympathy has a kind of built-in disparity.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.26,0:04:55.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It presupposes an unequal equation,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.10,0:04:59.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where one person empowered,\Nseemingly whole,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.48,0:05:04.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bestows something on another\Nless empowered, less whole.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.88,0:05:07.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sympathy may have its place,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.72,0:05:11.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's no basis\Nfor a long-term relationship.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.16,0:05:14.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a one-way arrow,\Nnot a two-way street.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.62,0:05:20.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do we move beyond\Nthe limits of sympathy?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.77,0:05:22.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do we see differently?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.13,0:05:27.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's one powerful answer:
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.13,0:05:29.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,art.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.47,0:05:32.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to ask you right now
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.12,0:05:36.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to think about a powerful experience\Nthat you've had in the arts,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.74,0:05:40.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a moment where something moved you -
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.79,0:05:45.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a painting, a play,\Na piece of music, a work of dance.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.15,0:05:48.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want you to try to remember that moment,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.02,0:05:52.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to hold it in your mind\Nand unpack what was happening inside you.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.03,0:05:57.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So a recent moment for me,\Njust a couple of weeks ago, in fact,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.58,0:06:00.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a trip to the new Whitney Museum
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.12,0:06:01.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in New York.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.86,0:06:03.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was walking through the galleries
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.54,0:06:06.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and stumbled upon "The Seasons" -
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.53,0:06:08.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a painting by Lee Krasner
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.25,0:06:11.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made after the death\Nof her husband, Jackson Pollock.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.01,0:06:18.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a massive work\Ncovering a really large wall,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.60,0:06:21.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,full of sweeping brushstrokes
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.09,0:06:27.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with bright pinky reds\Nand deep vegetal greens.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.94,0:06:33.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can just imagine the artist's arms\Nreaching high and wide
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.44,0:06:38.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to circle the canvas\Nand create these round, ripe shapes.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.93,0:06:43.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After Pollock's death, Krasner wondered\Nwhether she'd ever paint again,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.84,0:06:46.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this painting was her answer.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.61,0:06:51.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I found myself transfixed.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.39,0:06:53.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know if you've had that experience
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.42,0:06:55.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you're walking through a museum,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.25,0:06:58.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're pondering, nodding,\Nmaking your museum face,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.93,0:07:04.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then something\Nout of the blue just floors you.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.20,0:07:06.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was my experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.72,0:07:10.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The painting just stopped me in my tracks.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.50,0:07:15.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to linger, to take it in,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.80,0:07:18.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to have a few moments to commune with it
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.24,0:07:21.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and respond to what it was offering.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.28,0:07:25.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, in a way, the painting\Nprovoked a kind of revelation.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.71,0:07:28.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are two senses\Nto that word "revelation,"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.91,0:07:30.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I mean them both here:
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.80,0:07:35.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the sense that something\Nis being revealed to us
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.10,0:07:38.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and also that in that revealing,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.12,0:07:41.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something is awakened within us.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.28,0:07:47.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're alive and we're energized\Nin that awakening.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.86,0:07:53.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So how does all of this\Nrelate to disability and seeing?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.95,0:07:56.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Five years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.27,0:07:59.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had my first experience\Nas an audience member
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.21,0:08:02.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at a performance showcasing\Nartists with disabilities.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.98,0:08:07.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The dancers, actors, jugglers,\Nsingers I saw on stage
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.44,0:08:09.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all had developmental disabilities.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.68,0:08:16.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember watching a group of dancers\Nin Dawn Lane's Moving Company
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.87,0:08:19.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a piece called "Resilience."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.94,0:08:22.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was an elegant, moving performance
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.41,0:08:23.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the dancers
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.58,0:08:27.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,creatively riffed on the idea\Nof children playing on a playground.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.30,0:08:31.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The overall theme of the show\Nwas "Sticks and Stones."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.69,0:08:35.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in their movements,\Nthe dancers acted out playground taunts.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.86,0:08:40.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the end of the piece,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.14,0:08:46.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a dancer with Down syndrome\Nbegan swinging on a simple wooden swing
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.07,0:08:48.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that had been installed\Nas part of the set.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.18,0:08:51.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her movements were graceful,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.08,0:08:53.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they were beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.01,0:08:56.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there was also something\Nalmost defiant
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.52,0:08:59.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the way that she soared overhead.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.78,0:09:03.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was like watching a dare,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.76,0:09:05.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was riveting.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.55,0:09:11.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I sat in the audience, suddenly joyful.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.49,0:09:13.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I wasn't the only one.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.76,0:09:17.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could see and feel others\Nright there with me.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.05,0:09:21.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a little like\Na floodgate had burst.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.23,0:09:24.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was almost\Na sense of relief in the air.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.16,0:09:27.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The show was funny, and it was moving,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.94,0:09:29.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was clever,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.72,0:09:32.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but why was it so profoundly joyous?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.40,0:09:38.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What was this wave that we,\Nthe audience, were all riding?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.89,0:09:43.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before that night, I hadn't thought\Nthat much about disability.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.10,0:09:48.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And although I'd spent my career\Nin the nonprofit arts and humanities,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.17,0:09:49.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hadn't thought that much
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.84,0:09:53.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the relationship\Nbetween art and disability.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.43,0:09:57.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All I knew, sitting there,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.84,0:10:02.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was that I wanted to bring\Nmy children back the next day
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.16,0:10:05.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so they could have this experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.70,0:10:09.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew somehow that this single event,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.42,0:10:12.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this night that I had watched,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.02,0:10:16.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,encapsulated so much of what\NI wanted to teach them about life,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.42,0:10:21.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the deep and important stuff\Nthat we don't always know how to convey
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.84,0:10:25.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that we want so much\Nto pass on to our kids,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.90,0:10:28.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about following our passions
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.82,0:10:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and bearing witness\Nto what's deep inside us,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.01,0:10:33.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about humanity even,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.64,0:10:36.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what connects us, what binds us together.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.65,0:10:42.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I realized that what I was watching\Nperfectly captured the power of the arts.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.49,0:10:47.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not because the performers\Nwere all experts or professional artists.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.87,0:10:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They weren't.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.00,0:10:50.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were learning,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:50.34,0:10:53.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,carrying us along with them.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.54,0:10:56.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But still the experience of watching them
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.95,0:10:59.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,revealed for me, reminded me
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.54,0:11:03.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what art at its core does for us.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.18,0:11:07.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Art brings us out of ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.30,0:11:12.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we're moved or engaged\Nor even provoked
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.37,0:11:15.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by a novel or a play or a painting
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.23,0:11:17.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a work of dance or music,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.50,0:11:21.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are led into an encounter\Nwith another perspective.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.74,0:11:25.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So art, in this sense,\Nis always about a kind of epiphany.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.24,0:11:27.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a moment of revelation
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.58,0:11:32.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that opens up a new landscape\Nand a new set of ideas.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.19,0:11:36.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Art that's connected to disability, then,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:36.53,0:11:39.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can be explosively powerful
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.62,0:11:44.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for those of us whose lives\Nhave been spent outside that world.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.75,0:11:48.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It suddenly gives us\Na point of connection,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.12,0:11:52.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,access to a whole new way of seeing.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.74,0:11:56.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this experience can break through\Nthe paradox of looking
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.78,0:11:58.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I was describing earlier.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.58,0:12:01.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of us in the audience that night
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.82,0:12:04.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had inherited the legacy\Nof one-way seeing,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.86,0:12:06.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether we knew it or not.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.63,0:12:11.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Watching art created by people\Nwith developmental disabilities
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.64,0:12:13.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shattered this history.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.26,0:12:19.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The joy that I could feel in the audience\Nwas a kind of release,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.36,0:12:23.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like the sound of a glass cage breaking.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.67,0:12:26.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Watching the performance,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.34,0:12:30.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we saw the talents\Nand the abilities of the performers.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.94,0:12:34.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We had a glimpse of their perspective.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.48,0:12:38.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We swung on the swing\Nwith the dancer with Down syndrome
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.23,0:12:41.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and felt the breeze in our face.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.39,0:12:44.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The arrow was now two ways.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:45.18,0:12:48.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Someone was looking back.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:48.01,0:12:50.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My experience in the theater that night
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.13,0:12:53.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,led me a few years later to my new career
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.59,0:12:56.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as executive director\Nof the same organization,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.46,0:12:58.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Community Access to the Arts,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:58.56,0:13:04.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a nonprofit that nurtures and celebrates\Nthe creativity of people with disabilities
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.24,0:13:07.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through the arts, visual and performing.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.74,0:13:11.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Founded 23 years ago\Nby dance therapist Sandy Newman,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:11.62,0:13:15.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CATA has been at the cutting edge\Nof a growing movement
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.98,0:13:19.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in what is sometimes called\N"disability art."
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.60,0:13:21.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm still new to this field
Dialogue: 0,0:13:21.60,0:13:26.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and new, too, to the ways\Nof seeing that I've described.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.74,0:13:29.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you don't have to be propelled\Ninto a career change
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.94,0:13:31.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to have an experience like that
Dialogue: 0,0:13:31.84,0:13:33.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,change you.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.15,0:13:39.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Art pushes us to move\Nbeyond charity, beyond sympathy
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.97,0:13:41.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to something bigger,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.97,0:13:44.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something reciprocal.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.95,0:13:48.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As an audience member,\Nyou and the performers you watch
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.53,0:13:53.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are mutually enlarged\Nby your participation in that moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:54.20,0:13:58.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this works just as well\Nin the visual arts.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:59.24,0:14:02.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are self-portraits\Nfrom a CATA workshop
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.40,0:14:05.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,led by faculty artist Janice Shields.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.62,0:14:07.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They reflect many different\Nability levels,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:07.92,0:14:11.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from mark-making to a talent\Nfor mixing watercolor
Dialogue: 0,0:14:11.83,0:14:14.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to detailed portraiture.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.22,0:14:20.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they all capture what happens\Nwhen we look through art.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:21.51,0:14:25.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On one half of the page,\Nwe see a photograph of a CATA artist.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:26.35,0:14:29.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the other, we see\Nthat artist's self-portrait.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:30.44,0:14:36.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love that we literally need\Nthe artist's perspective
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.76,0:14:39.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to create a complete image,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:39.13,0:14:41.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a whole face.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:42.43,0:14:46.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that completed image\Nchallenges us as viewers
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.87,0:14:49.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to synthesize these two parts:
Dialogue: 0,0:14:49.26,0:14:50.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what we see initially
Dialogue: 0,0:14:50.79,0:14:53.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what the artist\Noffers us of him or herself.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.50,0:14:56.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are asked by these works
Dialogue: 0,0:14:56.42,0:15:00.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to stitch together\Nthe physical exterior of the artist
Dialogue: 0,0:15:00.76,0:15:03.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the imagination that lies within.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:04.65,0:15:07.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The artists present us here with a gift,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:07.96,0:15:10.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an opportunity to see in a way
Dialogue: 0,0:15:10.69,0:15:16.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is authentic, whole,\Nand grounded in connection.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:16.59,0:15:21.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This new way of seeing\Nlets us see ourselves in a new light too.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:22.11,0:15:24.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For if the old dynamic\Nof an "us" and a "them"
Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.90,0:15:27.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was based on a limited sense of "them,"
Dialogue: 0,0:15:27.59,0:15:32.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was also based\Non a limited sense of "us."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:32.73,0:15:35.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we let the power of art move us,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:35.81,0:15:40.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we make space for revelation, for wonder.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:41.58,0:15:45.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the force of that revelation can upend
Dialogue: 0,0:15:45.97,0:15:49.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even the most deeply held prejudices,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:49.19,0:15:52.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even those we didn't know we harbored.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:53.04,0:15:57.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We discard our old lenses
Dialogue: 0,0:15:57.49,0:16:00.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and see with fresh eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:02.64,0:16:07.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We see that we are all "us."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:07.67,0:16:13.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These works of art were made by artists\Nwith disabilities in our community.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:14.85,0:16:16.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go and stare!