Issues and Theories in Art Education
Stephen Wiltshire
Stephen Wiltshire MBE, Hon.FSAI, Hon.FSSAA is a British architectural artist and autistic savant. He is known for his ability to draw from memory a landscape after seeing it just once. His work has gained worldwide popularity. In 2006, Wiltshire was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to art.
https://www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk/
Mariusz Kedzierski
Mariusz Kedzierski is a Polish artist born without arms. His talent was discovered when he was just 3. He was drawing and painting up to the age of 12 when he had to stop for a few years, but after one of his surgeries at the end of 2008, he started again.
From that time he continues his art, most of which are portraits. His drawings are sold in many countries, from the USA, Great Britain to South Korea. One of his drawings has also appeared on the cover of a CD in the United States.
https://mariuszkedzierski.wordpress.com/
Helen Rae
Helen Rae is a 77 year old deaf and completely non-verbal artist. She has been creating art since 1990 at First Street Gallery and Art Center, a progressive art studio for adults with developmental disabilities, now located in Upland, CA. Her drawings, in colored pencil and graphite, are immediately striking for their vivid imagery, resonant use of color and innovative reworking of source material. Helen had her first sold out solo exhibition at The Good Luck Gallery in 2015 and in 2017 received her first New York solo exhibition at White Columns. Helen’s work has been included in numerous group exhibitions throughout the United States, Scotland, Belgium, Japan and Paris and she has received features in Vogue, Vulture, and The Los Angeles Times among many other publications.
Doug Landis
Doug Landis was not an artist until he broke his neck in a high school wrestling match and was paralyzed from the neck down. Being a quadriplegic, He decided not to dwell on what he couldn’t do, but to explore what he could do. He taught himself to draw and paint by mouth. To overcome his limited reach, He learned to draw upside down and sideways to create the intricate detail that’s become his style. He loves wildlife and their beauty inspires him every day.
Gilles Trehin
Gilles Trehin, an autistic savant, has been drawing since age 5, but at age 12 he began designing an imaginary city he named URVILLE, which is described in great detail on this posting, and on his own linked website as well. The background of the evolution of Gilles’s talent in his childhood years is described on this posting as well by Gilles’s father, Paul. Gilles has presented his remarkable work at a number of autism conferences and conventions. They are always well received, and he very much enjoys sharing with his work with those audiences.
Dan Miller
Working with paper, ink, pencil, and paint, Miller illustrates dense layers of words and letters and objects such as light bulbs and electrical sockets, obsessively repeated into abstraction. These layers are superimposed upon each other and amalgamate, resulting is monochromatic fields of patterned forms and bold strokes.
His impressive canvases, sometimes measuring over twelve feet tall, serve as a way for Miller to organize, process, and communicate with the world around him.
Johnny Lytle
The concept of Leeder O. Men was born in 1985 while he was a teacher’s assistant at an adaptive weight training class at Santa Barbara City College. When he started to lift grown men with their wheelchairs buckled to their bodies up to the chin-up bar for fifty pull-ups, he became irreversibly involved. He published Leeder’s early antics in his own skateboard zine called Naughty Nomads where Leeder acquired a small, yet cult following. Lytle am extremely proud and honored to have grandfathered this new sport, even if it was only in spirit and on paper. He always felt that the time would come when certain individuals would alternatively love their wheelchairs and view the possibilities with a go for it attitude and skater/biker viewpoint.
Paul Smith
Paul Smith suffered from severe spastic cerebral palsy from an early age. The loss of fine motor control of his face and hands made it impossible for him to attend school—or even eat, clothe, or bathe himself—and also made it difficult for him to express himself.
Early in life Paul discovered the typewriter and a technique for using it to create pictures. He was able to use one hand to steady the other and thus press the desired key. He was creating typewriter art by the age of 15 and steadily refined his technique.
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