VSA of Missouri celebrate 5 years of Vision, Strength, and Access

VSA MO is having an open house to show off our new location. Join us on October 14 from 5-7 to celebrate this
 huge milestone for us.

We ask that you donate an art supply as your ticket price! All supplies will be used in our
 new Living Arts program.

Living Arts is collaboration
 between Spirited Hands Studio and Bridges Community
 Support. 



The Mayor of Maplewood will perform a ribbon cutting ceremony at 5pm to inaugurate our wonderful space. 

There
 will be music, raffle prizes, food and drink. We are so
 excited and we want to share our excitement
with you!!!!! 


Join us Tuesday October 14th, 2014
5-7pm at 2814 Sutton Blvd
Maplewood, MO 63143

 Our mailing address is:
VSA Missouri

PO Box 58624

St Louis, MO 63158

VSA of Missouri announces first Children's show

St. Louis (January 18, 2014)--VSA Missouri is looking for artwork and creative writing made by young creatives grades 6th-8th living with disabilities throughout the state of Missouri.


How to submit:
Writing: Submit up to three poems or three short fiction or creative non fiction pieces (each no longer than 1000 words - approx. 3 typed pages). Email as a “word document”.
Visual art: Submit up to three Black & White or color images. DO NOT SEND ORIGINAL ART! Digital JPG image only. Must be 300 dpi and no smaller that 8” in any direction.


Each Submission must have the following information:
Parent or Teacher Name:
Artist/Writer Name/Age:
Title:
Medium (for visual art only):
Dimensions (for visual art only):
Mailing address, phone number and email contact.
Deadline for submission is March 31. 2014.


Selected contributors will be notified by email by May 5, 2014
Please email submissions to Gina Alvarez at vsamissouri@gmail.com
If you have any questions email or call 888-718-0866
IT IS FREE TO SUBMIT!!!


We are thrilled to have the following jurors making the selections of work to be included in our first anthology!

Jurors:
Visual Art - Edo Rosenblith is an art instructor at Giant Steps in St. Louis, MO and was awarded a P. Buckley Moss Foundation grant for children’s education and he was a participant in the 2013 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation “Power of Art” workshop in Washington D.C. Edo received his B.F.A. in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2011. His work has been exhibited in Brooklyn, NY, St. Louis, MO, Bogota Colombia Italy and Providence, RI. In 2011 he was awarded the Florence-Leif Peers Grant for painters.

Literary Arts - Nicky Rainy makes zines, writes poems, stories and letters to her pen-pals. She believes in the power of literature to unite community & is a DJ on 88.1 KDHX’s literary radio program, Literature for the Halibut. She represented St. Louis in the National Poetry Slam 2009. Her zines, "Let's Talk About People" & “Let’s Talk About Feelings” are a set of bound envelopes that invite the reader to answer questions. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

Charity Works

Please enjoy our new video created by award winning filmmaker Aaron Coffman. This minute and a half piece beautifully captures the spirit of the work we do at VSA Missouri. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3z3-5AqAfI

Consider a donation to support our work to empower people with disabilities through the arts.

As the state organization on arts and disability, we know art changes lives. 


We need your support to continue to create that change in communities across the state!

Donate through our secure paypal link:. http://www.vsamissouri.org/support-us/

Or mail a check to the address below.

Thank you and have a wonderful holiday!
--
Leslie Holt, Executive DirectorVSA Missouri
The state organization on arts and disability
vsamissouri@gmail.com
(888) 718-0866 (toll free) PO Box 58624St. Louis 63158-8624www.vsamissouri.org