Deep Winter is a season full of dark nights when shining stars contrast with the black and blue sky. It is a time of deep sleep, hibernation, shadows, spirits, dreaming, nocturnal animals, glow, cold, fire, short days, stories, folklore, rain, storms and regrowth.

counterpART is an exhibition coordinated by As We Are of leading Western Australian artists with intellectual disability – Katrina Barber, Greg Barr, David Guhl, Rebecca Johnston and Jane Ryan – at Goolugatup Heathcote. The artists involved represent diverse practices including painting, sculpture, and textile and ceramics. This exhibition is an important opportunity to showcase the excellence of the artists as well as their distinctive perspectives and experience.

The annual As We Are Art Award is a state-wide art award and exhibition open to all Western Australian artists who have an intellectual disability (aged 18+). 

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As We Are invites our artists to participate in one of our 2 x 6-week Online Art Workshops series – Landscape Painting and Drawing. Each workshop will be 1.5 hours long, held weekly, and facilitated by talented local WA artists Kate Leslie and Natalie Scholtz.  Each of the two series will be small with a maximum of ten participating artists, to generate an engaging, community atmosphere just like in-person art workshops!

In addition to our current Survey, As We Are would like to invite our artists and community to be part of an interactive Focus Group.  The purpose of the Focus Group meetings is for all of the As We Are community — artists, family, friends, art mentors and support workers, as well as all our broader partners, sponsors, funders and donors — to be able to have a direct say about the future for WA artists who have an intellectual disability.  

Independent consultants Dr Helen Grzyb and Liesbeth Goedhart are conducting a confidential Survey of all As We Are stakeholders. The Survey will take place online between 28 January to 4 February 2020, with a hard copy survey posted to all artists 28 January and to be returned by Friday 7 February 2020.

To complete the Survey please visit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/D2FSWDL

For those interested to learn more about the electronic survey we are conducting to seek your views, we are using Survey Monkey, by direct email (or hard copy) to each As We Are community member, including:

As We Are is very pleased to officially open entries for the 2019 As We Are Art Award. A big, big thanks to As We Are community and major supporters Lotterywest, Nulsen Group, My Place and the City of Perth for getting behind this important WA arts initiative and supporting WA artists who have an intellectual disability.

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