2016/17 Award "DISABILITY AND INTERACTION. THE BODY AS A MEANS OF EXPRESSION"

The theme proposed for the third year of the Award is: INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES. DISABILITY AND INTERACTION; THE BODY AS A MEANS OF EXPRESSION.

Sports, fitness, dance, mime, sign language, allow for an effective type of communication that differs from verbal communication.

The International Day of Persons with Disabilities is celebrated by the United Nations on 3 December each year.

The following institutions participated. Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, L’Aquila, Milan, Palermo, Rome, Turin, Urbino. Experimental Center of Cinematography Turin. Specialization course Scuola del Libro, Urbino. Robert Gordon University Aberdeen. Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne. Glasgow School of Art. York St John University.

Two first prizes, two second prizes of 300 euros each, and two third prizes consisting of art books were awarded. One set for students from Italian institutions, one for students from British institutions. The first prize for English participants consists of a week of hospitality with board and lodging at the halls of residence of the University of Urbino. For Italian participants, a week of hospitality is planned in York. The winners of the first prize received a contribution to the trip.

The jury is composed as follows:

Bruno Bartoccini, ANFFAS

Giulio Calegari, Accademia di Belle Arti Brera.

Gaby Lees, York Art Gallery, Assistant Curator of Arts Learning

Mariella Roberti, Educational Psychologist, Urbino local authority

Robert Teed, Director, New School House Gallery, York UK

Martin Worthington, University of Cambridge, UK, member of the Worthington family.
 

The prize giving ceremony will take place on Saturday 3 December 2016, in Urbino at the Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche (ISIA), via Santa Chiara.

The exhibition of the works will be inaugurated on Monday 26 June 2017, in York, at York St. John University, Lord Mayor's Walk, in the Quad South Arts foyer. The exhibition will be curated by Nunzia Invernizzi, Artistic Director of the Eleanor Worthington Prize Association. It will close on 1 July.

To see the Exhibition of all the works presented at this edition of the Award click here

A second exhibition of some works was set up at York Hospital on the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.