Art, Judaism, Disability and Pride are all connected.

There is “outsider art” also known as “art brut“, a connection with art and disability: July Disability Pride Month Art.

Through activist communities and Jewish texts, The Religious Action Center has promoted disability and the arts.

Jews have expressed their pride, dignity, and self definition though their art.

Frida Kahlo claimed Jewish ancestry as part of her identity. Her self-portraits insist invisibility without apology.

Other examples include Itzhak Perlman.

I have cared for MANY people over the years, when after they developed a disability, first found meaning in their lives with art. Many had never practiced art through childhood. Others have demonstrated self-pictures of their ailments. Others have found it to be a hobby that gives them pleasure, and PRID in their work.

For too many decades, that I remember- I have written and taught on Music and Art in the Brain.

It will take some time – I will put together an Academic Article with a personal touch that our members can relate.

Summary: We show art in our calligraphy, and sacred visual language.

Holocaust art is not only mourning, but defiance and remembering.

Abstract art brings creativity. For the Jewish man defines our strength with care and moral courage. We choose to be seen to demonstrate our diversity. It refuses to simplify us and opens our minds to our different cultural specificity with pride.

What are your ideas? for both the subject and contents.