Deaf Action Center Texas will recruit hard of hearing and deaf junior and high school girls for the event and provide interpreters for the artist workshop as well as the discussion by the DADA art professionals. I am very energized about this collaboration as I found out that the deaf and hard of hearing are discouraged from majoring in the arts in college in a very disheartening way...they can't receive the federal grant that would normally go to them for college( if they pursue something else)!
We need to change this! We're hoping by bringing the girls to this event where they can hear from DADA members regarding all the careers that are possible in the arts, and to meet artists, they will be persuaded to pursue their creative lives anyway.
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