{"id":27264,"date":"2010-11-18T06:33:34","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T11:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artbridgesblog.ca\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2010-11-18T06:33:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T11:33:34","slug":"story-enable-artists-with-limited-mobility-the-chance-to-create-jeff-nachtigalls-mobile-painting-device-saskatoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/story-enable-artists-with-limited-mobility-the-chance-to-create-jeff-nachtigalls-mobile-painting-device-saskatoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Story: \u00ab\u00a0…enable artists with limited mobility the chance to create…\u00a0\u00bb : Jeff Nachtigall’s Mobile Painting Device (Saskatoon)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n______<\/span>The Mobile Painting Device_________________ <\/span>Artist, Jeff Nachtigall<\/em>
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Recently, ArtBridges\/ToileDesArts came\u00a0 across an amazing project run by Jeff Nachtigall, an artist based in Saskatoon. <\/span>\u00ab\u00a0Jeff Nachtigall designed the Mobile Painting Device (MPD). The MPD transforms the wheel chair into a giant paint brush, giving people living with neurological deficits opportunity to express themselves on a very large scale.\u00a0\u00bb (from (IN)ACCESSIBLE CITY, the Mobile Painting Device page<\/a>) Here’s the story:<\/span>
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\u00ab\u00a0In 2006, I began a residency with the Saskatoon Health Region. I implemented an innovative studio program that offers participants the opportunity to express themselves visually. I developed an \u201copen studio\u201d model that challenges the clinical approach to art in health care and emphasizes the importance of the role of the artist as \u201cguide\u201d. I am a pathfinder… facilitating a process that awakens latent creativity. Instead of bringing the individual to the arts I help bring out the artist in the individual.<\/p>\n

I believe that we are all artists. Art is our first language. Before we can read or write or speak we are drawing; making marks to express ourselves. Some say that it was our ability to communicate visually that gave\u00a0ushe evolutionary edge. Art can empower those that have lost the ability to communicate. Those that find themselves on the margins of society can reclaim their voice. In my twenty years as an artist I have seen art transform lives.\u00a0 Art is a vehicle for change.<\/p>\n

In 2007 I designed the Mobile Painting Device (MPD). The MPD transforms the wheel chair into a giant paint brush, giving people living with neurological deficits opportunity to express themselves on a very large scale. With delicate and precise movements of the wheel chair\u2019s \u201cjoystick\u201d the artist applies calligraphic lines of paint. Layer upon layer the painting is built. Time passes and the work evolves. Emotion is expressed and decisions are made until the artist is satisfied. This is a deliberate process. The accident is denied as the artist is in full control. This is not a \u201cvirtual\u201d substitute or computer generated facsimile. This plays out in real time on a real canvas with real results.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0In September 2010 AKA Gallery will unveil the largest painting ever exhibited in Saskatchewan, Canada. Conceived and curated by Jeff Nachtigall (IN)ACCESSIBLE CITY features the collaborative efforts of Paul Major and Kelly Roszell in a a dynamic colour infused canvas that spans 50 feet.\u00a0 Together they challenge the stereotypes and stigma surrounding those living with special needs and represent an often overlooked and marginalized group who are truly ready, willing and able.\u00a0\u00bb – quotes provided by Jeff Nachtigall<\/em><\/p>\n

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