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Registration is now open for the first session in the 2025 Odyssey webinar series, “The Art of Access.”
Date
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Time
1 to 3 p.m.
Registration
To register, refer to Odyssey registration: The Art of Access. Registration is open until 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 3, 2025.
Accommodations
All webinars include sign language interpretation and communication access real-time translation (CART) captions. To request other accommodations, use the accommodations section of the registration form, and we will contact you.
Cost
There is no cost to attend this webinar.
Continuing education
The Minnesota Board on Aging approved this webinar for 2.0 hours and 2.0 social work continuing education unit (CEU) credits.
Description
The Art of Access offers tools and best practices to universally design educational programming, arts events and community spaces to be accessible and welcoming for people of all ages and abilities. We explain how to prepare your environment, culture and curriculum to be the most accessible for the most diverse community through a lens we call S.M.I.L.E. (i.e., sensory, movement, identity, language, experience). When we prepare and when we S.M.I.L.E., we can truly begin to develop rich connections and relationships.
About the presenter
Julie Guidry (she/her/hers), cofounder, executive director and teaching artist
Julie Guidry has worked in the disability and nonprofit communities since 1997. She is the cofounder and executive director of Upstream Arts, an innovative nonprofit organization that uses the arts to develop the social and communication skills of people with disabilities. Founded in 2006, Upstream Arts is a leader at the intersection of disability, arts and learning. Julie and her husband, Matt, started Upstream Arts after they saw the positive impact of the arts on their son’s self-expression and communication with those around him. Upstream Arts now annually works with more than 100 partners and serves more than 5,000 people of all ages and abilities. Since Upstream Arts’ inception, Julie has worked closely with disability service providers, community organizations and Minneapolis Public Schools’ special education directors and arts department. Together, they developed a model to integrate Upstream Arts’ unique arts-based curriculum into social skills learning, vocational and career development training and other disability services.
Julie leads trainings on arts-based instructional strategies, universal design for learning, access and inclusion for social service organizations, school districts and arts organizations. Previously, she held management positions with several disability and youth organizations, including Wilderness Inquiry and Youth Frontiers. Julie is a member of the Minneapolis Public Schools Special Education Advisory Council and previously served on both the District Parent Advisory Council and Access Advisory Council. She also has been on the Arts on Chicago Leadership team for the last eight years, and she is a founding board member and former board chair of Wonderlust Productions.
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