Spectrum of Movement: An Exploration through the Animated Lens was a three-month long art exhibit with pieces created by Spectrum for Living clients, living with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Through the support of the Middlesex County Arts and History Grant Program, this artistic exhibition is an exercise in animation, digital creation, and creative expression. Our clients utilize the arts to escape the everyday reality that limits them due to their diagnoses, biases, and societal constraints. Art allows them to have new life experiences and connections to their fellow clients and the community at large. Throughout the education phase of the project, clients learned the basics of storyboarding, illustration, integration, and video rendering. Their animations were created through coloring, shading, and adding texture to landscape illustrations. Upon the completion of each client’s piece, our Arts Team worked in tandem with our artists to help identify common elements among all of their pieces to create a cohesive rendered video.

Grant funding has been provided by the Middlesex County Board of County Commissioners. Through a grant award from the Middlesex County Cultural and Arts Trust Fund.

Made possible by funds from Middlesex County, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.