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Deaf Café

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A floral watercolor work in progress. Two additional pieces of paper with more abstract watercolor shapes of repeating lines and circles lie beside the floral watercolor.

Apr 07, 2024 1:00 PM

Wexner Center for the Arts

Registration is full
Free for all audiences with ticket (registration required)

ACCESSIBILITY
ASL interpretation will be provided for this event.

We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation to participate in this event, please email accessibility@wexarts.org or call (614) 688-3890. Requests made by two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the Wexner Center for the Arts will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

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Deaf Cafe invites anyone with or without disabilities to come share food, drink, and conversation at the Wex.

Enjoy an ASL tour of Sarah Maldoror: Tricontinental Cinema with a gallery educator and a guided art-making session with local Deaf artist Mania Drosak. Light refreshments will be provided in the café after the tour, during the art-making session. Supplies will be provided, and no art experience is necessary. Our time together will be about connection, low-stress creativity, and fun. ASL interpreters will be on-site.

Deaf Café is free to attend, with registration limited to 15 participants.

Registration is currently full. Please email education@wexarts.org with any questions.

IMAGE CAPTION
Untitled floral watercolor, courtesy of Mania Drosak.

"I cannot change my disabilities and see them as part of what makes me unique."

Mania Drosak

About the Artist

Deaf Café teaching artist Mania Drosak was born hearing, to Deaf parents. After having an illness as a toddler, she gradually lost more hearing and is now a Deaf adult. Drosak proudly has two Deaf children herself. Growing up hard of hearing and wearing hearing aids in the 1980s and 90s, she says she certainly didn’t fit in with her hearing peers, yet she was not Deaf enough for her family. An early diagnosis of ADHD was another isolating factor of her youth, and art was therapy for her loneliness.

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ART & RESILIENCE PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Crane Family Foundation
Cardinal Health

LEARNING & PUBLIC PRACTICE PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
American Electric Power Foundation 
CoverMyMeds 
Huntington 
Martha Holden Jennings Foundation 
Big Lots Foundation

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY 
Ingram-White Castle Foundation 
The Ohio State University Office of Outreach & Engagement 
Ohio Arts Council 
Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY 
Ohio Department of Development
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Wexner Family
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts 
CampusParc 
Ohio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme 
The Columbus Foundation 
Nationwide Foundation 
Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
 Mike and Paige Crane 
Axium Packaging
 Nancy Kramer
Ohio State Energy Partners
Ohio History Fund/Ohio History Connection
Larry and Donna James 
David Crane and Elizabeth Dang 
Bruce and Joy Soll 
Rebecca Perry Damsen and Ben Towle 
Jones Day
Alex and Renée Shumate