Arts AccessAbility Network Manitoba

Including artists and audiences with disabilities into all facets of the arts community.

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Executive Director: Jenel Shaw

This is a headshot of Jenel Shaw. Jenel is a white woman in her 40s. She has long straight brown hair and blue eyes. She is wearing a black t-shirt and a silver necklace. She is standing outside with the sunlight in her hair smiling last the camera with squinting eyes
Photographer: Felicia Byron

 

 

Jenel Shaw is a self-taught visual artist. Her artistic focus is learning new ways to craft and explore artistic expression. Jenel graduated with her masters in Disability Studies from the University of Manitoba. Her dissertation, An Autoethnological Study of Art as a Tool of Empowerment, examined her own experiences with mental illness and disability art. From 2012 until 2016 Jenel was the Vice-Chair of the Board of directors for AANM. Jenel become the executive director of AANM in 2019. 

 

 

 

Programs Assistant: Sacha Kopelow

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Sacha was born and raised in rural Manitoba.  She holds degrees from University of Winnipeg in International Development and Environmental Studies, and a BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University.  Sacha has worked in social and environmental justice for most of her career and is a practising artist, primarily working in cast glass, metalsmithing, and oil painting.  To learn more about Sacha’s art, visit her website at https://sachakopelow.wordpress.com.  Alt Text is provided on most images for the blind and those with low vision.

 

 

Newsletter Editor: Sara Arenson

 

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Sara Arenson is a writer and performer who was born and raised in Winnipeg. She has been a theatre artist since the early 2000s when, as a young science graduate, she heard the call of the arts. She has a Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours) from the University of Manitoba and a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre (Performance) from the University of Winnipeg. As well as acting, she writes scripts, articles, personal essays, poetry, and autobiographical fiction, often through the lens of lived experience in the mental health system.

 

 

 

 

 

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