Multicultural Exchange Forum: Legacy and Healing in Creative Placemaking (NY-MC5278)
Panels
Lindsey Vance, MA, ATR-BC
Vance’s professional interest and personal expertise focuses on creating art and providing workshops to her community and globally to effect social change. Through various mediums and some unconventional methods Vance uses her art to heal, to express, and to give back. Vance uses a trauma-sensitive approach in her practice with youth and families in community based, educational, and clinical settings.
Michael Vance Toombs
Michael Vance Toombs is an accomplished painter and art activist, founder and Director of Storytellers Inc., Artist Collective. Mr. Toombs is a community leader and champion for young people and the adult working artists in the Greater Kansas City area. Michael began as a young student with Matthew Monks at the Nelson Atkins Art Gallery. He furthered his study through classes at the Kansas City Art Institute and completed a business entrepreneurial course of study through Donnelly College, Kansas City, Kansas. Michael left the corporate climate as customer service manager for GHA Insurance to develop his own business in the belief that “art is a change agent for society’s difficulties.” Michael’s current art form is “interactive arts education.”
The AATA's Multicultural Committee offers an annual exchange designed to create a safe space to explore and honor collective histories and celebrate the native indigenous culture of the current conference host region. This year’s exchange will feature Michael Vance Toombs, an accomplished painter, art activist, and founder and CEO of Storytellers Inc., Artist Collective. During the exchange, Toombs will explore the connection of creative placemaking and participatory art making as the catalyst for bringing together communities to preserve legacy and initiate healing.