Art, Design, Autism: An Art Exhibition at the College of Saint Benilde - School of Arts and Design

"Art, Design, Autism" is the impressive result of the collective efforts of the College of St. Benilde, Artism and Unilab Foundation for the Benildeans to explore creative means of sustaining the practice of special artists by interpreting their works into design ideas. The exhibit is a showcase of this collaboration, which I find highly innovative and optimistic for the Special Education advocacy. See it at the DLSU-CSB School of Design and the Arts, 10am-8pm from June 16-July 29.

Here are some of the interesting stuff in the art exhibition yesterday, all designed by Benilde students, inspired by the works of the youth with autism.

Touched by the Courage of Temple Grandin

While watching some tennis at the Australian Open today, I chanced upon the HBO movie Temple Grandin starring Clare Danes - who does a fantastic performance here!  I was really touched by the movie!  Imagine if Temple didn't have that courageous teacher of hers, played by David Strathairn, she would have completely missed on what she could offer the world!  There are many scenes in the movie that showed her courage and her determination to fulfill what she felt was her mission in this world.  Her life story is truly a source of inspiration whether you have an autistic child or not.  The truth is, even "normal" people would be hard put to achieve what she has done.  She truly is an inspiration!  Thanks Temple for giving us that!