An Overview

The HAI Arts Workshop Program presents:

• Arts Workshops for people with mental disabilities in community
settings

• Arts In Education for special education students and
teachers in school settings

• The Gallery at HAI, an outgrowth of Arts Workshops, The Gallery
at HAI presents rotating exhibits by self-taught Outsider artists

Workshop Staff
212-575-7696
Quimetta Perle, Program & Gallery Director
qperle@hainyc.org

Ancil Shepherd, Workshop Coordinator
ashepherd@hainyc.org

Francis Palazzolo, Gallery Curator & Studio Director
fpalazzolo@hainyc.org

HAI Teaching Artists

Alethea Adsitt (Dance)
Robert Aitchison (Fine Arts)
Gha’il Rhodes Benjamin (Performance)
Howard Better (Animation, Digital Arts)
Beverly Anne Brown (Dance)
Audrey Buchter (Visual Arts)
Andrew Castrucci (Fine Arts)
Karen Davis (Music)
Ellen Fisher (Dance)
Roberta Gurevitz (Visual Arts)
Tyrone Henderson (Music)
Eric Hibit (Visual Arts)
Dindga McCannon (Fabric Arts)
Salley May (Performance)
Joan Merwyn (Performance)
Eliot Moses (Fine Arts)
Mary Murphy (Visual Arts)
Zazel-Chavah O'Garra (Dance)
Frank Palazzolo (Fine Arts)
Anna Pasztor (Dance)
Sarah Petersiel (Performance)
Joya Powell (Capoeira, Dance)
Erica Rooney (Visual Arts)
Hester Simpson (Fine Arts)
Cecilia Smith (Music)
Machiko Takeuchi-Phillips (Dance)
Mia Theodoratus (Music)
Gil Willis (Music)
Anna Zastrow (Cirus Arts, Clowning)

Funders
National Endowment for the Arts
New York City Department of Education
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
New York State Office of Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities/
Brooklyn DDSO
New York State Council on the Arts
Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Inc.