Arts Unbound
K.R. Allen Photography
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The year was 2000 and Cathe-
rine Lazen was inspired to create
an art school which would cham-
pion people with disabilities.
Fittingly, Lazen named it Arts Un-
bound. Seventeen years later
the nonprofit, located in Orange,
New Jersey, is providing profes-
sional fine arts education, voca-
tional assistance and a gallery
exhibition space to 200-300 art-
ists annually, thereby challeng-
NJ STAGE 2017 - Vol. 4 No. 9
by Judith Kurens
ing the stigma and lack of viable
employment opportunities that
all too often are associated with
their constituency.
Lazen’s inspiration was the
love and compassion she felt in
her third pregnancy. She recalls
how medical doctors were urg-
ing her to terminate the preg-
nancy, warning her that the baby
she was carrying had a genetic
anomaly and would surely be
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