Paintings by Kayla Corby and sculpture by Joe Katz. Come into the warmth of our gallery and enjoy the work of Kayla Corby and Joe Katz! Kayla Corby’s landscape series represents the beauty of nature with its mystery of light, shapes and depth. Her work surrounds and fills every wall in our beautiful gallery space.
What Every Parent Needs to Know to Help Their Adolescent with Asperger’s, High Functioning Autism or a Learning Difference Become an Independent Adult By Dr. Michael P. McManmon January 2012 • 240 pp • 25 black & white figures • ISBN 978 1 84905 863 6 • paperback • $24.95 Many teenagers with Asperger’s Syndrome leave school
“Visions on the Spectrum” opened to the public with a gallery filled with people and to well deserved applause on Saturday, October 1st. We had 31 entries for the show that included four wonderful pieces coming in from CIP Long Beach!
What Every Clinician, Teacher, or Parent Needs to Know to Help Their Adolescent with Asperger’s Syndrome and Learning Differences Become an Independent Adult. with Dr. Michael McManmon, Ed.D. Founder of the College Internship Program (CIP), author of “Made for Good Purpose” Dr. Michael McManmon 3/30 – Amherst, NY – Made for Good Purpose, an informative lecture
Assessment and Intervention for Executive Function Difficulties Presented by George McCloskey, Ph.D. Director of School of Psychology Research, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Coping with Asperger’s by Building a Better Brain, an informative lecture for parents, educators, clinicians, and others working with young adults with Executive Function difficulties and who have Asperger’s Syndrome, High
The Student Educational Fund (SEDF), in collaboration with NBT Bank, is delighted to announce the ‘First Saturday at the Spectrum’ Series-a series of 10 family-friendly events occurring on the first Saturday of each month throughout the school year. The day starts at 11am with a music or theatre for young audiences event in the Spectrum
By Amanda Giracca Special to Berkshires Week LEE – The first thing you notice is the light. Through a front glass window of the Good Purpose Gallery, light illuminates larger-than-life paintings of hollyhocks in bloom, exquisitely rendered in deep reds.
January 14th, 2012
Friends and Music Lovers: Please come and enjoy a concert in Lee at the Spectrum Playhouse, (20 Franklin St. – opposite the Lee Library) on Sunday afternoon, January 22nd at 3PM. A concert exploring the Italian origins of virtuoso music for the cello, as well as solo harpsichord music of the 17th and 18th centuries.
December 13th, 2011
Lee, MA (12/12/2011)— Every Third Friday from January to June, 2012, the Royal Berkshire Improv Troupe (RBIT) will perform an “Improv Comedy Night” at the Spectrum Playhouse in Lee, MA. If you liked the TV show ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway’, you’ll love this event. “RBIT has been entertaining crowds in the Berkshires for the
December 12th, 2011
The Good Purpose Gallery Presents a Holiday Open House! Join our featured artists this Sunday, December 18 from 4PM to 6PM! for “Reflection on Color/Color upon Reflection: The Paintings of Terry Wise with Hand Blown Glass Sculpture by Hoogs and Crawford.” This show has been the talk of Lee, Lenox, Stockbridge, Great Barrington and beyond
November 29th, 2011
by Francine Britton, SEDF Coordinator Opening night on Friday, November 18 brought a full house and about 150 people from the ‘Berkshires’ and beyond out to meet and greet the artists of a brand new show entitled – “Reflections on Color/Color upon Reflection – at SEDF’s Good Purpose Gallery in Lee, MA. While the night
November 23rd, 2011
November 11, 2011 – By Francine Britton, SEDF Event Coordinator The presentation – Coping with Asperger’s by Building a Better Brain – Executive Function and Assessment Strategies and Interventions for Those Working with Students on the Autism Spectrum – attracted 44 participants on a fine, sunny, beautiful Florida day in November. Dr. McCloskey gave an
November 13th, 2011
We are delighted to have Terry Wise’s works grace all of the walls in the Good Purpose Gallery, and are excited to be concurrently showing the impressive glass sculpture of Nathan Hoogs and Elizabeth Crawford as it shines through our front window and lights up our space! Terry Wise: “My paintings hover somewhere between reality and
October 31st, 2011
The Anti-Romantic Child: A Story of Unexpected Joy Priscilla Gilman had the greatest expectations for the birth of her first child. Growing up in New York among writers and artists, Gilman experienced childhood as a whirlwind of imagination and creative play. Later, as a student and scholar of Wordsworth, she embraced the poet’s romantic view
October 31st, 2011
Spectrum Playhouse Halloween Community-Wide Costume Competition (And… what a good time was had by all!) by Francine Britton, SEDF National Coordinator Take one tiny lady bug, an even smaller zebra, a princess, a troll, a witch, a hippie, and many others (all under the age of 10) and mix with Count Dracula, a tartan kilted
The Student Educational Development Fund, a 501 (c) 3 not for profit organization, has a three-fold mission:
Scholarships for students with Learning Differences to attend programs like the College Internship Program (CIP), with whom SEDF is affiliated.
Professional Trainings for educators and parents who work with young adults with Learning Differences.
Visual and performance arts opportunities for those with Learning Differences.
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