We are pleased to express our keenness to forge a relationship with The Mouth and Foot Painting Artists Association. foot and mouth artist association.
Talents on Display is an organization which is into the social business of promoting upcoming and struggling artists, especially those who are deprived physically, socially, educationally or economically, thereby being unable to arrive at a platform which can take their aesthetic talents to the larger audience worldwide.
We at Talents on Display strive to take the art of these artists across, such that they can, in an equitable manner partake in the world of art.
We intend to use their work as a medium of communication, which will perhaps translate our societal voices in a language universally understood, which touches the deeper chords of the society's heart.
Hence our keenness to partner with the artists of The Mouth and Foot Painting Artists Association.
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The Mouth and Foot Painting Artists Association is an international, registered society of disabled artists, wholly owned and run by the artists themselves to meet their financial needs. Members paint with brushes held in their mouth or feet as a result of a disability sustained at birth or through an accident or illness that prohibits them from using their hands.
In 1956, a polio victim, Erich Stegmann grew up with disabled arms, and yet built a highly successful career in Germany by painting with a mouth-held brush. It was Stegmann's belief that if painters with similar problems formed a co-operative, it would be possible for them to live by their artistic efforts and enjoy a sense of work security that until then had eluded them. This aim was to be achieved by the marketing of their work in the form of greetings cards, calendars, prints and illustrated books. The result has been a unique worldwide art movement called the MFPA Association.
With over 800 artists from 74 countries, the MFPA instills in its artists a sense of self-respect and dignity that comes from earning an independent, honest and secure livelihood through the sale of their artwork.