New painting marks Disability Employment Awareness Month
A new painting at the Nunavut legislative assembly celebrates the inclusion of people with disabilities. Artist Lucy Manniapik, left, presents the work to Family Services Minister Margaret Nakashuk, alongside Adebola Kolawole, project manager with Nunavummi Disabilities Makinnasuaqtiit Society, right. The painting, which shows a hunter in a wheelchair, was presented in celebration of October being Disability Employment Awareness Month. (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)
Could they have found a better subject than a hunter in a wheelchair? That’s not realistic at all and what does that have to do with “Disability Employment”? Not very well thought out before they go ahead and have someone paint absurd things.