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Sadya Keyrer
Biography
Jescika Van Overveld, Evert Panis, and Sadya Keyrer live and create artwork at the Galerie Amsterdam, a center for outsider art in the Netherlands. Galerie Amsterdam is the home for people who have Down Syndrome. From painting and pottery, to theatre, Galerie Amsterdam carries a creative environment Their work recalls paintings by expressionist masters. Down Syndrome is a birth defect in which a baby is born with mental retardation. Some of them even experience heart problems and have trouble learning in school. The physical features include having a flatter face, upward slanting eyes, and a somewhat larger tounge. One in every 100 babies is born with Down Syndrome. Top art professors from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam, and Amsterdamse Hogeschool Voor de Konsten (Academy of Fine Arts) guide these artists. The artworks produced by them show how indivduals with Down Syndrome have a rich and complex interior mental life.
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