(图：一位“特殊艺术家”高兴地展示自己的作品)
(photo: a “special” artist was happily showing her artworks)
自闭症患者将自己封闭在自己的小世界里，而在活动时，我们将玩具小动物封在了袜子中。
The Autistic confine themselves to their little world，while put plastic animals into socks.
艺无界小组前往沈阳美亚助残基金会，与自闭症和小儿麻痹的儿童进行艺术教学与互动。研究表明，在教自闭症孩子创造美术项目时，让他们结合两种以上的感官（如结合视觉与触觉）能够帮助他们跟这个世界建立更好的联系。所以我们将会教这些孩子黏土制作。帮助他们更好地感受形状和质感。活动结束后，希望孩子们能够捐赠他们制作的艺术作品给项目小组。我们将会在教学行程结束后，在社交媒体上展出和这些作品，我们会将用于改善作品特殊艺术家们的生意质量并推进社会加强对特殊人群的关注力度。
BoundlessArt visited Shenyang Premier Foundation for helping the disabled, and had artistic teaching and interactions with Autistic and polio children. Studies show that the combination of two senses (for example, visual sense and tactile sense) can better help autistic children connect with the world when they are taught to create artworks. We can teach them how to make things by clay, and help them deeply feel the shape and texture. After the lessons, students are expected to willingly donate their artworks to project team. We will display and auction off these in social media at the end of teaching agenda and proceeds will be used to improve special artists situations, thus draw public attention to special people.
第一站我们来到了辽宁省省会沈阳市，通过与美亚助残基金会的志愿团队长Kevin联系，我们结识了一群特殊的艺术家。他们有着成年人的外表，却始终有颗童心，会像孩子一样思考。虽然他们有智力障碍，却创造出了很可爱的作品。
The first stop is Shenyang, capital of Liaoning province. Through connections with Kevin, team leader of volunteers for Shenyang Premier Foundation for helping the disabled, we knew a group of special artists. Wearing adults’ look, but they always think like children with childlike innocence. Although intellectually disabled, they can also create lovely things.
（图：活动现场，两位艺无界志愿者正在向大家介绍活动）
(Photo: Two BoundlessArt volunteers were introducing events in front of special people)
我们准备了一些塑料动物玩具，小袜子，和粘土。以讲解西方圣诞节圣诞老人骑着麋鹿并爬烟囱进入小朋友家来把礼物装进圣诞袜的童话为暖场故事，之后告诉小朋友们最后可以拆圣诞袜礼物作为奖励。我们把装着小动物玩具的袜子发给大家。小朋友们（无论年龄大小，自闭症患者，智力障碍患者在正常交集当中几乎都体现出与儿童一般的表达及交互能力）会通过触摸来猜测袜子里装的是什么动物，然后发挥想象力创造。讲解规则完毕后我们给每个人都发了一袋粘土，并告诉他们可以结合自己摸到的动物形状用粘土捏出自己想象出来的形状。
We have prepared some plastic animals, socks and clay. First, volunteers explained fairy tale of Western Christmas that Santa Claus drives elks and comes down the chimney the night before Christmas to fill in Christmas Sock with presents, then told children to open socks as bonuses at last. We gave out stockings full of plastic animals to children. Children (children with Autistic and mental disorder can express same oral and interaction abilities likes ordinary children regardless of their age) touched and guessed what animals in their socks, played their imagination and creativity. After telling them how to make it, we encouraged them to shape animals by clay with their own imagination based on touch experiences.
（图：智力障碍患者正在感受袜子形状）
(Photo: Mentally handicapped child was feeling the shape of socks)
大家都很喜欢这种新颖的艺术形式并沉浸其中，有一些小朋友从一开始的毫无头绪，通过询问我们，后来做出了很多有趣可爱的泥塑。创作的过程中大家收获了很多欢乐，大家做完泥塑过后我们收集了他们的作品。
Children like these novel art forms and immense themselves in that. Some of them had no clue about art at the beginning and created many interesting and lovely clay sculptures afterwards by inquiring us. In the process of creating, they harvested happiness and we collected their works.
(图：志愿者手把手教学生捏黏土)
(photo: the volunteer was teaching how to make clay)
之后我们进行了水彩活动，给了大家一个主题，画出一些令自己开心的人， 事物，或者地点。大家画出了自己回忆里的美好并简单讲述了自己为什么画这样的一幅作品。
Next was watercolor. Children were given a theme and paint people, things and places that can make them happy. They recalled beautiful memories and briefly explained why paint like that.
（图：学生向志愿者讲解她的作品）
(Photo: The student was describing her work.)
活动结束后我们简单做了一下总结，值得开心的是，大家都很享受其中，并从今天的活动中收获了许多快乐，也了解到了一种新的艺术形式。
We made a summary when the event was over. It was encouraging to see all of them involved in it and got lots of pleasure from it, also knew about a new art form.
(图：志愿者们和特殊艺术家的合照)
(Photo: volunteers and special artists)
为了加大此项目影响力，我们将会横跨神州大地，在不同城市讲授并宣传这些方法。并以影像和笔记形式记录组员与特殊儿童的交流。希望以此让社会意识到这些孩子们能创造出多美好的艺术，进一步实现让世间一切生命均有相同权力享受艺术的梦想。
In order to expand impact of the program, we will teach and publicize these methods in different cities throughout China. Communications between volunteers and special children are recorded in videos and words. Hopefully bring the awareness to the society that these children can create wonderful art and further let all humans be equally entitled to realize their art dreams.