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13TH ANNUAL EXCELLENCE IN CULTURAL ACCESS AWARDS

The Cultural Access Network Project is a program of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and New Jersey Theatre Alliance.

Tactile interpreter working with DeafBlind Community Access Network of New Jersey Board member/Vice President Mark Gasaway

The 13th Annual Excellence in Cultural Access Awards were held on Thursday, June 30, 2022 at Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton Township, NJ.

If you were unable to attend the event, you can still watch it below.

2022 Excellence in Cultural Access Awards Honorees

Champion Award Winner and performer Kaleigh Brendle standing at the podium offering us a song

Kaleigh Brendle

Champion Award and Featured Performer

John McEwen, Executive Director of New Jersey Theatre Alliance, Charles Patterson McKenna, Assistant Director for New Jersey Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired with his service dog, Pamela Gaston, Cultural Access Network Committee member and Executive Assistant and Public Information Officer for the New Jersey Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Dr. Bernice Davis, Director for New Jersey Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Krystal Allen, Cultural Access Network Committee Member and Community Outreach Specialist for the New Jersey Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Allison Tratner, Executive Director of New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and Mary Eileen Fouratt, Program Officer, Access and Community Arts, New Jersey State Council on the Arts) posing for a picture while New Jersey Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired accepts their Leadership Award

New Jersey Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Leadership Awardees

John McEwen, Executive Director of New Jersey Theatre Alliance, Mark Gasaway, Vice President for DeafBlind Community Access Network of New Jersey, Katherine Gabry, Board President of DeafBlind Community Access Network of New Jersey, Allison Tratner, Execuitve Director of New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and Mary Eileen Fouratt, Program Officer for New Jersey State Council on the Arts posing for pictures as DeafBlind Community Access Network of New Jersey accepts the Innovator Award

DeafBlind Community Access Network

Innovator Awardees

13th Annual Excellence in Cultural Access Awards | Full Program