“I believe that art can be a transformative way of expressing and processing personal experiences and communicating those experiences to others. “My interest comes from personal experiences of disability and trauma, and my lifelong love of art,” Bell says.
Her keen interests in disability arts, community-based art, improvisatory arts, and trauma studies make her perfectly suited for her role in the Lab. She’s also one of the hosts of the VOICE Lab podcast. Mia Bell, a master’s student pursuing interdisciplinary studies in the Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance, is the Mitacs intern on the project. U of R master’s student Mia Bell is the Mitacs intern at VOICE Lab and one of the hosts of the VOICE Lab podcast. Funding for VOICE Lab is provided by the George Reed Foundation and Mitacs, a national not-for-profit organization that builds partnerships between academia and industry. The VOICE Lab project is a partnership between the U of R’s Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance, Faculty of Social Work, and Astonished!, an on-campus organization that works to address barriers facing young adults with complex physical disabilities. People have come together in the space for jam sessions, to develop digital multimedia work, and to engage in a variety of improvisatory and exploratory arts practices. Since opening, the Lab has been an incubator for imaginative soundscapes, beat creations, conferences, workshops, and the VOICE Lab podcast – a podcast devoted to disability, art, culture, and access. VOICE Lab (Vocally Oriented Investigation in Creative Expression), is a research project that brings inventive technologies to people with disabilities and their support networks. In late 2019, an innovative multimedia studio space opened on the University of Regina’s main campus that is giving individuals with disabilities new ways to creatively express themselves.
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