These two components define us and provide a unique way for Latitude artists to engage and to contribute to our community. First is the art component- which speaks for itself and the other is Project Easy Access Lexington or PEAL.
PEAL was begun about five years ago by Latitude artist Belinda Sellers in response to a very typical and trying accessibility problem- not being able to get in the door to our local Starbuck's coffee house in her wheelchair. Belinda decided to try to create ways to bring attention and awareness to the problems and needs associated with inaccessibility and disability issues in general.
Soon we were off and running with PEAL.
Among many other things, PEAL has sponsored 3 public rallies to focus attention on disability issues, we have led over 800 people on our "InAccessibility Tour" of downtown Lexington, re paved the downtown sidewalks in many places- by ourselves through our "BrickSquad" and most importantly we discovered and advocated for the creation of LFUCG's "Commission for Citizens with Disabilities".
