The ReelAbilities NY Disabilities Film Festival
The ReelAbilities NY Disabilities Film Festival was initiated at the JCC in Manhattan, in 2007. The festival was the first of its kind to present award- winning films by and about people with disabilities. Screenings took place at multiple venues throughout the city and they were followed by discussions that brought together the community to explore, discuss, embrace, and celebrate the diversity of our shared human experience.
ReelAbilities Columbus
In 2012, Columbus became the 13th city to host the ReelAbilities NY Disabilities Film Festival. Art Possible Ohio, the statewide organization on arts and disability has presented 4 full festivals and numerous promotional screenings with an array of regional partners. ReelAbilities Columbus now has film screening events in the fall and spring of each year.
Simone Robinson
Simone Robinson, Director of Programs, is a recent graduate of The Ohio State
University where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts. She is also an advocate for the
disability community and has a podcast called, Theeclutterqueen, where she talks about
her own struggles with speech disfluency and interviews guests about their various
disabilities. Click the icon below to link to her podcast. Her preferred choice of medium is mixed media. Her future career goal is to work in New York as an art director for an art
museum. Her workforce experiences have helped further her artistic career. Simone
has been awarded the Jerald J. and Terri Katz Kasimov scholarship, The Ohio State
Undergraduate research scholarship, and currently has work displayed at Grandview
Heights Library.
Megan Fitze
Executive Director
Megan currently serves as the Executive Director of Art Possible Ohio. She served as the Director of Programs for three years prior. Before APO, Megan worked for Massillon Museum as Education and Outreach Manager. While at the Museum, she co-established an accessibility committee, created audio descriptive and sensory tours, and developed a sensory room. Before Massillon Museum, Megan worked with Dublin Arts Council serving first as Education and Outreach Coordinator, and then hired as the Director of Education & Special Projects. Through her work, she generated educational, hands-on programming for the Visual Arts Series in conjunction with local school systems. She was also the chief administrator for Dublin Arts Council’s annual B.R.E.A.D! Festival, an arts-based multicultural community festival. Megan has additionally worked for the Columbus Metropolitan Library as a Ready to Read Specialist and Global Gallery, a Fair Trade non-profit, in Columbus, Ohio.
In her free time, Megan loves traveling all over Ohio with her husband, Josh, and baby, Wesley, to experience the diverse cultural institutions and events Ohio offers. She currently serves on the Ohio Alliance for Art Education board of directors. Megan received her M.A. in Art Education with a specialization in Museum Education and Administration in 2016 from The Ohio State University. She received her B.S. in Sociology from Manchester College (now Manchester University) in North Manchester, Ind., in 2004.