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Lefens' enlightened work has not gone unnoticed. He is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Award for Painting. He founded A.R.T. with a seed grant from one of America's pre-eminent artists, Roy Lichtenstein, and since the artist's death A.R.T. has been supported by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation. A.R.T. received the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Teaching Award. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, America's largest and premier health foundation, has recognized A.R.T. with two of its highest accolades, the Community Health Leadership Award and the President's Award. A.R.T. has been embraced by Princeton University's Department of Creative Arts where the nonprofit's flagship program operates.

Despite the recognition and praise that has been showered upon A.R.T., many of the leading disabilities organizations -- ironically, those who could benefit most from A.R.T. -- have met the breakthrough artistic program with skepticism and outright disbelief. "I couldn't believe they weren't banging down our door to get A.R.T. for those they're paid to serve," noted Lefens.

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Artistic Realization Technologies (A.R.T.) was founded by Tim Lefens in 1995. It received its 501(c)(3) status in 1997. Headquartered on the campus of Princeton University in New Jersey, six other centers exist around the state. Additionally, there are currently A.R.T. programs operating in Arizona, Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi, Ohio, Massachusetts, New Zealand and Canada, with many more springing up across the U.S. For more information and to view the artists' work, visit