Accessible Arts
Performing arts
and visual arts for Tucson, Arizona including Third Street Kids
Disabled Artists Worldwide Network
International
Guild of Disabled Artists and Performers
A collective of artists and performers who identify as being
disabled or having a disability.
niad reproduce
accessiblearts.org/
Arts Access is based in Melbourne, Australia and
provides access to arts and cultural activity for people who are disadvantaged, including people with
a disability. (UK)
Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists (AMFPA)
"Where the Earth is Art
and every word is a song.
Hope University / Hi Hopes Fine-Arts Foundation
Features description of goals
, news, information on programs and workshops.NDAF provides the latest national and international news
in the field of Disability arts, contacts, services, links and artwork.A not-for-profit advocacy organization
seeking solutions to the problems of racism and exclusion in theatre, film and television. Frome, Somerset
, England
A small non profit agency which every week provides safe harbor for individuals with autism
who come to make art.
www.survivorsartfoundation.org/
www.orpheus.org.uk
VSA arts of Alabama
disabled frome
Art Enables
www.autismarts.com
"
Hands-On Education
www.hopeu.com/
artsedge.kennedy-center.org/forum/
www.le.ac.uk
/racentre/
www.ableworkshop.com/
www.vsartsalabama.org/
A non-profit, community-based organization dedicated
to accessibility and education in the arts.
VSA arts of Wisconsin
www.vsawis.org/
A promotional website
, advocating up and coming artists with disabilities.
yorkers expressed
Includes numerous pictures.Works throughout Wales
to promote equal opportunities in the arts for disabled people, providing training, information and
advice.
Creativity Explored
First Street Gallery Art Center
www.ntcp.org/
North West Disability Arts Forum
www.nwdaf.co.uk/
The studio is funded through the Ohio Arts Council and The Athens County Board of MR
/DD.
frome sensitivity
Arts Access of Raleigh, NC
Creative Growth Art Center
www.damonbrooks.com/
www.disabilityart.com/
Northern
Disability Arts Forum
A developmental visual arts organisation working to promote equality of access
to the arts for all those who are marginalised within the community. (UK)
Society of Disabled Artists
VSA arts
Programs, services, accessible theatre listings, newsletter and resources provided or created
by the VSA arts affiliate in Minnesota
marginalised attenborough
A non-profit visual arts center, located in downtown Oakland,
California, providing creative art programs, educational and independent living training, counseling
and vocational opportunities for adults who are physically, mentally and emotionally disabled.
www.sodafrome
.co.uk
A state affiliate of VSA arts, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing the
arts into the lives of people with disabilities.
VSA arts of Massachusetts
VSA arts of Wyoming
orpheus disabilities
is to champion
the arts for children with disabilities and advocate access to the arts.
Arts Disability Wales
Center
for Accessible Technology offers art programs to adults and children with disabilities.
Autism... Arts
... Art... ARTwork... Gallery
www.creativegrowth.org/
full time visual art center for people with disabilities
in California
Includes package overview and information on starting a troupe.We are people together
, with and without disabilities in Amherst, MA. Dedicated to full participation in schools, churches
, clubs, sports, the arts & leisure activities.
Studio By The Tracks
The Helen Keller Art Award
Offering
courses in various displines of performing arts and apprenticeships in life skills.An international
non-profit arts organization of affiliates, promotes the creative power of the arts in the lives of
people with disabilities.
mn.vsarts.org/
limitations marginalised
pages.sbcglobal.net/aslclay/
Arts Access
Arts at CforAT
Disability
Clip Art
Provides access to the arts to New Yorkers who are isolated from the cultural mainstream because
of disability or medical limitations.
National Forum on Careers in the Arts for People with Disabilities
Site presents the Forum`s agenda, concept papers, keynote addresses, daily updates, and final recommendations
.
www.niadart.org/
NorDAF promotes Disability Arts in the Northern region.
Project Ability
vsadelaware.org
/
www.vsamontana.org/
enlighten deafblindness
www.abilitiesfestival.org/
Positive images of people with disabilities in everyday
-life situations and inclusive settings.A. Offers creative-arts therapy and focused music, art, and dance
programs.
www.hospaud.org/
www.passionworks.org
www.vsafl.org/
A non-profit organization celebrating the
power of the arts in the lives of individuals with disabilities in Georgia.
developmentally disabled
Kids on the Block
Dedicated
to promoting the full inclusion of children and adults with disabilities into the visual-, performing
-, media-, and literary- arts communities.Passion Works Studio offers art making opportunities and employment
to people with developmental disabilities, practicing artists, and volunteers.
reproduce disabled
art-enables.org/
Art and
Artability
W. Topics include Disability Awareness, Conflict Resolution and Substance Abuse Prevention
.Established in 1984, encourages artists with physical disabilities by providing exhibition and educational
opportunities, as well as the shared sensitivity and emotional support needed for personal and professional
growth.
www.valinet.com/~lsse/General/openarms.htm
vsa stilgoe
Consultancy of art initiatives and projects for people
with disabilities (Netherlands)
www.cforat.org/art/index.html
New Jersey organization providing educational
programs for grades K-12.Provides educational puppet programs which enlighten children on the issues
of disability awareness, medical-educational differences, and social concerns.Painting for disabled
people using laser pointers and a tracker to create art.
Passion Works Studio
www.sensescotland.org.uk
/helenkeller
A non-profit organization dedicated to implementing arts related programming, training and
advocacy to individuals and various groups as a means to achieve personal growth, increase self-confidence
and positively shape the lives of people with disabilities.
VSA arts of Florida
disabilities positively
www.artandartability.com
21st Century D. Artists, musicians, poets and writers with disabilities are encouraged to submit creations
.
www.thekidsontheblock.com
nadc.ucla.edu/
www.ndaf.org/
www.nordaf.org/
Open Arms
(UK)
Committed to empowering
trauma-survivors with effective expressive outlets via internet art gallery, outreach programs, and
national exhibitions.A residential performing arts centre for young disabled artists founded by Richard
Stilgoe.
VSA arts of Delaware
apprenticeships attenborough
A multifaceted and multidisciplinary festival of visual and performing arts
providing opportunities to showcase artistic excellence by persons with disabilities.Art Enables is
an arts-based training and employment placement program for persons with developmental disabilities
sixteen years and older in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area.
www.artsdisabilitywales.com/Gpage1
.htm
A worldwide association of artists that organizes a wide range of exhibitions, sells original art
works and permits publishing houses to reproduce their works as art greeting cards and calendars.
www
.1ststreetgallery.org/
www.mdtap.org/md_arts.html
Making arts, recreation and cultural activities accessible
throughout Maryland for all persons regardless of disability or the nature of disability.
vsaartsga.org
/
VSA arts of Montana
www.xposurefestival.com/
attenborough expressed
www.accessexpressed.net/
www.artsaccessinc.org
Damon Brooks
Associates
An Art Center and Gallery for adults with developmental disabilities in Claremont, California
. Laser Eagles is an opportunity for people with limited mobility and speech to reveal their artistic
vision. The site offers listings, databases of practicing Disabled artists, a gallery, funding information
and grant guidelines.The Helen Keller award is a biannual award presented to the artist with the best
submission, in any medium on the subject of deafblindness. Operates the Arts for All gallery in downtown
Atlanta.
VSA arts of Louisiana
wiredesigns.netfirms.com
London
deafblindness orpheus
Established to provide opportunities for
the deaf and hearing to create and exhibit DeafArt (De`VIA), which incorporates American Sign Language
, Deaf Culture and the Deaf Experience.
Creative Spirit Art Centre
(Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Deaf Culture
Art
National Arts and Disability Center (NADC)
Facilitates, promotes and celebrates the active participation
of Disabled and Deaf people in all aspects of the Arts, Culture and creative industries.
VSA arts of
Minnesota
Wired Designs
stilgoe emotionally
Abilities Festival - A Celebration of Disability Arts and Culture
www.amfpa.com
/
Collections of artwork and music from children and adults on the autistic spectrum worldwide.
www.creativespirit
.on.ca/
www.creativityexplored.org/
N.
Survivors Art Foundation
la.vsarts.org/
www.vsamass.org/
yorkers disabled
Five databases
of articles about cultural access for people with disabilities.Encourages and enables persons with disabilities
to have full access to arts programs and facilities and participate fully in the cultural and artistic
life of Raleigh.
Laser Eagles Art Guild, Painting for Disabled People
Nuvisions for Disabled Artists,
Inc.
Richard Attenborough Centre for Disability and the Arts
Watercolour paintings, tutor tips, news and
photo album. A wide range of educational opportunities, exhibits and performances in all of the arts
from young children through elderly adults.
xposure positively
(California)
Studio space, art education, and exhibitions
for people with disabilities.
Non-Traditional Casting Project
hbedelstein.home.att.net/
VSA arts of Georgia
yorkers displines
www.deafart.org/
National Disability Arts Forum
National Institute of Arts and Disabilities
Focuses on people
with disabilities and other members of the public who have previously found access to arts education
difficult.Brings meaningful and structured arts education into local educational agencies, parochial
, and special schools.
sensitivity vsa
The mission of Accessible Arts, Inc.A resource for anyone interested in Deaf Art
, particularly the category defined by Deaf View/Image Art (De`VIA).Non-profit, fine arts facility for
developmentally-disabled adults with autism, and Down syndrome. Based in Liverpool, England
www.studiobythetracks
.com/
Disability and woodworking, resource of photos, tips, hints, and tricks of those with a handicap
who found solutions to work shop barriers.Promoting the creative power in people with disabilities through
education in the Arts.
frome yorkers
Access Expressed New England
A resource that exclusively features performing artists
, musicians and comedians, all of whom have a disability.
www.lasereagles.org/
NIAD`S mission is to provide
an art program for people with developmental disabilities which promotes creative expression, independence
, dignity and community integration.
The Able Workshop
vsa expressed
www.artsaccess.com.au/
Arts For All, Inc.
www.igodap
.org/
www.project-ability.co.uk/
VSA is devoted to enhancing the capabilities, confidence and quality of
life for individuals with disabilities through life-long learning opportunities in the arts.Expanding
the capabilities, confidence, and quality of life for children and adults with disabilities by providing
programs in music, dance, drama, creative writing, and visual art.
explored enlighten
American Sign Language / DeafArt Club
www.21stcenturydawn.netfirms.com/
First Street`s artists produce art in painting, drawing, printmaking
, ceramics, collage, assemblage, art books and creative writing.
Maryland Arts Access
The Orpheus Centre
vsawyo.org/
sensitivity emotionally
www.artsforallinc.org/
Hospital Audiences Inc.
www.kotb.com/
www.vsarts.org
(formerly Very Special
Arts)
Serving individuals with disabilities by creating opportunities for participation in the arts and
integration into the cultural and educational mainstream.
Xposure Festival
An annual month long arts festival
profiling British and International performance and visual arts by disabled and deaf artists.
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