International Directory concerning Art and

People with Disabilities (besides Japan)

 

 Resource Centers for the Art and People with Disabilities

 Art Centers and Organizations for People with Disabilities

   United States of America  Canada  England

   Australia   NewZealand  Holland  Germany

   Singapore

 Individual Artists

 Dance Companies   

 Theatre Companies 

 Other Related Sites

              


Resource Centers for the Art and People with Disabilities

NADC is an information dissemination, technical assistance and referral center specializing in the field for arts and disability. It is a project of the UCLA, University Affiliated Program.

 

Located in London, The Forum supports the development of Disability Arts from local to international levels and works with other organizations in developing accessible arts enviroments.

 

Located in California, NIAD's mission is to provide an art environment for people with developmental disabilities and promotes creative expression, independence, dignity and community integration.

 

Opened by Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, the center provides educational opportunities in the arts ranging from access level to those who are interested in a career of arts. It is a part of University of Leicester and is located in Leicester.

 

VSA is an international non-profit organization that creates learning opportunities through the arts for people with disabilities. The programs are implemented primarily through the vast affiliate network in 41states and the District of Columbia and 86 international affiliates in 83 countries. Its headquarter is in Washington D.C..

 

Art Centers and Organizations for People with Disabilities

 United States of America

Contains an online gallery of art by children and adults with disabilities.

 

Provides public education, programs and services to acheive an independent lifestyle for people with disabilities.

 

A non-profit visual arts center in Oakland, California which was founded in 1974. The center offers programs such as creative arts programs, educaional programs, independent living skills training and counseling.

 

A visual arts center in San Fransisco for adults with physical and mental disabilities. The purpose of the center is to provide a stimulating open-space studio environment in which the student/artist can develop proficiencies in artistic skills for personal expression.

 

A fine arts and education center in San Jose for adults with mental, physical and developmental disabilities. The program participants are instructed by professionally trained artists.

 

A grassroots movement comprised of artists, people with disabilities, teachers, and community members in the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan area.

 

The Art center in Los Angeles offers professional arts training, studio facilities, creative arts, educational programs, rehabilitations, and vocational oppoutunities.

 

An art center and gallery in California for adults with developmental disabilities. The artists produce art in painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics,colllage, assemblage and additionally produce art books and write creatively.

 

An art center which offer art classes to children with disabilities, helping them develop basic skills like holding a brush, mixing paint colors and shaping clay.

 

Provides creative, alternative, vocational oppoutunities and programs for adults with developmental and other disabilities in Masachusetts.

 

Located in Montana, Growth Thru Art offers art programs in the performing arts and visual arts for individuals with disabilities. You can see the personal work done by artists with disabilities.

 

A non-profit organization in Florida which provides artists with disabilities a medium for self-expression through art. Greeting cards are sold through the internet.

 

A non-profit fine arts facility for disabled adults which offers creative-arts therapy, music, art, drama, storytelling and dance progarms.

 

A non-profit organization founded in 1969 which provides access to the arts to New Yorkers who are isolated from the cultural mainstream, including people with mental and physical disabilities.

 

Located in Berkeley, California, Integrated arts works to increase oppoutunities for people with or without disabilities to define and express themselves through creative arts. Programs include an annual multi-arts festival, free workshops and community-based art projects.

 

A non-profit organization in California which serves adults with disabilities. Programs include counseling, employment, training, physical fitness and training in social skills and interaction for more than 100 adults. Includes an art gallery of personal artwork by artists with disabilities.

 

An art center in Illinois serving children and adults with developmental disabilities. The center hosts both visual and media arts programs. An online gallery and exhibition shows the work created by artists affiliated with their program.

 

NAEMI identifies mentally disabled artists and gives them the oppoutunity to exhibit their work, receive recognition, validation, vocational rehabilitation and self confidence and generate an income through the sale of their art work. Contains an art gallery.

 

Passion Works offers art oppoutunities for people with disabilities, artists and other community members in Ohio. They have a line of products such as cards, rubber stamps, floral sculpture and fine art that is offered through the inernet.

 

An artist run organization in San Fransisco with programs including exhibitions, panels and symposia. Individuals with disabilities are included in the visual arts programs that are physically accessible.

 

Southside Arts Center in Sacramento, California provides services to adults with developmental disabilities. Their programs include visual and performing art classes, community volunteer sites, life skill development, vocaions options, recreation and leisure choices and community integration.

 

A non-profit organization dedicated to providing for the special needs of people with developmental disabilities, including a daytime activity program.

 

A multidisciplinary arts center in San Fransiscofeaturing contemporary visual and performing arts, film/video and educational programs.

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 Canada

The purpose of the art center is to provide art education and studio space to individuals with disabilities who cannot access art classes. The art center functions as a public gallery and exhibits works by artists who create outside the mainstream of society.

 

The Garth Homer Society in British Columbia provides oppoutunities for people with developmental disabilities to increase their independence and development in the community through programs that facilitate personal growth and integration.

 

A creative arts center in Calgary for people with developmental disabilities offering a wide range of arts and crafts courses. An on-site gallery is open to the public, where the work of the craftsmen is showcased.

 

Singul'Art, located in Quebec supports outsider art and its creators who are predominantly self-taught and mentally ill. Some of the products they create are calenders, note cards, computer screen savers, note pads, book marks and Post-it notes.

 

 England

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 calenders.

 

Equata is a regional organization in Devon which promotes Arts and Disability through developing and supporting projects and initiatives of artistic quality by disabled people.

 

Fouded in 1986, Heart'n Soul of Southeast London works to empower disabled people through the promotion of disability arts and culture.

 

LDAF promotes the work of disability artists who live in London and the surrounding areas.

 

nordaf's regarded arts development service is staffed and managed bu disabled people and exsists to empower disabled people through the promotion of disability arts and culture.

 

Prism Arts promotes and supports disabled people's access to creative arts activities in Cumbria, England which is achieved through participatory arts projects, a free Newsletter and advisory service to disability groups.

 

A visual arts organization working to promote equality of access to the arts for people of all ages who have disabilities or mental illness, elderly people, members of minority communities and socially disadvantaged people.

 

  • The Learning Disability Arts Network for London... The network is comprised of artists in the London area who have learning disabilities or who work with and for people with learning disabilities in the area of dance, drama, film, music, multi-media, video and the visual arts.

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 Australia

A non-profit professional arts organization in Nundah Qld working with people with disabilities and people disadvantaged by social conditions with the aim to assist them to fulfil their ambitions in the arts. Information about their artists can be seen.

 

Accessible Arts in NSW provides oppoutunities for people with disabilities to identify and develop their skills for creative self expression in all areas of the art including drama, performance, dance, music, visual and electronic arts and creative writing.

 

A non-profit independent arts organization in Victoria which creates oppoutunities for all people to participate in the arts-especially people with a disability and people who are disadvantaged by social conditions through artistic programs.

 

 New Zealand

Arta Access Aotearoa's objectives are to ensure that people have access to the arts and opportunities to create, perform and develop their own arts. Programs include activities for people with disabilities. It is located in Wellington.

 

 Holland

 

 

Zizo is part of the Dentz Foundation, which offers daytime occupation for mentally handicapped people in the province of Utrecht.

 

 Germany

 

 Singapore

One and a Half Lives works to promote public awareness for the artists with disability and abroad, and to assist artists with disabilities to build a professional portofolio to boost their professional image and practice.

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Individual Artists

The gallery offers work by a memory-impaired and disabled US marine.

 

A history of Afshin Naghouni who is a Tetraplegic and examples of his art work.

 

A disabled artist who paints by holding a brush in her mouth in America.

 

  • Craig Sheely
Craig Sheely is a disabled photographer who uses a wheelchair in PA, USA. His online collection includes black and white nudes, color nudes, still life's and science photographs. He has an old site and a new.

 

David is a teenager in Ohio whose right hand is paralyzed. He learned to paint with his left hand and discovered his artistic talent. The site contains a gallery and items such as t-shirts and sweatshirts can be purchased through the internet.

 

An artist who was injured from an wrestling accident and now paints by holding a brush in his mouth.

 

Contains an art gallery.

 

Frank is a self- taught disabled artist in America whose prolific explorations in a variety of media and styles are true to his personal history. His work has been featured in books, film, and television.

 

George Widener is an internationally exhibiting artist with a learning disability. He has created nearly 800 drawings and sketches in a wide range of traditional and contemporary historically based art styles and methods.

 

Helene Oppenheimer of Germany discovered clay as a means to advocate for and inspire others after being permanently disabled in 1990.

 

A disability advocate, actor, director, producer and playwright. Her one-man show,"Belles on Wheels" has toured the U.S. and England.

 

A paralyzed artist in America who paints in Western, Mexican, and African styles. His paintings are exhibited in many countries.

 

Jerry Adams received the Metro Davidson County Disabled Artist of the Year award in 1993, and won top honors in the Professional division at the Tennesse State Fair in 1998.

 

An artist who paints and types her manuscripts by holding a mouthstick between her teeth.

 

Mouth Painter, Francis Camilleri from Gozo-Malta. You can view his water paintings and oil paintings.

 

Quadriplegic artist draws 700 pictures to be used for computer desktop wallpaper, skins, icons, and digital applications.

 

A quadriplegic mouth artist who draws Nature art.

 

Ricardo Gil is a dwarf artist who has been a recipient of one of the 25 California artists honored by the California Arts Council. Many of the photographs are available for acquisition for either personal or commercial use.

 

Scott Duffy is a paralyzed artist in the US with multiple talents in designing web pages, movies, and creates portrait drawings and visual arts.

 

Mr.Marquez is disabled in both legs after having polio. He is a professional artist and art teacher who uses the computer and an electronic pen as a tool, and has had many private exhibitions of his painting in Spain, Sweden, and New York.

 

Thomas Kahlau is a visual artist who paint with his mouth. The site contains many exhibits of oil paintings and has a German page.

 

A disabled artist in England who paints in oil and watercolors of sceenery nd buildings that she comes across.

 

She is a self-taught, award winning artist From America. Her paintings express conceptual abstracts and realism in nature. Trained as a musician, Valerie turnes to computer art to express herself when multiple sclerosis erased her ability to perform.

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Dance Companies-currently under construction

A contemporary dance company in England comprised of members with a learning disabily. Contains information on tours and education.

 

A contemporary group comprised of people with and without disabilities whose mission is to promote the collaboration between dancers with and without disabilities. The site contains a resource of related companies and organizations.

 

Located in Vienna, Austria. Since its foundatin in 1994, actors with and without disabilities work together on an artistic combination of New Dance, Contact Improvisions, acting techniques and video.

 

Cleaveland Ballet Dancing Wheels promotes a positive message about disability as well as showcases the talents of dancers with disabilities. They have residency workshops in the field of dance, theater, rehabilitation, and the physical therapy.

 

A dance company developed out of a desire to share the talents of dancers with and without disabilities.

 

Their aim is to bring the joy and drama of motion, movement and theater to performing artists with and without disabilities. Located in New York.

 

A dance company in England offering workshops and performnces for people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds.

 

New Zealand's only professional dance company with mixed ability performers. Has a profile of the performers.

 

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Theatre Companies-currently under construction

Cleaveland Signstage Theatre is a professional theatre company in the U.S. that creates theatres for hearing and deaf audiences.

 

The site contains a list of deaf theaters throughout the U.S.

 

Founded in 1982, Hands On's mission is to bring the performing and fine arts to deaf people of all age. A non-profit organization in New York.

 

Founded in 1980, a pioneering company and registered charity in England, some of whose members have Down's syndrome. In 1999, they performed in Hungary.

 

A professional acting company in Connecticut, U.S. made up of Deaf and hearing actors. The theater combines sign language and spoken words. They have also toured outside of the country.

 

A children's choir in Pennsylvania that performs songs in sign language as a community service to the deaf community and enlightenment of their hearing.

 

Founded in 1980, Wild Swan Theater's performances blend story telling, music and movement. They have an audience accessibility program and projects for participants with disabilities. Located in Michigan.

 

Other Related Sites

Artsline's database contains access details for arts and entertainment centres accross London, including theatres, cinemas, arts centres, museums, tourist attractions, comedy and music venues and galleries.

 

Camp Krem in the US provides a summer camp for more than 500 children and adults with disabilities, and also has an arts and crafts center.

 

The purchase of Courage Cards helps to provide comprehensive rehabilitation and independent living services to more than 15000 people each year.

 

CRIPPTOLOGY is dedicated to advancing the cause of disability rights, improving the level of disability awareness, and expanding the confidence of disabled people. Contains an on-site gallery.

 

Has a database of the services and programs for people with disabilities in Victoria, Australia.

 

UK's disabilities magaszine updated every two months.

 

Contains a wide variety of information on arts in the United States.

 

UK'S world's leading outsider art magazine.

 

Bimonthly magazine for the disabled.

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