□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 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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