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- Art Disability Expression - Interactive exhibit explores the historical, social/cultural and artistic representations of people with disabilities in the past as well as how artists with disabilities today present disabilities as content in their artwork, and use alternative methods and materials to create their art.
www.vsarts.org/gallery/exhibits/disability/index.html
- Art Enables - 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.
art-enables.org
- ARTability, Accessing Arizona's Arts - News and calendars of accessible arts events in Arizona, including audio-described and American Sign Language interpreted performances.Links to many Arizona arts and disability sites.
artability.org
- Arts Access - 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.
www.artsaccess.com.au
- Arts Access of Raleigh, NC - 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.
www.artsaccessinc.org
- ASL In Clay / DeafArt Club - Established to provide opportunities for the Deaf and Hearing to create and exhibit DeafArt, which incorporates American Sign Language, Deaf Culture and the Deaf Experience.
www.home.earthlink.net/~aslclay
- Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists (AMFPA) - 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.amfpa.com
- Autism Arts - Collections of art and music from children and adults on the autistic spectrum around the world.
www.autismarts.com
- Create! - An art and information site for people with disabilities interested in the arts. We promote access, development and opportunity for people with disabilities in the arts.
www.vcentre.fsnet.co.uk
- Creative Growth Art Center - 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.creativegrowth.org
- Creativity Explored - full time visual art center for people with disabilities in California
www.creativityexplored.org
- Cyber Gallery - Online cyber gallery hosts works created by artists from the disability community.
www.taconicresources.net/ch01-12.htm
- Damon Brooks Associates - Speakers & Celebrities - A Speaker and Entertainment resource featuring people who have a disability and celebrity speakers on a variety of subjects.
www.damonbrooks.com
- Deaf Culture Art - A resource for anyone interested in Deaf Art, particularly the category defined by Deaf View/Image Art (De'VIA).
www.deafart.org
- Disability Clip Art - Positive images of people with disabilities in everyday-life situations and inclusive settings.
www.disabilityart.com
- Disabled Artists Worldwide Network - 21st Century D.A.W.N. Artists, musicians, poets and writers with disabilities are encouraged to submit creations. "Where the Earth is Art and every word is a song."
www.21stcenturydawn.netfirms.com
- First Street Gallery Art Center - An Art Center and Gallery for adults with developmental disabilities in Claremont, California. First Street's artists produce art in painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, collage, assemblage, art books and creative writing.
www.tstonramp.com/~rjhamm
- Georgia Artists with Disabilities - Part of The Georgia Arc Network that provides unified advocacy for individuals with mental retardation or developmental disabilities
www.arcga.org/gawd4.html
- Half the Planet - Feature Arts Atricles of the disability resource site
www.halftheplanet.com/departments/arts/index.html
- Hands-On Education - New Jersey organization poviding educational programs for grades K-12. Topics include Disability Awareness, Conflict Resolution and Substance Abuse Prevention.
www.thekidsontheblock.com
- Hope University / Hi Hopes Fine-Arts Foundation - Non-profit, fine arts facility for developmentally-disabled adults with autism, Down syndrome, etc. Offers creative-arts therapy and focused music, art, and dance programs.
www.hopeu.com
- Hospital Audiences Inc. - For oveer 30 years, HAI has provided access to the arts to New Yorkers who are isolated from the cultural mainstream because of disability or medical limitations. The goals of HAI are to provide access to the arts and through the arts.
www.hospaud.org
- Inspire Website - Created for and by people with disabilities to express their creativity in any format that can be recreated on the Internet. Participation is encouraged at this site.
www.inspire.melb.net
- Integrated Arts - Our mission is to increase opportunities for people with and without disabilities to express and define themselves through creative arts.
www.icomm.ca/iarts
- Kids on the Block - Provides educational puppet programs which enlighten children on the issues of disability awareness, medical-educational differences, and social concerns. Includes package overview and information on starting a troupe.
www.kotb.com
- London Disability Arts Forum - Promotes the work of disabled artists in London, U.K. and beyond.
www.dail.dircon.co.uk
- Maryland Arts Access - Making arts, recreation and cultural activities accessible throughout Maryland for all persons regardless of disability or the nature of disability.
www.mdtap.org/md_arts.html
- Media Access Office - Promotes the employment and accurate protrayal of persons with disabilities in all areas of the media and entertainment industry, ensuring that the industry recognizes people with disabilities as part of cultural diversity.
www.mediaaccessoffice.com
- National Arts and Disability Center (NADC) - Dedicated to promoting the full inclusion of children and adults with disabilities into the visual-, performing-, media-, and literary- arts communities.
nadc.ucla.edu
- National Disability Arts Forum - NDAF provides the latest national and international news in the field of Disability arts, contacts, services, links and artwork.
www.ndaf.org
- 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.
artsedge.kennedy-center.org/forum
- National Institute of Arts and Disabilities - NIAD'S mission is to provide an art program for people with developmental disabilities which promotes creative expression, independence, dignity and community integration.
www.niadart.org
- Navigating the Body - An art installation about women in chronic pain.
www.navigatingthebody.com
- Non-Traditional Casting Project - A not-for-profit advocacy organization seeking solutions to the problems of racism and exclusion in theatre, film and television.
www.ntcp.org
- Northern Disability Arts Forum - NorDAF promotes Disability Arts in the Northern region. The site offers listings, databases of practicing Disabled artists, a gallery, funding information and grant guidelines.
www.nordaf.org
- Open Arms - We are people together, with and without disabilities in Amherst, MA. Dedicated to full participation in schools, churches, clubs, sports, the arts & leisure activities.
www.valinet.com/~lsse/General/openarms.htm
- Passion Works Studio - Passion Works Studio offers art making opportunities and employment to people with developmental disabilities, practicing artists, and volunteers. The studio is funded through the Ohio Arts Council and The Athens County Board of MR/DD.
www.passionworks.org
- Project Ability - A developmental visual arts organisation working to promote equality of access to the arts for all those who are marginalised within the community. (UK)
www.project-ability.co.uk
- Richard Attenborough Centre for Disability and the Arts - Focuses on people with disabilities and other members of the public who have previously found access to arts education difficult. (UK)
www.le.ac.uk/racentre
- Survivors Art Foundation - Committed to empowering trauma-survivors with effective expressive outlets via internet art gallery, outreach programs, and national exhibitions.
www.survivorsartfoundation.org
- The Able Workshop - Disability and woodworking, resource of photos, tips, hints, and tricks of those with a handicap who found solutions to work shop barriers.
www.ableworkshop.com
- The Arts We Need - The Arts We Need is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing Creative Arts Therapy and related arts programs to people with special needs.
www.theartsweneed.org
- The Helen Keller Art Award - The Helen Keller award is presented to the artist with the best submission on the subject of deafblindness. Entries from people with dual sensory impairment and people with disabilities will be especially welcome.
www.helenkelleraward.com
- The Orpheus Centre - A residential performing arts centre for young disabled artists founded by Richard Stilgoe. Offering courses in various displines of performing arts and apprenticeships in life skills.
www.orpheus.org.uk
- VSA arts (formerly Very Special Arts) - An international non-profit arts organization of affiliates, promotes the creative power of the arts in the lives of people with disabilities. A wide range of educational opportunities, exhibits and performances in all of the arts from young children through elderly adults.
www.vsarts.org
- VSA arts of Alabama - 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.
al.vsarts.org
- VSA arts of California - VSA arts of California promotes performance opportunities and arts education for children and adults with all classifications of disability. Includes online retail art gallery.
www.vsaca.com
- VSA arts of Florida - A state affiliate of VSA arts, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing the arts into the lives of people with disabilities.
www.vsafl.org
- VSA arts of Georgia - VSA arts of Georgia (formerly Arts for All), a non-profit organization celebrating the power of the arts in the lives of individuals with disabilities in Atlanta and all of Georgia.
VSAartsGA.org
- VSA arts of Louisiana - Brings meaningful and structured arts education into local educational agencies, parochial, and special schools.
la.vsarts.org
- VSA arts of Massachusetts - Working to make Massachusetts a more accessible, culturally vibrant place for people with disabilities and those who work and live with them.
www.accessexpressed.net
- VSA arts of Wyoming - Promoting the creative power in people with disabilities through education in the Arts.
vsawyo.org
- Western World of Art Inc. - Art kits for the hearing and hearing-impaired. Complete instructional kits, including video art lessons by professional artists.
www.westernworldart.com
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