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People with disabilities creating arts, or artworks and adaptations for or with people with disabilities.

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• Dance
• Education
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• Music
• Theatre

Resources in This Category

• arcadea

  http://www.arcadea.org/
  Promotes disability arts in the north-east region of England. Offers listings, databases of practising disabled artists, a gallery, funding information and grant guidelines.

• Arts Access

  http://artsaccess.com.au/
  Based in Melbourne, Australia and provides access to arts and cultural activity for people who are disadvantaged, including people with a disability.

• Arts Access of Raleigh, NC

  http://www.artsaccessinc.org/
  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.

• Arts For All, Inc.

  http://www.artsforallinc.org/
  Performing arts and visual arts for Tucson, Arizona including Third Street Kids

• Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists (AMFPA)

  http://www.vdmfk.com/
  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.

• Creativity Explored

  http://www.creativityexplored.org/
  Full time visual art center for people with disabilities in California. Includes examples of their work and how to get involved.

• Damon Brooks Associates

  http://www.damonbrooks.com/
  A resource that exclusively features performing artists, musicians and comedians, all of whom have a disability.

• Deaf Culture Art

  http://www.deafart.org/
  A resource for anyone interested in Deaf Art, particularly the category defined by Deaf View/Image Art (De'VIA).

• Disability Artist Studio

  http://chilture.com/
  Highlights a range of Chinese characters, calligraphy painting art symbols, portraits and wall scrolls created by disabled artists.

• Disability Clip Art

  http://www.disabilityart.com/
  Positive downloadable images of people with disabilities in everyday-life situations and inclusive settings.

• First Street Gallery

  http://www.1ststreetgallery.org/
  An art center and gallery for adults with developmental disabilities in Claremont, California. Produces art in painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, collage, assemblage, art books and creative writing.

• Hope Center for the Arts

  http://hope4arts.org/
  Non-profit, fine arts facility for developmentally-disabled adults with autism, and Down syndrome. Offers creative-arts therapy and focused music, art, and dance programs.

• International Guild of Disabled Artists and Performers

  http://www.igodap.org/
  A collective of artists and performers who identify as being disabled or having a disability.

• National Arts and Disability Center (NADC)

  http://www.semel.ucla.edu/nadc
  Dedicated to promoting the full inclusion of children and adults with disabilities into the visual-, performing-, media-, and literary- arts communities.

• National Forum on Careers in the Arts for People with Disabilities

  http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/forum/
  Site presents the Forum's agenda, concept papers, keynote addresses, daily updates, and final recommendations.

• National Institute of Arts and Disabilities

  http://www.niadart.org/
  NIAD'S mission is to provide an art program for people with developmental disabilities which promotes creative expression, independence, dignity and community integration.

• Project Ability

  http://www.project-ability.co.uk/
  A developmental visual arts organisation working to promote equality of access to the arts for all those who are marginalised within the community. (UK)

• Richard Attenborough Centre for Disability and the Arts

  http://www.le.ac.uk/embracearts/
  Focuses on people with disabilities and other members of the public who have previously found access to arts education difficult. (UK)

• Society of Disabled Artists

  http://www.soda-national.org.uk/
  Watercolour paintings, tutor tips, news and photo album. Frome, Somerset, England

• Studio By The Tracks

  http://www.studiobythetracks.org/
  An arts group for adults with autism, asperger's or mental illness. Provide free art classes, Alabama based.

• Survivors Art Foundation

  http://www.survivorsartfoundation.org/
  Committed to empowering trauma-survivors with effective expressive outlets via internet art gallery, outreach programs, and national exhibitions.

• The Orpheus Centre

  http://www.orpheus.org.uk/
  A residential performing arts centre for young disabled artists founded by Richard Stilgoe. Offering courses in various discipline of performing arts and apprenticeships in life skills.

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