National Accessibility Leadership AwardThe National Accessibility Leadership Award is administered through a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies The purpose of this competitive award is to recognize state and regional arts agencies that conduct exceptional and highly effective initiatives or programs for making the arts fully accessible and inclusive. The award includes a $ 30,000 NEA grant that must be used to further advance the agency’s access efforts. Review criteria stipulates that the program or initiative:
National Accessibility Leadership Awardees 2007 Minnesota State Arts Board 2007 National Accessibility Leadership Award This award recognizes the Minnesota State Arts Board's exceptional leadership and highly effective work to make the arts fully inclusive throughout the state. Over the years, the Arts Board has built accessibility into every aspect of the agency's work, from its programming to its office space, its requirements for grantees, and its efforts to reach and serve artists with disabilities, including:
2006 National Accessibility Leadership Award This award recognizes the Maine Arts Commission’s exceptional leadership and highly effective work to make the arts fully inclusive throughout the state by:
2005 National Accessibility Leadership Award This award recognizes the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s exceptional leadership and highly effective work for inclusive arts programming as demonstrated by The Healing Arts: New Pathways to Health and Community. The Massachusetts Cultural Council, in partnership with the Vermont Arts Exchange and a consortium of local arts and healthcare providers, developed this remarkable initiative that employs the arts to improve the quality of life for adults of all ages living with chronic illness in rural and urban healthcare facilities throughout New England. Through professional artists’ residencies and intergenerational arts programs, Healing Arts integrates dance, writing, music composition, filmmaking, ceramics, painting, photography, printmaking and technology into participants’ care, and provides training and wellness programs for healthcare staff.
2004 National Accessibility Leadership Award This award recognizes the New Jersey Council on the Arts’ (NJSCA) exceptional leadership and highly effective work for inclusive arts programming as demonstrated by the New Jersey Arts Access Task Force that was created by NJSCA in 1992 to assist more than 600 cultural organizations in making their programs, operations and facilities accessible to the 1.4 million individuals in the state with disabilities. The task force is composed of a NJSCA board member and staff person, leading 504/ADA Coordinators of arts groups, directors of consumer groups and people with disabilities who are involved in the arts. Working in partnership with NJSCA, the task force convenes ongoing regional accessibility workshops throughout the state; publishes a quarterly newsletter, Cultural Access News; created a statewide directory of nonprofit arts groups; and developed a self-assessment compliance tool for cultural organizations. As a result, all organizational grantees of NJSCA have
2003 National Accessibility Leadership Award This recognizes New York State Council on the Arts’ exceptional leadership, commitment and sensitivity to inclusive arts programming as demonstrated by Beyond Access to Opportunity, a statewide education, information and technical resource program created to encourage and assist grantees in making facilities and programs more innovative and usable by people of all ages and individuals with disabilities. This comprehensive and highly effective effort includes:
2002 National Accessibility Leadership Award The honor recognizes the Ohio Arts Council’s exceptional leadership, commitment and sensitivity to inclusive arts programming that makes the arts fully accessible to individuals with disabilities and to the entire arts community of Ohio. The Ohio Arts Council:
2001 National Accessibility Leadership Award The Arizona Commission on the Arts received the 2001 award for its work to help establish, as a founding member, ARTability - Accessing Arizona's Arts, a consortium developed to serve as a bridge between arts organizations and individuals with disabilities -- by promoting and assisting fully accessible arts programming, and facilitating connections to services and resources. The Arizona Commission worked to convene arts and disability service organizations in the Phoenix and Tucson areas to assess the opportunity for, and design the initial staffing and programs for ARTability; provided staff to serve on ARTability's founding board; provided leadership funding to ARTability; and worked with the arts community to encourage support for, and partnership with, ARTability.
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