This is a partial list of resources compiled by the Office for AccessAbility at the National Endowment for the Arts (Phone: 202.682.5530; TTY: 202.682.5496)
Access to the Arts
304 East Kenwood Dr.
Louisville, KY 40214-2842
Voice: 502.367.9569
E-mail: disacool@aol.com
Web site: www.accesstothearts.org |
Works directly with persons with disabilities and arts organizations to assure access to diverse arts experiences by:
*Developing human and financial resources to allow full participation of disabled people in the arts experience
*Providing educational tools concerning disability and arts issues to disabled, to arts organizations, to disability group, and to the general public. |
Accessible Arts, Inc.
1100 State Avenue
Kansas City, KS 66102
Voice/TTY: 913.281.1133 Fax: 913.281.1515
E-mail: accarts@accessiblearts.org Web site: www.accessiblearts.org |
A non-profit organization that provides a wide range of services making the arts accessible to people of all ages and all disabilities. Services include: training, workshops, arts demonstrations with students, technical assistance, distribution of free arts supplies (donated by Binney & Smith, Inc.) A resource center, consultation and evaluation, and a nationally based referral network. Publishes newsletter semiannually with information concerning access to the arts. |
American Federation of Musicians
1501 Broadway, Suite 600
New York, NY 10036
Voice: 212.869.1330
Fax: 212.764.6134
Website: http://AFM.ORG |
Membership organization. Provides grants to members through the Lester Petrillo Fund for musicians with disabilities. |
AXIS Dance Company
1428 Alica Street, Suite 201
Oakland, CA 94612
Judith Smith, Artistic Director
Voice: 510.625.0110
Fax: 510.625.0321
Email: judy@axisdance.org
Website: http://www.axisdance.org/ |
Axis Dance Company is an established and internationally known Bay Area dance company with a commitment to collaborations between people with and without disabilities; innovation in dance performance; and to professional excellence. Axis is creating a new form of contemporary dance, bringing to stage exciting and profound performances. AXIS' work has received awards and critical praise from audiences and performing artists in both the arts and disability communities intentionally. AXIS offers performances, residencies, workshops, master classes and a Community Education Outreach Program. |
Cleveland Sign Stage Theatre
8500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106
Voice: 216.229.2838 TTY: 216.229.0431 Fax: 216.229.2769
E-mail: deaftheatre@signstage.org
Web site: www.signstage.org |
Professional theatre that brings deaf and hard of-hearing actors together through a shared theatrical experience. Provides theatrical and educational performances, workshops, and residencies for deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing persons. Circulates mailing list information on tours. |
Coalition for Disabled Musicians, Inc.
B-sharp NEWS
P.O. Box 1002M
Bay Shore, New York 11706-0533
Voice: 631-586-0366
Email: CDMNews@aol.com
Website: www.disabled-musicians.org |
CDM was formed to give people with disabilities the opportunity to pursue their musical dreams. CDM is a volunteer-run, non-profit, self-help organization for individuals with disabilities providing assistance in the pursuit of musical aspirations. Using individual adaptive techniques and equipment, CDM gives musicians with disabilities the opportunity to develop skills, join performing groups and entertain and inspire audiences. |
Culture! Disability! Talent
P.O. Box 1107
Berkeley, CA 94701
Voice: 510.845.5576
Email: cdtinfo@aol.com
Website: http://www.culturedisabilitytalent.org |
Culture! Disability! Talent is a nonprofit organization that works to improve the representation and participation of individuals with disabilities in all aspects of media by promoting performers, artists, and media makers with disabilities. One part of CDT is their annual Superfest International Media Festival. The film festival exhibits works by both amateurs and professionals |
Dancing Wheels of the Cleveland Ballet
Mary-Verdi Fletcher, Founder
c/o Professional Flair, Inc.
Bulkley Building 3615 Euclid Avenue, 3rd floor
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
Voice/TTY: 216.432.0306
Fax: 216.432.0308
E-mail: proflair1@aol.com
Web site: www.dancingwheels.org |
A dance company made up of professional dancers with or without disabilities. Specialized in innovative and avant-garde integrated dance performances. Offers master classes to professionals and college students, and a weekly dance class and summer dance workshop for dancers of all levels. |
Deaf Media, Inc
2600 Tenth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710-2522
Voice: 510.841.0163 TTY: 510.841.0165 Fax: 510.841.1651
E-mail: info@deafmedia.org |
Established in 1974, DEAF Media is dedicated to advocating for Deaf arts and to developing cultural, education, and professional opportunities for the Deaf community. Programs include visual arts, performing arts, outreach, advocacy, information & referral, as well as broadcast television and media distribution. |
Friends in Art, of the American Council ofthe Blind
Mike Mandel, President
400 W. 43rd. St. #20L
New York, NY 10036
Voice: (212) 868-0345
E-mail: mmandel@flashcom.net |
FIA works to expand the arts experience of people who are blind by encouraging them to visit museums, galleries, concerts, and theaters. Membership includes: blind, low vision, and sighted artists, and enthusiasts interested in visual art, tactile art, music, writing, drama, photography, and various other art forms. FIX offers consultation to program planners in establishing accessible art museum exhibitions. Presents a “Performing Arts Showcase” during the annual ACB Convention and publishes the Log of Bridgetender in large print, Braille, and cassette. |
Independent Arts Gallery
Queens Independent Living Center
Christian Valle, Special Projects
140-40 Queens Boulevard
Jamaica, NY 11435 Voice: 718.658.2526
TTY: 718.658.4720
Email: contact@qilc.org
Web site: www.qilc.org |
IAG is a project of the Queens Independent Living Center, a community-based, nonresidential center providing services and advocacy for all people with disabilities. IAG is committed to uniting artists with and without disabilities to build a strong and diverse artistic community. Provides cross-disability workshops in visual, literary and performing arts. Hosts exhibits at the Center in Queens and holds an annual juried exhibition in a Manhattan venue. |
Infinity Dance Theater
Kitty Lunn, Executive Director
220 West 93rd Street No. 6-C
New York, NY 10025
Voice: 212.877.3490
Fax: 212.799.1922
Email: k1infinity@aol.com or
info@infinitydance.com
Web site: www.infinitydance.com
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Provides public performances, lecture demonstrations, workshops, and classes for people of all ages and abilities using the Meissner acting method and the development of wheel-chair dance technique based primarily on classical ballet and modern dance. |
International Center On Deafness and the Arts
Kathleen Herman, Executive Director of Programs
614 Anthony Trail
Northbrook, Ill 60062
Voice:847.509.8260
TTY: 847.509.8257
Fax: 847.509.8157
Email: icoda@aol.com
Web site: http://www.icodaarts.org/ |
The International Center on Deafness and the Arts (ICODA) provides education training and artistic opportunities for the deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing community to participate in and observe the highest qualify of professional artistic endeavors. Opportunities with ICODA include theatre, arts festivals, museums, dance, distance learning and children’s programming. |
National Arts and Disability Center
UCLA University Affiliation Program Contact: Dr. Olivia Raynor, Director
300 UCLA Medical Plaza, Rm. 3310
Los Angeles, California 90095-6967
Voice: 310.794.1141
Fax: 310.794.1143
Email: orayor@mednet.ucla.edu
Website: http://nadc.ucla.edu/ |
The National Arts and Disability Center (NADC) is a resource, information, and training center that provides information on the arts and disabilities. The NADC is dedicated to the inclusion of children and adults with disabilities into media, literary, visual, and performing arts communities. We respond to individual requests for information and technical assistance and in order to assist the arts communities. |
National Federation for the Blind
1800 Johnson Street
Baltimore, MD 21230
Voice: 410.659.9314
Fax: 410.685.5653
Email: nfb@nfb.org
Web site: www.nfb.org |
A customer civil rights advocacy group of 50,000 blind persons which works through public education to create better opportunities and change existing attitudes about blindness. Maintains the International Braille and Technology Center, allowing access to state of the art assistive computers and databases. Special interest groups include an artists' organization and a writers’ membership organization. Writers’ organization publishes a magazine Slate and Style, four times a year and is available in Braille, cassette, and enlarged print format. Also provides critiques for a reasonable fee and publishes collaborative books of literature, including Summit (1997). |
National Institute of Art and Disabilities
Contact: Pat Coleman, Executive Director
551 23rd Street
Richmond, CA 94804
Voice: 510.620.0290
Fax: 510.620.0326
Email: admin@niadart.org or patcoleman@niadart.org
Web site: www.niadart.org |
Provides visual arts studio for developmentally disabled adults, training workshops, and publications (e.g. Art and Disabilities, Elias Katz and Florence Lundins-Katz, 1983), resource center, consultation and referrals. Exhibit and market art on a local, national and international level. |
National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped
New York Offices
535 Greenwich Street
New York, NY 10013
Voice: 212.206.7789
Fax: 212.206.0200 Maine Campus
96 Church Street
Belfast, ME 04915
Voice: 207.338.6894
Fax: 207.338.6075
Email: admissions@ntwh.org
Web site: www.ntwh.org |
A non-profit organization founded to provide the disabled community with the communication skills necessary to pursue life in the professional theatre and enhance their opportunities in the workplace. Programs include a theatre training school, which convenes for the academic semesters; a year round traveling cabaret performance; and an Annual Festival of Short Works, performing short works solicited from nationally professional playwrights, dealing with themes of disability. Residential campus in Maine offers a writers-in-residence program. |
New York Foundation for the Arts
155 Avenue of the Americas
14th Floor
New York, NY 10013-1507
Voice: 212.366.6900
Fax: 212.366.1778
E-mail: nyfainfo@nyfa.org
Web site: www.nyfa.org |
Sponsors art grants and fellowship programs for the disabled community. Also, provides technology and audience exchange programs for disabled artists. |
Non-Traditional Casting Project
1560 Broadway, Suite 1600
New York, NY 10036
Voice: 212.730.4750
Fax: 212.730.4820
E-mail: info@ntcp.org or sjensen@ntcp.org
Web site: www.ntcp.org
Contact: Sharon Jensen, Executive Director |
Founded in 1986, the Non-Traditional Casting Project was established to increase the involvement and appearance of artists with disabilities and artists of color in film, television and theatre. NTCP provides consultation on a variety of issues including hiring standards and practices to casting decisions. The Project continues to raise awareness about its mission through programs for directors, producers and casting directors. |
Theatre by the Blind
306 West 18th Street Apt. 3
New York, NY 10011
Voice/TTY: 212.243.4337
Fax: 212.243.4337
Email contact: gar@nyc.rr.com
Website: http://www.tbtb.org |
Theater by the Blind, an integrated company of artists who are vision-impaired and sighted, has been working for 27 years to change the image of the blind from that of dependence to independence and to integrate folks of all sight levels onstage, backstage, in the office and the auditorium. Theater by the Blind wants to be the home base theater for all disabled people living in, working in or visiting New York City, and to integrate them with general theater-goers including students and seniors in audiences of increasing size. |
United Disability Services
Contact: Kay Shellenberger
701 S Main Street
Akron, OH 44311
Voice: 330.762.9755
Fax: 330.762.0912
TTY: 330.379.3349
Email: kshellenberger@udsakron.org
Web site: www.udsakron.org |
Publishes Kaleidoscope: International Magazine of Literature, Fine Arts, and Disability semiannually for a cost of $9.00 for individuals and $14.00 for institutions. |
VSA arts Headquarters
(An affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts)
818 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 600
Washington, DC 20006
Voice: 202.628.2800
TTY: 202.737.0645
Fax: 202.429.0868
Toll Free: 800.933.8721
E-mail: info@vsarts.org Website: http://www.vsarts.org |
An educational affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts that coordinates arts programs for people with physical and mental disabilities. Their programs are implemented through a network of local, state, and national organizations, including educational and cultural institutions, arts agencies, associations for persons with disabilities, and health and rehabilitation organizations. These groups, in turn, work with parents, volunteers, teachers, trainers, artists, health specialists, and other experts to develop talents and skills in participants of all ages. They have many publications, including Putting Creativity To Work: Careers In The Arts For People With Disabilities (2000) and VSA arts' Disability Awareness Guide (1999). |
VSA arts Online Gallery
818 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Voice: 202.628.2800
TTY: 202.737.0645
Toll Free: 800.933.8721
Fax: 202.429.0868
E-mail: gallery@vsarts.org
Web site: www.vsarts.org/x282.xml |
Representing emerging artists and professional artists with disabilities, and is part of VSA arts organization. In addition to online exhibits, it maintains a slide registry of works by artists throughout the country.
Of special interest: Art, Disability & Expression Exhibit, a virtual exhibition exploring the historical, emotional and sociological influences that have shaped artists with disabilities' expression. |
