International Organisations

IGODAP - International Guild of Disabled Artists and Performers
IGODAP works to promote disability arts and culture worldwide and provides a forum for artists with a disability.

International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) – Arts and Disability Policies report 2004
This report looks at definitions, concepts and the terminology surrounding disability in the arts. Explores policy and program types provides examples of initiatives.

National Disability Services International Development Project Officer - Margaret Gadd
Phone: 0414 884 913
Email: mgadd@adam.com.au

Nossal Institute for Global Health

World Health Organisation - ICF
The World Health Organization International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) provides a conceptual basis for the definition, measurement and policy formulations for health and disability.

CANADA

S4DAC - Society for Disability Arts and Culture
S4DAC presents and produces works by artists with disabilities and promotes artistic excellence among artists with disabilities working in a variety of disciplines.

Picasso Pro
Based in Ontario, Picasso PRO was formed to facilitate opportunity for artists with disabilities in the performing and media arts.

NEW ZEALAND

Arts Access Aotearoa
Arts Access Aotearoa works to ensure that people and communities in New Zealand have unhindered access to the arts with opportunities to create, perform and develop their own arts.

Creative Momentum
Creative Momentum is a virtual movement around creative diversity

UNITED KINGDOM

Arts Council England
Arts Council England is the national development agency for the arts in England. Their website includes information related to the arts and disability which can be found by using 'disability' as a search term.

Arts & Disability studio (Ireland)

Arts & Disability studio (Scotland)

Centre for Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine UK
The Centre's aim is to pursue interdisciplinary research and educational initiatives that will explore and extend the relationship between the humanities, the arts and medical and healthcare practice.

Creative Exchange
International network for culture and development.

Disability Arts Events Calendar
This calendar lists both events presented by people with disabilities and events which are accessible to people with a disability across the UK.

DAO - Disability Arts Online
DAO is dedicated to work by artists with a disability which reflects on disability as a social and political construct.

Dementia Positive
Dementia Positive undertakes extensive work using creativity to communicate with people with dementia and carers. Other publications also listed on the site include The Arts and Dementia Care a Resource Guide (for the USA Center for Creative Aging).

The Edward Lear Foundation UK
is a newly-established Disability Arts think-tank.  We have been set up to create new thinking in Disability Arts. In particular, we want to create thinking that is not led by the policy-making of arts funding bodies. We feel that Disability artists should play a key part in this process.

Holton Lee UK
The artistic vision of Holton Lee is to strive to become the UK’s leading contemporary arts organisation emphasising Disability Arts and innovative arts practice. We create exhibitions, publications, multimedia, education, and research projects designed to bring the work of Disabled artists to the attention of the widest national and international public, and to re-situate this work within the context of contemporary curatorial practice. Holton Lee is establishing an architect-designed arts building and national resource, based within our unique 350 acre environmental SSSI in Dorset, for the National Disability Arts Collection and Archive (NDACA), with support from the Arts Council’s Capital Lottery fund, opening in 2009.

Shape UK
Shape is the country’s leading disability arts organisation, we aim to improve access to the arts for deaf and disabled people whilst supporting deaf and disabled artists to challenge perceptions and promote Deaf and Disability Culture.

Taking part in the arts
Arts Council England supports this website which provides information and guidance on how to be more community and customer focussed. The website includes information related to the arts and disability which can be found by using 'disability' as a search term.

The Richard Attenborough Centre
The University of Leicester's arts centre, named for the famed documentary-maker and supporter of arts and disability, offers all people opportunities to engage with the arts as audiences, performers and learners.

UNITED STATES

Center for Universal Design
The Center is an information, technical assistance, and research center based at North Carolina State University. The Center evaluates, develops, and promotes accessible and universal design in housing, commercial and public facilities, outdoor environments, and products.

LEAD Conference
The Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts coordinates the Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability (LEAD) annual conference for those working to make arts and cultural organisations fully accessible to people with disabilities. The next conference will be held 21 – 24 August 2008.

Institute for Human Centered Design
The Institute for Human Centered Design promotes accessible design and information on civil rights laws and codes guiding accessibility in the US.

National Arts and Disability Center
The Centre’s website offers free resource directories, annotated bibliographies, and materials and articles on a wide array of subjects relating to the arts and disability sector.

National Centre for Creative Ageing
Dedicated to fostering an understanding of the vital relationship between creative expression and the quality of life of older people.

NEA Office for AccessAbility
The Office for AccessAbility is the advocacy-technical assistance arm of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). They aim to make the arts accessible for people with disabilities, older adults, veterans, and people living in institutions.

NIAD - National Institute for Arts and Disability
NIAD provides an art program that promotes creativity, independence, dignity, and community integration for people with developmental and other disabilities.

Raw Art links

Raw Vision
This international art journal profiles Outside Art- work created people considered to ‘beyond’ the limits of society.

Smithsonian Institute Accessibility Guide
These guidelines for museums and galleries, which include design tools, can help you present accessible exhibitions that work for people with disabilities as well as for the rest of the public. They represent the Smithsonian standard for accessible exhibition design.

Society for Arts and Healthcare USA
the Society for the Arts in Healthcare is dedicated to advancing arts as integral to healthcare

Universal Access Symbols
From this website you can download twelve universal symbols used to promote and publicise accessibility of places, programs and other activities for people with various disabilities.

University of California San Francisco’s Center for Memory and Aging
Dr. Bruce Miller, the Centre’s Director, has become renowned for work in the field of art and dementia. The center’s research findings include instances of dementia unlocking new creative abilities and creativity being used as an effective tool to increase communication between patients and family members.

VSA: The Organisation on Arts and Disability
An international arts and disability organisation with a network of affiliates worldwide - including Arts Access Australia. VSA works to create a society where all people with disabilities learn through, participate in and enjoy the arts.