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Appendix B: Disability Arts Resource Organizations

Please Note:
The following are national or international organizations that are resources for smaller organizations, individual artists or groups, art educators, and/or others. The Society for Disability Arts and Culture is compiling a database of individual artists with disabilities, and organizations involving artists with disabilities, from across Canada. Please contact us.

Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists Worldwide (AMFPA)
The Association acquires the reproduction rights to artwork and distributes it internationally through their partner publishers as an art print, postcard or calendar. The AMFPA represents 500 mouth and foot painting artists in 60 countries around the world. The artists receive grants or are taken on as members and receive a regular income for their art.
Canadian Office (Toronto)
416.362.9992 Fax: 416.362.8053
mfpa@on.aibn.com
www.amfpa.com

International Guild of Disabled Artists and Performers
IGODAP is a collective of artists and performers who identify as being disabled or having a disability. Its members are professional and amateur artists and performers of all genres, and producers, directors and others working in the arts and entertainment industries. In addition the Guild has associate members who are involved in or supportive of disability art and performance, but who do not themselves identify as disabled or having a disability. At present IGODAP exists only as an email list and a simple webpage. Until the collective grows and forms a governing group, the interim aim of IGODAP is to be the globally recognised collective voice of artists and performers with disabilities.
www.diversitynz.com/igodap

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
The Center works towards making the performing arts accessible to people with disabilities. Its initiatives include the Vilar Internship Program, the Performing Artists with Disabilities On Stage series, and the Experiential Education Initiative (EEI) internship program for individuals with developmental disabilities. In addition, The Kennedy Center has a strong commitment to creating innovative and effective educational programs, models and tools for the performing arts community. They publish Opening Stages, a quarterly newsletter for people with disabilities pursuing careers in the performing arts. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ office is in Washington, DC.
202.416.8727
TTY: 202.416.8728
Fax: 202.416.8802
access@kennedy-center.org
www.kennedy-center.org

The National Arts and Disability Center
The NADC is a national information dissemination, technical assistance and referral center specializing in the field of arts and disability. The NADC promotes the inclusion of children and adults with disabilities into the visual, performing, media, and literary arts communities. Its resource directories, annotated bibliographies, related links and conferences serve to advance artists with disabilities and accessibility to the arts.

The NADC is a project of the University of California, at Los Angeles (UCLA), Tarjan Center for Developmental Disabilities. They offer an online calendar of accessible performances and venues, as well as events featuring artists and performers with disabilities. You can post art and disability events directly to their site. You can also submit questions about the arts and people with disabilities.
310.794.1141 or 310.825.5054
oraynor@mednet.ucla.edu
bstoffmacher@mednet.ucla.edu
http://nadc.ucla.edu/

NADC’s Arts and Disabilities Web Tour
A tour of sites featuring the work of artists with disabilities. The links are organized by artistic discipline — visual arts, music, performing arts, media arts/film, literary and multidisciplinary.
http://nadc.ucla.edu/links.htm

Coalition of Inclusive Performing Arts
(formerly the Association for Theatre and Accessibility)
The mission of the Coalition is to foster the inclusion of people with disabilities in the performing arts by encouraging the professional growth and development of artists and administrators, and by educating and advocating for accessible accommodations at performances. The administrative office is located at the National Arts and Disability Center (see contact information above).

The National Institute of Art and Disabilities (NIAD)
NIAD is a pioneering visual arts center serving adults with developmental and physical disabilities from diverse cultural, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. Located near Berkeley, California, NIAD’s mission is to provide an art environment for people with developmental disabilities which promotes creative expression, independence, dignity and community integration. NIAD provides training in painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, decorative arts and more. Their artwork is actively promoted through an exhibitions program. NIAD Art and Disabilities Collections (books, monographs, videotapes and archives relating to arts and disabilities) have been donated to the Disability Studies Department (DiSC) at the University of California, Berkeley.
510.620.0290 Fax: 510.620.0326
reddot@niadart.org
www.niadart.org

VSA Arts
VSA Arts is an international organization that creates learning opportunities through the arts for people with disabilities. The organization offers arts-based programs in creative writing, dance, drama, music and the visual arts implemented primarily through their affiliates located throughout the U.S. and internationally. VSA Arts’ programs now serve 4.3 million Americans and 1.3 million people in other parts of the world.
www.vsarts.org

VSA Arts of Ontario (Toronto)
Creative Spirit Art Centre
416.588.8801 Fax: 416.588.8966
csac@creativespirit.on.ca
www.csac@creativespirit.on.ca

VSA Arts du Québec (Montreal)
Visions sur l’Art Québec
514.350.5520 Fax: 514.350.5522
vsaq@qc.aira.com

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