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• - Serving individuals with disabilities by creating opportunities for participation in the arts and integration into the cultural and educational mainstream.
  
• - Dedicated to promoting the full inclusion of children and adults with disabilities into the visual-, performing-, media-, and literary- arts communities.
  
• - An international non-profit arts organization of affiliates, promotes the creative power of the arts in the lives of people with disabilities. A wide range of educational opportunities, exhibits and performances in all of the arts from young children thro
  
• - NorDAF promotes Disability Arts in the Northern region. The site offers listings, databases of practicing Disabled artists, a gallery, funding information and grant guidelines.
  
• - A promotional website, advocating up and coming artists with disabilities.
  
• - A developmental visual arts organisation working to promote equality of access to the arts for all those who are marginalised within the community. (UK)
  
• - Established to provide opportunities for the deaf and hearing to create and exhibit DeafArt (De'VIA), which incorporates American Sign Language, Deaf Culture and the Deaf Experience. Includes numerous pictures.
  
• - Art Enables is an arts-based training and employment placement program for persons with developmental disabilities sixteen years and older in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area.
  
• - Established in 1984, encourages artists with physical disabilities by providing exhibition and educational opportunities, as well as the shared sensitivity and emotional support needed for personal and professional growth.
  
• - An Art Center and Gallery for adults with developmental disabilities in Claremont, California. First Street's artists produce art in painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, collage, assemblage, art books and creative writing.
  
• - NIAD'S mission is to provide an art program for people with developmental disabilities which promotes creative expression, independence, dignity and community integration.
  
• - A residential performing arts centre for young disabled artists founded by Richard Stilgoe. Offering courses in various displines of performing arts and apprenticeships in life skills.
  
• - Passion Works Studio offers art making opportunities and employment to people with developmental disabilities, practicing artists, and volunteers. The studio is funded through the Ohio Arts Council and The Athens County Board of MR/DD.
  
• - 21st Century D.A.W.N. Artists, musicians, poets and writers with disabilities are encouraged to submit creations. "Where the Earth is Art and every word is a song."
  
• - Disability and woodworking, resource of photos, tips, hints, and tricks of those with a handicap who found solutions to work shop barriers.
  
• - A non-profit organization dedicated to implementing arts related programming, training and advocacy to individuals and various groups as a means to achieve personal growth, increase self-confidence and positively shape the lives of people with disabilitie
  
• - Making arts, recreation and cultural activities accessible throughout Maryland for all persons regardless of disability or the nature of disability.
  
• - Focuses on people with disabilities and other members of the public who have previously found access to arts education difficult. (UK)
  
• - A non-profit organization celebrating the power of the arts in the lives of individuals with disabilities in Georgia. Operates the Arts for All gallery in downtown Atlanta.
  
• - Committed to empowering trauma-survivors with effective expressive outlets via internet art gallery, outreach programs, and national exhibitions.
  
• - A not-for-profit advocacy organization seeking solutions to the problems of racism and exclusion in theatre, film and television.
  
• - A non-profit, community-based organization dedicated to accessibility and education in the arts.
  
• - Performing arts and visual arts for Tucson, Arizona including Third Street Kids
  
• - Provides educational puppet programs which enlighten children on the issues of disability awareness, medical-educational differences, and social concerns. Includes package overview and information on starting a troupe.
  
• - Provides access to the arts to New Yorkers who are isolated from the cultural mainstream because of disability or medical limitations. Features description of goals, news, information on programs and workshops.
  
• - Collections of artwork and music from children and adults on the autistic spectrum worldwide.
  
• - The Helen Keller award is a biannual award presented to the artist with the best submission, in any medium on the subject of deafblindness.
  
• - Five databases of articles about cultural access for people with disabilities.
  
• - Dedicated to providing Creative Arts Therapy and related arts programs to people with special needs (New York).
  
• - Center for Accessible Technology offers art programs to adults and children with disabilities. (California)
  
• - Programs, services, accessible theatre listings, newsletter and resources provided or created by the VSA arts affiliate in Minnesota
  
• - Watercolour paintings, tutor tips, news and photo album. Frome, Somerset, England
  
• - News and calendars of accessible arts events in Arizona, including audio-described and American Sign Language interpreted performances.Links to many Arizona arts and disability sites.
  
• - Site presents the Forum's agenda, concept papers, keynote addresses, daily updates, and final recommendations.
  
• - 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.
  
• - An annual month long arts festival profiling British and International performance and visual arts by disabled and deaf artists. London
  
• - Brings meaningful and structured arts education into local educational agencies, parochial, and special schools.
  
• - New Jersey organization providing educational programs for grades K-12. Topics include Disability Awareness, Conflict Resolution and Substance Abuse Prevention.
  
• - A multifaceted and multidisciplinary festival of visual and performing arts providing opportunities to showcase artistic excellence by persons with disabilities.
  
• - Arts Access is based in Melbourne, Australia and provides access to arts and cultural activity for people who are disadvantaged, including people with a disability.
  
• - Consultancy of art initiatives and projects for people with disabilities (Netherlands)
  
• - 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.
  
• - A resource for anyone interested in Deaf Art, particularly the category defined by Deaf View/Image Art (De'VIA).
  
• - NDAF provides the latest national and international news in the field of Disability arts, contacts, services, links and artwork.
  
• - Expanding the capabilities, confidence, and quality of life for children and adults with disabilities by providing programs in music, dance, drama, creative writing, and visual art.
  
• - A Speakers Bureau and Entertainment resource featuring people who have a disability and celebrity speakers on a variety of subjects.
  
• - Studio space, art education, and exhibitions for people with disabilities. (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
  
• - Works throughout Wales to promote equal opportunities in the arts for disabled people, providing training, information and advice. (UK)
  
• - Positive images of people with disabilities in everyday-life situations and inclusive settings.
  
• - 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.
  
• - A collective of artists and performers who identify as being disabled or having a disability.
  
• - full time visual art center for people with disabilities in California
  
• - Facilitates, promotes and celebrates the active participation of Disabled and Deaf people in all aspects of the Arts, Culture and creative industries. Based in Liverpool, England
  
• - VSA is devoted to enhancing the capabilities, confidence and quality of life for individuals with disabilities through life-long learning opportunities in the arts.
  
• - The mission of Accessible Arts, Inc. is to champion the arts for children with disabilities and advocate access to the arts.
  
• - A state affiliate of VSA arts, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing the arts into the lives of people with disabilities.
  
• - A small non profit agency which every week provides safe harbor for individuals with autism who come to make art.
  
• - A non-profit visual arts center, located in downtown Oakland, California, providing creative art programs, educational and independent living training, counseling and vocational opportunities for adults who are physically, mentally and emotionally disable
  
• - Promoting the creative power in people with disabilities through education in the Arts.
  
• - We are people together, with and without disabilities in Amherst, MA. Dedicated to full participation in schools, churches, clubs, sports, the arts & leisure activities.
  
  

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