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Disability in the arts is an aspect within various arts disciplines of inclusive practices involving disability. It manifests itself in the output and mission of some stage and modern dance performing-arts companies, and as the subject matter of individual works of art, such as the work of specific painters and those who draw.
This was “Canada's First National Disability Arts Gathering,”, [52] ” and the theme was working together “to shift Canada’s Disability & Arts and Culture Movement discourse away from the over-represented access issues that dominate the milieu to the more pressing artistic practice issues that too many disabled artists are up against ...
Disability art is a concept which was developed out of the disability arts movement. [7] In the disability arts movement disability art stood for "art made by disabled people which reflects the experience of disability." [8] To be making disability art in the disability arts movement it is conditional on being a person with a disability.
Theatre and disability is a subject focusing on the inclusion of disability within a theatrical experience, enabling cultural and aesthetic diversity in the arts. Showing disabled bodies on stage can be to some extent understood as a political aesthetic as it challenges the predominately abled audience's expectations as well as traditional theatre conventions.
The Disability Futures Fellowship Award is a grant award offered by the Ford and Mellon Foundations to promote disabled artists. Through the Fellowship, the Ford and Mellon Foundation offers fifty thousand dollars to twenty artists every 18 months, totaling one million dollars per cohort. [1] [2]
Shameless: The ART of Disability is a documentary film by Bonnie Sherr Klein about persons with disabilities. Produced in 2006 by the National Film Board of Canada, it is Klein's first film since a catastrophic stroke in 1987 left her a quadriplegic. The film explores disability culture and the transformational power art has for people with ...
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