Resources
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- VSA
arts of Texas
- VSA arts of Texas is a nonprofit organization that works to make the
arts accessible to everyone.
- AbilityHub.com
- Guide to adaptive equipment, software, and alternative methods for
the disable to successfully use computer technology.
- WGBH
- Boston area public television station WGBH is working to bring media
access to television, movie theaters, and the web.
- The
National Arts and Disability Center
- NADC is a national information dissemination, technical assistance
and referral center specializing in the field of arts and disability.
- DB LINK
- A new online directory of worldwide resources for and about people
with combined vision and hearing loss.
- Disability
is Natural
- A book by Kathie Snow with revolutionary common sense for raising successful
children with disabilities.
- Imagine
Art
- Imagine Art is on a mission to increase the presence of artists with
disabilities as they pursue professional opportunities in the Austin arts
community.
- Matisse
Picasso i-Map Project
- A digital project designed for visually impaired people that aims to
explore some of the ideas, innovations and working methods of Matisse
and Picasso, two of the twentieth century's most influential artists.
- Disability
Museum
- The goal of the Disability Museum is to promote understanding about
the historical experience of people with disabilities by recovering, chronicling,
and interpreting their stories.
- Mouth Magazine
- Voice of the Disability Nation
- Ragged Edge
- A disability rights publication.
- The DisAbility Project
- Similar to Actual Lives, in St. Louis, Mo.
- the Mickee Faust Club
- Terry Galloway's Performance Company in Tallahassee, Florida.
- VSA arts
- VSA arts is an affiliate of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts.
For a longer discussion about Actual Lives, see "Actual
Lives: A Pedagogy of Difference," by Chris Strickling, in Radical
Acts: Theatre and Feminist Pedagogies of Change.
Actual Lives is one of several programs from VSA arts of Texas to bring
people with disabilities complete access to cultural, artistic, and educational
venues, programs and employment.