Disability Arts History Australia

Items

• Ruth Whittingham
• Gaye Walsh
• Gay Walsh
• Betty Rankin
• No Strings Attached
• No Strings Attached Theatre of Disability
• "Arts Project Australia - Publications, captured 2022"
  Arts Project Australia - Publications - Includes information about SINCERELY YOURS ZINE 2022, ART ET AL. BROADSHEET ISSUE 1 2021 (inclusive, curated international art platform that commissions and presents collaborations between artists from supported studios, artist peers and arts professionals), ANTIDOTE 2021, REACHING POTENTIAL (REPORT 2021 (including exhibition essay by Dr Marion Piper Words Make Worlds), A SENSE OF PLACE 2003 (including The Significance of Space, The Meaning of Place by Dr Cheryl Daye and Kitty Ginter), VALERIO CICCONE: PERIPHERAL OBSERVER 2012 (including Peripheral Observer catalogue essay ‘This is me – some thoughts on the art of Valerio Ciccone’ by curator Glenn Barkley pp. 8-10), VIDEO DOCTOR 2013 (including essay by Geoff Newton), SO FAR… eight artists / eight stories 2014, IT TAKES MORE THAN 140 CHARACTERS TO WRITE A NOVEL (2015 (Including exhibition essay by curator Dr Vincent Alessi), AUTO BODY WORKS 2018, FEM-aFFINITY 2019 (including FEM-aFFINITY catalogue essay If Collaboration is the Method, Activism is the Intention by curator Dr Catherine Bell pp. 19-24), POP UP STALL: The Festival of the Photocopier Zine Fair
• "The Australia Council establishes the Community Arts Committee in 1973 and the Community Arts Board in 1978"
  The Australia Council established the Community Arts Committee in 1973 and the Community Arts Board in 1978. The purpose of the latter was to encourage wider participation in the arts, especially for groups with little social capital. The Board was “the first funding body to identify the community arts phenomenon and respond with definition and policy." This occurred under the directorship of Rosalie Bower, the first director of the Community Arts Board, who wrote in a paper entitled 'The Case for a Community Arts Centre': “The activities within a centre should be accessible to children, aged people, the physically handicapped, ethnic groups and those whose time is severely restricted by work and family ties. The activities supplied by the centre should be conducted free from competitive elements which otherwise might discourage people from participation, and they must be inexpensive and accessible at almost any time. They must not pre-suppose education or income levels which would cut them off from any section of the community.'" (Australia Council 1979/1980 Annual Report, page 32)
• "Australia Council for the Arts (2018) Arts and Disability a Priority as Australia Council Commits Significant New Funding. 24 September 2018."
  Reads, in part "The Australia Council has committed $750k over three years to support sustainable careers and to recognise the artistic excellence of artists with disability."
• "South Australia : disability fact pack for arts and cultural organisations - DADAA National Network and Australia Council (1998)"
  Disability fact pack for arts and cultural organisations in South Australia
• "Western Australia : disability fact pack for arts and cultural organisations - DADAA National Network and Australia Council (1998)"
  Disability fact pack for arts and cultural organisations in Western Australia
• Caroline Bowditch
• Richard Benge
• “Research project ‘Disability and the Performing Arts in Australia: The Last Avant Garde’ investigates the creative and aesthetic strategies of the Australian disability arts sector”
  A research project beginning in 2016, ‘Disability and the Performing Arts in Australia: The Last Avant Garde,’ investigated the creative and aesthetic strategies of the Australian disability arts sector. The project sought to map “disability arts practice across the nation” by examining “the role of artistic experimentation,” “co-design[ing] accessible strategies,” and raising “critical recognition, employment and funding opportunities for artists.” The project team describes themselves as a collective “of deaf and disabled and non-disabled researcher artists, performers, writers, arts managers and theatre makers.” The work was the result of a collaboration between Arts Access Victoria, University of Melbourne, and University of Sydney. The Australia Research Council provided funding for the research.
• "Australia Council - Annual Report 1999-2000"
  Australia Council Annual Report 1999-2000 - discusses letter from chair of council, corporate overview, year in review, financial statements, analysis of funding and grants for projects, programs, presentation and promotions, triennial grants to disability arts organisations in NSW, South Australia and Victoria and funding to Accessible Arts for audience development, as well as the New Media Arts Fund for Back to Back performance of “Soft”
• Supported Employment Program
• Harold (Jimmy) Fuller
• Disability Employment Service
• Sam Fenech
• Samuele Fenech
• Donald Muir
• Aidan Sefo
• "Australia Council commissions a research study on people with disabilities' participation in arts activities"
  Australia Council commissioned a research study on the problems faced by people with disabilities attempting to participate in art activities (Australia Council Annual reports 1979/1980 and 1980/1981).
• National Gallery of Australia
• Penelope Hunt