Disability Arts History Australia

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• “The national tour of the exhibition BodySuits results in commissions and new opportunities for artists”
  A visual arts exhibition, BodySuits, toured nationally between 1997 and 1999. It was curated by Jane Trengove. This resulted in commissions and new opportunities for artists. Arts Access Victoria published a catalogue for the exhibition in 1997; the exhibition showed in Melbourne from 5 July - 2 August 1997 at 200 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy (a location now known as Gertrude Contemporary).
• Katya Petetskaya
• "Access Arts Moving Matters Workshops"
  Access Arts Moving Matters Workshops, with Monique de Goey, flyer reads "These workshops are designed to develop body awareness, creativity, self expression, imagination and play through participation in visual arts and movement based activities."
• “Off The List Records (VIC) established in 2020”
  Off The List Records (VIC) was established in 2020. Their Facebook page describes them as “an access-friendly and disability-led record label, working within the DIY, experimental and indie music scenes in and around Naarm.”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Access Newsletter Spring 1996”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Access Newsletter December 1998”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Access Newsletter October 1998”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Access Newsletter Winter 1999”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Access Newsletter Winter 2000”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Access Newsletter Summer 2001”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Access Newsletter Winter 2001”
• "Arts Project Australia - Outline - News - 1996 Sum - Iss2"
  Arts Project Australia - Outline - News - 1996 Sum - Iss2 - reads, in part "Christmas provides us with a time for reflection, a chance to po der progress and plan for the coming ytearr. In doing so, it brings to mind all all the members, staff, management committee, volunteers, funding bodies and supporters who have made such valuable contributions to the oganisation and without whose help many successes could not have been achieved."
• "Fayden D'Evie (2022) From Dust to Dust: Hallucinating the Absent Exhibition, in Amanda Cachia ed. Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation. London: Routledge, 87-98"
  Reads, in part "Over several months in 2018, I developed a hybrid artist-curatorial project for the Old Castlemaine Gaol, with the working title From Dust to Dust , which sought to invert the site’s association with the sensorial policing of bodies."
• State Library of New South Wales
• “Crossroad Arts (Queensland) founded in 1996”
  Crossroad Arts (Queensland) was founded in 1996 by Steve Mayer-Miller. "Crossroad Arts collaboratively develops opportunities for people who experience a disability, to access and participate in the arts".
• Ana Nguyen
• "SENSORIA: Access & Agency. ArtLink Magazine Issue 42.2, Spring 2022."
  Reads, in part "This issue platforms a range of contemporary art practices and debates written by and with artists who identify as part of the disabled, d/Deaf, vision impaired or neurodiverse communities. The commissioned essays, profiles and conversations offer diverse perspectives of lived experience and (in)visibility in the art worlds of Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and the UK."
• "New works by Nathaniel Edington and Too Many Legs by Bryan Tingey and Freight by DADAA"
  Flyer reads "You are invited to the launch of new works by Nathanael Edginton," and "Adelaide artist Bryan Tingey presents a new body of work that exhibits the varied influences of philosophy, history and psychology informing his work and his experimentation with the artforms of graffiti and , iconography and hieroglyphics. Freight is the latest shipment of outsider art on the move from WA. The exhibition showcases the work of three Western Australian artists working in textiles, photography and digital media."
• Jess Kapuscinski-Evans
• Ruth Rentschler
• "Incite Arts - Somebody Everybody - Program"
  Program for InCite Arts ‘Somebody Everybody’, reads, in part, “'Somebody Everybody” began as an exploration of ‘home’ in response to the artists missing their families and homes while living away during school time. This theme inspired us to explore personal stories of loss and grief, particularly in relation to family members and loved ones who have passed on. The work then expanded on the theme of ‘loss’ to explore all sorts of lost things including loved ones, pets and memories and the sorts of things we all lose at some point in our lives; hair, money, patience, the-way-home.”
• "Tutti Arts - The History of Autism - Promotional Card"
  Tutti Arts 'History of Autism' 2014 Promotional Card - reads, in part "In the Adelaide Fringe this year, Company@ Autistic Theatre, Australia's only theatre company for people on the autism spectrum, is presenting an exciting original work, History of Autism. Developed with actors on the autism spectrum, History of Autism was first performed at the 2013 Asia Pacific Autism Conference to standing ovations, drawing audience comments like "truly dynamic and highly entertaining" and "Chockablock full of endearing characters". Company@ is dedicated to presenting high quality authentic theatre which entertains and informs audiences and raises awareness about autism. Company@ works in partnership with renowned multi arts organisation Tutti Ensemble Inc. and is also proudly supported by Autism SA."
• "Arts Project Australia - Annual Report 1997"
  Arts Project Australia - Annual Report 1997 - Management Committee, Aims and Objectives, President's Report, Director's Report, Studio Workshop Program, Exhibitions, Financial Statements Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Statement, Income and Expenditure Summary, Statement of Cash Flows, Notes to Statement of Cash Flows, Notes to and Forming Part of the Financial Accounts, Statement to Members, Audit Statement to Members - reads, in part "Arts Project Australia, had its beginnings in 1974. But it was not until 1984 that our first studio workshop was establish.ed, with the aid of a grant from the Commonwealth Schools Commission. Since 1984 the studio workshop programme has physically developed in fairly well-defined cycles of five to six years. Up until 1986 the programme operated in hard to find halls tucked in behind houses or a convent building."
• "Australia Council - Annual Report 2006-07"
  Australia Council Annual Report 2006-07 - discusses letter from chairman, year in review, from the CEO, Excellent and Distinctive Art from various artforms, Access for all Australians from various artforms, A strong and vibrant arts sector including artist’s earnings, philanthropic support and arts sector development, About the Australia Council, Governance, Organisation, Accountability, Workplace and Financial statements but no longer listing grants of organisations or individuals however discusses the DADAA WA – Lost Generation Project where a five year project intends to have more than 360 people with intellectual disabilities create self-portraits on film – one of the outcomes of DADAA WA receiving $104,775 in 2006-07 as a key organisation of the community partnerships section.
• "The Australian Council for the Arts established in 1968"
  The Australian Council for the Arts was established in 1968. This came after a push during the late 1960s for better support of the arts in Australia. The Council replaced the Elizabethan Trust as Australia’s main arts body, although the Trust continued to receive funding from State governments. The Council was later given statutory authority in 1975 and called Australia Council. Prime Minister Gough Whitlam is recognised as a key political supporter of the arts. The election of Whitlam (serving from December 1972 to November 1975) gave unprecedented and considerable attention and funding to an arts policy which would establish an Australian cultural identity raising international awareness. The Australian Council for the Arts received an unprecedented $14 million in funding in the 1973/74 budget. This was “more than double the allocation the bodies out of which it evolved had received the year before. The Council’s allocation was increased by a further 50 per cent in the 1974/75 Budget."