Disability Arts History Australia

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• "Arts Project Australia - Video Doctor Exhibition 2013 - Program"
  Arts Project Australia - Video Doctor Exhibition 2013 - Program - reads, in part "Many of the artists assembled for Video Doctor grew up in the late 1970s and 1980s, a time when Hollywood began to work closely with video game manufacturers."
• "Arts Project Australia - Walking The Line Exhibition 2013 - Promotional Card"
  Arts Project Australia - Walking The Line Exhibition 2013 - Promotional Card - reads, in part "Often the starting point for artists, the use of line is perhaps one of the simplest and most immediate means of communicating an idea."
• "Tutti Arts - Mix Up World Exhibition - Promotional Flyer"
  Tutti Arts 'Mix Up World' Exhibition 2015 Promotional Flyer - reads, in part "AN EXHIBITION of comic landscapes and new media art works by a group of artists with learning disability. working in the Tutti Studio."
• "Tutti Arts - Extensions - Exhibition - Promotional Flyer"
  Tutti Arts 'Extensions' Exhibition 2009 Promotional Flyer - reads, in part "Tutti Visual Arts and Design supports artists with intellectual disabilities to practice their art."
• "Arts Project Australia - Direct Line Exhibition 1994 - Promotional Flyer"
  Arts Project Australia - Direct Line Exhibition 1994 - Promotional Flyer - reads, in part "Arts Project Australia in conjunction with Down Syndrome Association of Victoria is pleased to invite you to -- direct line -- An exhibition of work by artists with Down Syndrome to celebrate Down Syndrome Awareness Week 1994"
• “Tutti Arts - Blind Date - Promotional Flyer”
  Tutti Arts ‘Blind Date’ 2008 Promotional Flyer - reads, in part “'An eye-opening cabaret performance by five VIPs' (Vision Impaired Persons)”
• "Tutti Arts - Blind Date - Program"
  Tutti Arts ‘Blind Date’ 2008 Program - reads, in part “'An eye-opening cabaret performance by five VIPs' (Vision Impaired Persons)”
• "Arts Project Australia - Collins Place PopUp - Email Promotional Flyer 30 July 2016"
  Arts Project Australia - Collins Place PopUp - Email Promotional Flyer 30 Julye 2016 - reads, in part "Arts Project presents 34 artists in a series of curated exhibitions at the pop-up gallery."
• "Access2Arts Project Archive"
  Access2Arts programs as at 2022
• "Interview with Digby Webster"
  Digby Webster is a visual artist working with the mediums of oil pastels and acrylics and is also a performer, designer and co-founding member of past performance ensemble Ruckus Ensemble. Interview Summary Digby Webster is an artist with a wide range of creative talents, including theater, dance, animation, and mural painting. He has worked on various projects, including an animated short film called "Blockhead and Sparkles," and has had his artwork displayed in places like the Sydney Olympic Park and Vivid Sydney. Digby does not define himself by his disability and takes pride in the various creative endeavors he's involved in, aiming to have his art reach people in meaningful ways outside traditional galleries. In the future, he is interested in exploring fashion, designing artwork for clothing, and he hopes to see more people wearing his art.
• "The Arts and Disability No Date #1"
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• "The Arts and Disability 2016-2017"
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• "Access Arts - News and Events"
  Access Arts News and Events, captured March 2022, including Access Arts Achievement Award Winner, Access Arts Achievement Awards 2021 Applications Open, Visitors and Earth Footprints Exhibitions, Undercover Artist Festival Program, and SYNC Leadership Program.
• "Australia Council - Annual Report 1980-81"
  Australia Council Annual Report 1980-81 - discusses members of council, standing committees and board reports as well as financial statements, grants lists, publications and programs particularly focused on the 1981 International Year of the Disabled Person (IYDP) including accessibility, integration and raising awareness of barriers of disability in arts, with funding for research, art exhibitions, theatre, film (“Stepping Out”), dance (“Life, Images and Reflections”), craft, and literature; conference, seminar celebrating IYDP.
• "Tutti Arts - Website - History, captured 2007"
  Tutti Arts Website History captured 2007 - reads, in part "Led by Pat Rix, SA’s recently announced Local Hero for her work as founder and leader of Tutti in the Australian of the Year Awards, Tutti Ensemble Inc is a successful arts and educational organisation for people with a disability, their families and the wider community now into its 10th year. Inspired by the musical term tutti - meaning everyone will now perform together after only a few have been allowed to play, Pat began Tutti as a singing group of nine people with an intellectual disability in 1997 at Minda Inc. That original group has now grown into a music community of well over 150 people. Tutti became incorporated as the Tutti Ensemble Inc, a not for profit organisation with charitable status, in 2001."
• "Interview with Alison Bennett"
  Dr Alison Bennett is a senior lecturer in photography at RMIT School of Art specialising in expanded photography, webXR, queer and feminist creative practices. Interview Summary Alison Bennett, an artist and academic, spoke about her work in expanded photography, their experiences with autism, and the intersection of disability discourse with queer activism in their life and work. Their current project, vegetal/digital, arose from their experiences during the pandemic and connects audiences with plant sentience through interactive digital art. Alison also discussed the political nature of their work, aiming to shift ontological frameworks and exploring new modes of engagement through art. They reflected on the significant cultural changes regarding neurodiversity in the last few decades, highlighting the growing self-advocacy among autistic artists and their increasing impact in the arts.
• “Arts Access Victoria – Annual Report 2000-01”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Access Newsletter Winter 1997”
• "Arts Project Australia - Annual Report 1991"
  Arts Project Australia - Annual Report 1991 - includes Aims and Objectives, President's Report, Program Director's Report, 1991 Exhibition Report, Scenes from the Studio Workshop, Financial Reports, Acknowledgements and Thanks - reads, in part "Arts Project Australia began in 1974 as an arts based advocacy group for people with intellectual disabilities. A major reason for the formation of "the Art Project" (as it was then known) was the insight on the part of its members that many people who have an intellectual disability displayed aptitude and talent in the visual arts, and that the flexible conventions of these arts forms could provide access to a variety of means of expression and communication, even when more common forms, particularly linguistic, were difficult for them to utilise."
• "Tutti Arts - Eye Music - Press Release"
  Tutti Arts 'Eye Music' 2014 Press Release - reads, in part “The Tutti Production EYE MUSIC is an inspirational piece of music theatre about Jem Hartgen who accessed the services of Novita for many years, and who was also a member of the Tutti Performing Arts Program and the renowned Tutti Choir”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc. - Access Newsletter September 1989”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc. - Access Newsletter December 1990”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc. - Access Newsletter June 1990”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc. - Access Newsletter December 1991”
• “Arts Access Victoria - Arts Access Society Inc. - Access Newsletter June 1988”