Disability Arts History Australia

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• "Access Arts - Grants"
  Website reads "Access Arts can help you make the first, or next step through one of our grant funding opportunities. Provided with support and in partnership with other arts organisations, our grants and awards fund the development opportunities, guidance, and exposure artists with disability or disadvantage need to pursue their artistic practice."
• "Access Arts -Our Artists"
  Website reads "Access Arts’ talented visual artists work across a range of mediums such as painting, photography, drawing, collage and mosaic."
• "Crossroad Arts - Outreach - captured 2024"
  Crossroad Arts - Outreach, captured 2025 - reads, in part "Our Outreach Program is committed to working with regional and remote communities, giving them access to the arts."
• "Crossroad Arts Annual Reports 2005 - 2014"
  Crossroad Arts Annual Reports 2005 - 2014
• "Crossroad Arts Website 2021"
  Crossroad Arts Website, captured 2021. Includes home, employment, about us, programs, blog, partners, videos, outreach, contact us, and support us links, and information about “what we do,” “how we do it,” who we work with,” and “why we do it,” with the latter stating “We want to challenge the traditional spaces where art making takes place; and to challenge the notion of who participates in that process and how they participate.”
• "Crossroad Arts Production History 1997-2006"
  Crossroad Arts Production History 1997-2006
• "Crossroad Arts Program Hole in My Shoe 2004"
  CrCrossroad Arts program images - Hole in My Shoe 2004
• "Australia Council - Awards - National Arts and Disability Awards 2019-2021"
  The website reads “The Australia Council National Arts and Disability Awards 2019-21 celebrate the work and achievements of both established and young artists, and the significant contribution of artists with disability to the vibrancy of Australian arts”
• "Tutti Arts - Website - Online Gallery, captured 2023"
  Tutti Arts Website Online Gallery captured 2023 - Mavericks & Biscuits, Electric Mash, Works for Sale, Fantasy Estate, Greatest Hits, Wild, Salt & Sand by Jackie Saunders, The Black & White Project, Kit Jury: World of Life
• "Arts Project Australia - Artist Videos, captured 2022"
  Arts Project Australia - Artist videos - reads, in part "Featuring behind the scenes footage of Arts Project Australia artists in conversation with some of Australia's leading artists and arts professionals."
• "Arts Project Australia - Collections, captured 2022"
  Arts Project Australia - Collections - reads, in part "Arts Project Australia has developed five distinct and strongly related collections, including our: Online Shop Art Collection, Stockroom Art Collection, Sidney Myer Fund Permanent Collection (SMF), Arts Project Australia Permanent Collection and the Arts Project Australia Archival Collection."
• "Access2Arts (Arts in Action) Previous Projects archive as first added to website in 2004"
  Access to Arts (Arts in Action) Previous Projects archive as first added to website in 2004
• "Access2Arts Artist Space artist development program as first added to website 2016"
  Access2Arts Artist Space, 4 March 2016.Includes information about Access2Arts "Artist development program creates activity and opportunities to support and stimulate Deaf and disabled artists’ professional practice and develop arts projects that explore new territory. Access2Arts supports emerging and professional artists in the following areas: Contemporary arts practice; Deaf arts and disability arts; Professional skills development; One-on-one artist consultations; Innovative arts projects; Information, forums, training; Auspicing services"
• “Melbourne venue guides published in the 1990s”
  Arts Access Victoria published the ‘Melbourne Venue Guide: A Description of Access for People with Disabilities to Some of Melbourne's Major Entertainment Venues’ in 1992. They published an updated guide in 1998: ‘The Vic Venue Guide: A Guide to Access and Facilities at Over 75 Victorian Entertainment, Sporting and Cultural Venues’. This updated guide was produced in conjunction with VicHealth and supported by Arts Victoria. The guide provided information about where to make bookings, parking and public transport, facilities and access for disabled patrons, and seating.
• "A contemporary visual arts exhibition, Connected 2008, is presented in 2008"
  In 2008, Arts Access Victoria produced Connected 2008, a contemporary visual arts exhibition attracting over 400 entries from artists with a disability across Victoria.
• “Access Arts establishes the SAFE Grant”
  In 2007, Access Arts established the SAFE Grant – Sacred Angel Funding Empowerment. It is a one-off grant for $1,000 to “emerging and professional artists with disability living in Queensland. It is designed to fund the costs (up to $1,000) of attending conferences, training courses, events or mentoring to help enhance an artist’s professional career.” The SAFE grant was established by Peter Vance, whose wife Marilyn passed away from angiosarcoma. In 2019, Choice, Passion, Life (CPL) “committed to upholding the legacy of Peter and Marilyn for an additional 10 years”.
• “The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is launched”
  Following the spike in interest in the mid to late 2000s, significant steps were made towards the development of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). It came about as the result of discussions about alternatives of disability support arrangements from 2007 to 2011. This included National Disability Strategy 2010–2020. A trial phrase of the NDIS was launched in 2013, and the scheme was rolled out across the country from July 2016. The 2022 change of government, which saw the Labor party voted in for the first time in nine years, reflected voter concern for climate change and social policies. The new prime minister Anthony Albanese ordered an independent review of the NDIS. The NDIS Review report was published in 2023 and had a number of recommendations, including affording funding based on functional impairment rather than diagnosis, increasing support for children, a requirement that all providers be registered, and state governments providing supports through other services for people who do not meet NDIS criteria.
• "Sarah Austin, Chris Brophy, Lachlan MacDowell, Edward Paterson, and Winsome Roberts (2015) Beyond Access: The Creative Case for Inclusive Arts. Melbourne: Arts Victoria."
  Reads, in part "Beyond Access sought to create an evidence base for the creative case for inclusive arts practice to support greater recognition for artists with a disability by transforming and extending notions of what art is and who produces it."
• "Ayse Collins, Ruth Rentschler, Karen Williams, Fara Azmat (2022) Exploring barriers to social inclusion for disabled people: perspectives from the performing arts. Journal of Management & Organization. 2022;28(2):308-328. doi:10.1017/jmo.2021.48"
  Reads, in part "We answer the following research question: What are the barriers to social inclusion for disabled people in the arts?"
• "Una Rey (2022) Art and sensoria: Whose disability? ArtLink, 42(2), pp.8–11."
  "SENSORIA: Access & Agency is ArtLink’s effort to affect this swell by providing a platform for divergent perspectives and nuanced articulations of being an artist. Whatever the prevailing conditions. It also invites a discussion within contemporary art discourse that is not driven by fear (of getting it wrong, of ‘the other’, of adding injury to trauma). Art is our place of intersectionality: if you’re reading ArtLink, you’re already on the margins, and quite possibly on the spectrum."
• "Australia Council (1999) Access All Areas: Guidelines for Marketing the Arts to People with Disabilities. https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20080720180431/http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/publications/disability_and_the_arts/access_all_areas_guidelines_for_marketing_the_arts_to_people_with_disabilities"
  Australia Council 'Access all areas: guidelines for marketing the arts to people with disabilities' 1999 - reads, in part "Access all areas: guidelines for marketing the arts to people with disabilities For most people, the decision to be exposed to the experience of an arts event is a simple one. You go, because you choose to go. Providing that choice to people with disabilities is the issue of Access all areas. This guide is intended to be practical, covering actions which are within reach of arts organisations, especially marketing officers and their departments. How to identify this audience, how to reach them and how to provide what they want is the key advice contained in Access all areas."
• “Arts Access Australia CEO encourages other non-disabled CEOs of disability organisations to step down”
  In 2012, Kate Larsen stepped down from role as CEO of Arts Access Australia. In a Ramp Up article, she explained “Now, I love my job. I'm good at it. I think that I've been useful here. But on the same day I accepted the position last February I also did something else. I gave notice of my resignation, and undertook to hand over the organisation by the end of 2012. The reason? Because I believe that Arts Access Australia should be led by a person with disability.” Upon her resignation, she encouraged other non-disabled CEOs of disability organisations to step aside to make space for disabled people to take up these leadership roles.
• Diane Zacanovsky
• Gary Hobbs
• Julie Bamblett