Arts & Disability Links
The following organizations, companies, and individuals work within the dynamic intersection of the arts, education, and disability. Find the resources and information you need to advance your career, integrate the arts, and connect with your community. If you would like your organization to be added to this list please email info@vsao.org.
Accessible Art-Making
Click here for the contact list of art disability studios in Ohio (Word Doc)
- Art on Main
- Art and Clay on Main
- Art Therapy Studio
- Artists’ Open Studio
- Athens Photographic Project
- Blue Shoe Arts
- Dancing Wheels
- Dramakinetics: performing arts for fun and function
- Dramatic Impact
- Element of Art Studio/Gallery
- Hattie Larlham: services for people with developmental disabilities
- Inner I Gallery
- Kan Du Studio
- Open Door Art Studio
- PassionWorks
- Rendville Art Works
- Visionaries & Voices
- We Care Art
Art Service Organizations
- Americans for the Arts
- Center for Arts and Culture
- Center for Emerging Visual Artists
- Dublin Arts Council
- Greater Columbus Arts Council
- National Endowment for the Arts
- Ohio Arts and Crafts Guild
- Ohio Arts Council
- Ohio Arts Presenters Network
- Ohio Citizens for the Arts
- Ohio Dance
- VSA: the international organization on arts and disability
Disability Organizations
- Ability Center of Toledo
- Arts Access - Australia
- Assistive Technology of Ohio
- ADA Ohio
- American Council of the Blind
- Audio Description Coalition
- Autism Society of Ohio
- Center of Vocational Alternatives
- Clovernook Center Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired
- Deaf Services Center, Inc.
- Disability.gov - connecting the disability community to information & opportunities
- Disability Network of Ohio - Solidarity
- Down Syndrome Association of Ohio
- Goodwill Columbus (locator)
- Hattie Larlham: services for people with developmental disabilities
- National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
- National Endowment for the Arts, Office for Accessibility
- Ohio Chapter of the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf
- Ohio Developmental Disabilities Council
- Ohio Governor’s Council on People with Disabilities
- Ohio Legal Rights Service
- Ohio Rehabilitation Services Commission
- Ohio State University Nisonger Center
- Oregon Commission for the Blind - visual impairment information
- Partners in Policymaking
- Toward Independence, Inc
- University of Mary Washington - useful links for visual impairment
- Vision and Vocational Services
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Education
- ArtsEdge
- Educational Resources for Ohio
- Ohio Alliance for Arts Education
- Ohio Coalition for the Education of Children with Disabilities
- Ohio Department of Education
- Ohio School for the Deaf
- Ohio State School for the Blind
- Special Education Teacher Resource List
- Universal Design for Learning - Center for Applied Special Technology
Support for Artists
- The Artists Fellowship
- Craft Emergency Relief Fund
- Pollock-Krasner Foundation
- Puffin Foundation Grants
- Starving Artists Law
Presenting Organizations
- Art on Wheels Inc.
- Athens Photographic Project
- Beck Center for the Arts
- Fresh A.I.R. Gallery
- John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
- Mucai Academy - dance
- Ohio Art League
- OSU Urban Arts Space
- Passion Works
- Phoenix Theatre for Children
- ROYGBIV gallery
- Visionaries & Voices
- The Wexner Center for the Arts
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Professional Advancement
- Americans for the Arts Job Bank
- Art$Work - Ohio Arts Council
- Creative Capital
- Creative Hot List
- Fine Arts Fund - Cincinnati
- START: Self-Employment Technical Assistance, Resources, & Training
- National Endowment for the Arts - Careers in the Arts Resources
Other
- Arts in Crisis
- ArtsManager.org
- Columbus Arts Marketing Association
- National Arts and Disability Center
- National Center for Creative Aging
- Norwich Consulting: practical training and innovating problem solving for human service organizations
- Ohio Association of Nonprofit Organizations
- The Foundation Center
- White House.gov - Disability Policy
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