Calgary – The Calgary-based disability arts organization has announced its first $ 12 million plan in North America. The National Access Arts Center wants to turn an old Scout Canada building in the northwestern community of Westmount into a facility with an art gallery, studio, performance space and outdoor plaza. The center’s president, John Fukuryu, says it will all benefit artists with physical and ...
Em Kettner in her exhibition “Slow Poke,” 2021, at François Ghebaly, Los Angeles. Courtesy the artist. Em Kettner’s new figurative sculptures are rooted in her experience with muscular dystrophy and take up smallness and fragility in manners that are charming, fun, and decidedly not pathetic. Kettner focuses on themes like religion, sex, and the history of disabled people entertaining others with their extraordinary bodies ...
By: PTI | Washington | December 6, 2020 5:10:17 pm An international panel of eight judges declared 50 winners from 24 countries using the online platform of VOSAP. (Photo: Pixabay)A US-based global NGO run by an Indian-American has launched a virtual art gallery on the theme of disability that aims at colouring the world with the inclusion of specially-abled people through the creative expression ...
A US-based global NGO run by an Indian-American has launched a virtual art gallery on the theme of disability that aims at colouring the world with inclusion of specially-abled people through the creative expression of artwork. The launch of virtual art gallery by Voice of Specially Abled People (VOSAP) on Saturday follows the successful “VOSAP Art From Heart Contest”, which was participated by more ...
The Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation have joined forces to create a major fund for disabled artists and activists. Titled the Disability Future Fellows, it will award $50,000 grants to 20 visual artists, filmmakers, writers and performers, each of whom will use the money to support an ongoing project. The fellowships, designed by artists and administered by United States Artists, are ...
