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Call for entry Disability Art Exhibit

Call for Art by Santa Monica Disabilities Commission

The Santa Monica Disabilities Commission is currently seeking 2-dimensional art work (drawing, painting and printed work) created by people who...
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Featured Bloggers

Open call for writers, reviewers, artists, poets, songwriters, and photographers

Disarts.org wants to feature new voices and dynamic content from the local Bay Area disability community. We are interested in...
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Exhibit Museums

Haptic Encounters with Georgina Kleege

One of the many welcome features of the Jewish Folktales Retold exhibition at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco are...
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Disability Art Gift Guide News Resource

2017 Bay Area Disability Arts Holiday Gift Guide

With December and the New Year drawing near and Kislev off to a good start, the season of gift guides...
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Art Auction

Artful Steps Annual Art Auction, San Leandro

Don't miss the 17th Annual Art Auction by the Artful Steps program in San Leandro. Many of the artists create wonderful...
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Op-Ed Publishing & literature Theater

I Will Never Pay to See The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Once more with feeling: I will never  pay to see The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Even if money...
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Dance Disability Art Performance

Remembering artist and dancer Lisa Buffano

As the anniversary of the death of artist and dancer Lisa Bufano is upon us, I wanted to highlight her brilliant...
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Disability Art News Phototgraphy Talks Video

Tusler talks photography and disability

You can tell from this portrait of Anthony Tusler as a young man in his wheelchair that he has always...
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Dance Disability Art

Axis Dance Report on the Future of Dance

photo description: Title page, The Future of Physically Integrated Dance in the USA showing six energetic, disabled dancers, two wheelchairs...
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Disabled Artist News

Poet Yu Xiuhua

The New York Times had an interesting, and mostly respectful, story of one of China's leading poets, Yu Xiuhua. She...
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Publishing & literature

Reclamation Press: New disabled-centered publishing company

Reclamation Press is a new publishing company created by Elizabeth “Ibby” Grace and Corbett Joan OToole. They publish fiction and non-fiction books...
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Disability Art News

“Where all bodies are exquisite” by painter Riva Lehrer

Read a really interesting NYT op-ed piece by disabled artist Riva Lehrer that combines her art and a little about...
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News Theater

A Starring Role for Disabilities

What with the opening of autism-centered "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" the San Francisco Chronicle had...
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Disabled Artist News

Art & Technology

https://www.wsj.com/articles/blind-artist-and-engineering-students-team-up-to-create-a-unique-cane-1498442640 The Wall Street Journal has a long article about Sara Hendren at Olin College and her work on bringing...
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Exhibit

You Are Enough, June 3 & 4, 2017 at SOMArts

Happening today: You are Enough An exhibition of visual art that pushes against the stigma associated with Crazy. Through this...
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Call for entry Disability Art

Opulent Mobility 2017 Entries Open

from Laura Brody extolling artists to submit pieces to Opulent Mobility 2017: I want you to be excited and inspired...
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Museums

Park McArthur @ SF MOMA

Park McArthur writes that she has passes to see her exhibit at San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art. Just drop...
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