They are taking your input for this survey for just a little longer…please let these folks know how you would like to see our community responding to being more inclusive around including people who live with disabilities in every aspect.
Artists, Educators, Arts Organizations, Community Members, Parents, Siblings, your input is needed!
Photo: A New Kind of Listening
Arts Access NC is conducting a statewide survey of needs and excellence
related to arts for people with disabilities. Please take the survey and
help support the arts for people with disabilities in North Carolina. There
are two versions of the survey, one for people with disabilities and family
members and one for art teachers and provider agency staff.
Survey for People with Disabilities and Their Families:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Z7DW5LZ
Survey for Arts Educators and Agency Staff:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZVNS3YN
You may also request a hard copy to be mailed to you or we can also give
you the survey over the phone. Call 919-271-3001.
More about the Survey
In partnership with VSA Arts and the NC Arts Council, Arts Access seeks to
develop a statewide arts and disability network to promote opportunities for
people with disabilities to experience quality arts education, community
cultural activities and nurture individual artistic talent. Information from
the survey will be used to develop programming, educator training, and
future grant opportunities. VSA Arts (formerly Very Special Arts) partnered
with North Carolina during the 1980’s and 1990’s as an official
affiliate but has been dormant since that time. This assessment will
determine the interest in reviving that partnership.
The project coordinator is Betsy Jones Ludwig. There will be a written
survey, interviews and focus groups around the state. Please contact Betsy
if you would like to participate. Phone: 919-271-3001, email:
Betsy@artsaccessinc.org
Arts Access NC
Arts Access is a volunteer group founded in Raleigh in 1982 that began
offering services state wide in 2008. Arts Access provides:
· Workshops, technical assistance, and consultations on how to develop ADA
accessibility plans for programs and facilities.
· Disability awareness training for arts organizations
· Audio Describers to Triangle theaters at select performances so that
patrons who are blind or have low vision can “see” a play
Our Partners
VSA Arts is an international non profit organization founded by Jean
Kennedy Smith, to create a society where people with disabilities learn
through participation and enjoyment in the arts. North Carolina Arts Council
was created to strengthen North Carolina’s creativity, invention, and
prosperity. It operates today as an agency of the North Carolina Department
of Cultural Resources, the nation’s first cabinet level state agency for the
arts, history, and libraries.
