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People with disabilities in art

People with mental disabilities in art

Barrier-free design

Architecture--Human factors

Art and Disability

The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability. 2022. Explores disability in visual culture to uncover how bodily and cognitive differences are articulated physically and theoretically, and to demonstrate the ways in which disability is culturally constructed across historical periods and cultures.

Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts, 2022. See the chapter on A 'universal design' for audiences with disabilities.   

Disability and art history from antiquity to the twenty-first century, 2022. Analyzes representations of disability in art incorporating disability studies scholarship and art historical research and methodology

Disease and disability in medieval and early modern art and literature, 2021

Doing disability differently : an alternative handbook on architecture, dis/ability and designing for everyday life, 2014. How are disability and architecture connecte? Rather than putting disability at the end of the design process, centred on compliance, it sees disability - and ability - as creative starting points for the whole design process. Can working from dis/ability generate an alternative architectural avant-garde that opens a critical and creative investigation of everyday social attitudes and practices about people, objects and space?

INTERSECTION OF FASHION AND DISABILITY: A HISTORICAL ANALYSIS. (on order) Provides a history of contemporary awareness of inclusive fashion and how future work can be driven by technology and cultural acceptance.

Accessibility Toolkit and Supports

The Accessibility Toolkit is a guide to making art spaces accessible, created by Humber College in partnership with Tangled Art + Disability.  It offers an introduction to and recommendations for incorporating accessibility features into aspects of exhibition design, such as:

  • exhibition content
  • label design and text
  • lighting
  • image description
  • audio description
  • transcription and captioning
  • language usage
  • access symbols.

Expanding the Arts: A Guidebook for Working with Artists who are DEaf or have Disabilities (Canada Council for the Arts, 2015). Information on appropriate terminology, tips, best practices and protocols compiled from a variety of sources.  

Deaf Artists and Artists with Disabilities (Ontario Arts Council): grant programs and supports