Artists with disabilities

[pfranklin]

Example opportunity

Funding for Mindful Art
Grants for Young Artists with Disabilities (Deadline: June 19, 2009)

VSA arts, an international, non-profit organization working to help create a society where people with disabilities learn through, participate in, and enjoy the arts, and Volkswagen Group America are now accepting entries for Accelerate, a juried exhibition of young emerging artists with disabilities.


The program is open to artists between the ages of 16 and 25 who are living in the United States and who have a physical, cognitive, mental, or sensory disability.


Submissions must be original work completed within the last three years and after the onset of disability. Eligible media include, but are not limited to, paintings and drawings (oil, watercolor, acrylic, pencil, or charcoal), fine art prints, photography, computer-generated prints, digital art, and time-based media (video, film). Work must have a visual component. Both representational and abstract work are welcomed.


The competition will present one grand prize of $20,000, a first-prize award of $10,000, a second-prize award of $6,000, and twelve awards of excellence of $2,000 each. Complete entry guidelines are available at the VSA arts Web site./

More opportunies are on the VSA site.

Edit: Since I first posted this the link changed. Check this link out to find opportunities for artists with disabilities.

[Equatorial]

Phyllis, the deadline for this one is June 2009.

Anyway, there is a similar charity here, also called VSA, supporting and marketing artworks by disabled persons. Perhaps they are related.

(And by the way, I also have some disabilities, minor ones.)

[pfranklin]

Thanks EQ.

I didn't read the entire email that was forwarded to me and didn't realize this was an example only. I corrected my post.

Edit: Since I first posted this the link changed so I'm reposting. Check this link out to find opportunities for artists with disabilities many of which are on-going.

Also, if you are an artist with a disability, check to see if you are eligible to add your name to the artist registry at the vsarts site. You never know what opportunity may come from this exposure.

[Equatorial]

It is a long list.