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The following is an excerpt from Leah Sandals’ Canadian Art feature \u00ab\u00a08 Things Everyone Needs to Know About Art and Disability<\/a>\u00a0\u00bb in conversation with\u00a0Eliza Chandler, Artistic Director of Tangled Art + Disability:<\/em><\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0Though it often goes unnoticed by the wider artworld, the Deaf and Disability Arts movement has been gaining momentum across Canada of late.<\/p>\n […] in April is Canada\u2019s first national Deaf and Disability Arts symposium<\/strong>\u2014titled Cripping the Arts<\/strong>\u2014which will be taking place at Toronto\u2019s Ryerson University. Cripping the Arts also coincides with the official opening of Ontario\u2019s first fully accessible gallery dedicated to exhibiting Disability and Deaf Art at 401 Richmond in Toronto.<\/p>\n The latter two milestones\u2014the symposium and the gallery\u2014are major projects on the go for Eliza Chandler, artistic director of the non-profit Tangled Art + Disability<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Recently, Chandler\u2014an alumna of NSCAD University\u2014met with Canadian Art<\/strong> to discuss art, disability and the progress that still needs to be made. Here are seven points that stood out during our conversation.<\/p>\n 1. Disabled people aren\u2019t just audiences\u2014they are artists and creators, too.<\/strong> \u201cTypically when galleries and theatres think about including disabled people, it is as an audience,\u201d Chandler says. \u201cThinking about how to have wheelchair users in your audience is different than thinking about how we might include disabled people as producers of culture\u2014as performers and artists and musicians.\u201d<\/p>\n Chandler notes that, on the upside, there is increasing interest from museums and other organizations about improving accessibility\u2014but it needs that crucial shift in perspective.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile there is this big push to make things accessible, I think it is quite focused on audience more than artwork.\u201d (click for full article<\/a>)<\/p>\n For more resources, tools, guides and articles like this, please visit the\u00a0ArtBridges’ Resource Portal<\/a>.<\/p>\n -posted with permission from Leah Sandals, Canadian Art<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The following is an excerpt from Leah Sandals’ Canadian Art feature \u00ab\u00a08 Things Everyone Needs to Know About Art and Disability\u00a0\u00bb in conversation with\u00a0Eliza Chandler, Artistic Director of Tangled Art + Disability: \u00ab\u00a0Though it often goes unnoticed by the wider artworld, the Deaf and Disability Arts movement has been gaining<\/p>\n
\nWhen asked what still bothers her most about the way disability is treated in the wider artworld, Chandler says it\u2019s the idea that improving accessibility only relates to disabled people as audiences.<\/p>\n