Recreation & Leisure Center

Painting, Drawing, and Other Art Programs

See also Art Therapy

• AbleArts — Delaware
  Our Abilities Eclipse Our Disabilities

• The Able Workshop
  Disability and woodworking, resource of photos, tips, hints, and tricks of those with a handicap who found solutions to work shop barriers.

• Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists (AMFPA)
  A worldwide association of artists that organizes a wide range of exhibitions, sells original art works and permits publishing houses to reproduce their works as art greeting cards and calendars.

• Center for the Arts in Human Development with Special Populations
  An innovative program based at Concordia University in Montreal. The Centre utilizes the creative arts therapies and applies them to promote growth and development, in people with intellectual, developmental and mental health disabilities.

• Creative Growth Art Center
  Creative Growth Art Center provides creative art programs, educational and independent living training, counseling and vocational opportunities for adults who are physically, mentally and emotionally disabled.
• Creativity Explored
  Full time visual art center for people with disabilities in California
• Famous People Players — Canada
  This theatre group is dedicated to the integration of people who are developmentally handicapped. Through its life skills program, performers are given the conviction and skills to realize the full potential of their creative abilities.

• Hands On — New York
  This service organization is dedicated to providing greater accessibility to arts and cultural events for the Deaf and hard of hearing community.

• Heart 'n Soul Music Theatre — United Kingdom
  Heart'n Soul is a dynamic arts organisation offering creative opportunities to people with learning disabilities.

• Hope University / Hi Hopes Fine-Arts Foundation
  Non-profit, fine arts facility for developmentally-disabled adults with autism, Down syndrome, etc. Offers creative-arts therapy and focused music, art, and dance programs.

• Kids on the Block, Inc.
  The purpose of The Kids on the Block is to provide educational puppet programs which enlighten all children on the issues of disability awareness, medical/educational differences, and social concerns. By extensively researching and developing relevant and timely topics, The Kids on the Block addresses a wide range of issues that affect today's children.

• National Forum on Careers in the Arts for People with Disabilities
  Site presents the Forum's agenda, concept papers, keynote addresses, daily updates, and final recommendations.

• National Arts and Disability Center
  Promotes the full inclusion of children and adults with disabilities into the visual, performing, media, and literary arts communities.

• National Disability Arts Forum — United Kingdom
  To support arts organisations that have become more accessible and to encourage disabled people to participate more in the arts, the National Disability Arts Forum has established ARTS ACCESS UK, an online searchable access guide to arts venues throughout the country.

• National Institute of Art and Disabilities (NIAD)
  The mission is to provide an art program for people with developmental disabilities which promotes creative expression, independence, dignity and community integration.

• National Theatre of the Deaf
  Through NTD's signature style of visual language, American Sign Language, the audience enjoys a greater appreciation that no other theatre company can approach. Through its art, the NTD has created profound social change.

• Orpheus — United Kingdom
  An inclusive performing arts centre; we aim to provide opportunities for personal development through the performing arts and other learning experiences for young disabled adults with a physical impairment; so that they can make informed choices about the future and gain the skills to live more independently in the community.

• Passion Works Studio
  Passion Works Studio offers art making opportunities and employment to people with developmental disabilities, practicing artists, and volunteers. The studio is funded through the Ohio Arts Council and The Athens County Board of MR/DD.

• Richard Attenborough Centre for Disability and the Arts
  Open to all, its focus is people with disabilities and other members of the public who have previously found access to arts education difficult.

• Special Music by Special People — Illinois
  Special Music by Special People is a Chicago Park District music program for people with developmental disabilities (such as Down syndrome).
• The Studio — California
  A fine arts program for people with developmental disabilities - provides a supportive and stimulating environment where our artists can express themselves creatively using a variety of media.

• Survivors Art Foundation
  Dedicated to encourage healing through the arts, Survivors Art Foundation is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization committed to empowering trauma survivors with effective expressive outlets via internet art gallery, outreach programs, national exhibitions, publications and development of employment skills.

• Wild Swan Theatre: Dramatically Able
  An Instructional Package for Purchase that Makes Drama Accessible to Those with Disabilities

• Very Special Arts (VSA)
  An international nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the creative power in people with disabilities.