Resources: Adaptive Art Supplies

Adaptive Art Techniques

What is Art?, Who Shapes Art?, Where is Art?
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Children's Art Online Exhibit: 'How Does Art Shape Your World?'

A Wealth of Resources for Teachers and Parents:

Web Sites Relating to the Scavenger Art Questions
Helpful Arts and Education Web sites
Meet an Artist
Adaptive Art Techniques
Book Nook
Additional Resources
Disability Awareness Guide

Programs:

ZotArtz: Arts for All Program
10 South 5th St.
PO BOX 767
Bayfield, WI 54814
(877) 851-2103
(877) 851-3129 fax
email: szotarts@centurytel.net

The Arts for All Program introduces art tools designed to allow everyone to "be empowered through the arts". The medium consists of an art roller (attaches to a wheel chair or a handle to be used tabletop or on the ground), pogo paint sticks, a chalk-walk n' roll device and others. Sites are able to rent the set of tools. The uses include both group events and in classrooms. The resulting art product is typically a large mural size painting created on paper secured to a large area of floor space.

Artists Unlimited
VSA arts of Washington
Bittin Duggan, Adult Program Director
305 Harrison Street, Ste. 303
Seattle, WA 98109
(206) 443-1843 x2
email: uwctds@u.washington.edu

VSA arts of Washington features the work of adults with disABILITIES created in theVSAAW's Artists Unlimited program of workshops and visual arts classes. Located at the Harrison Street Gallery, Center House, Seattle, Center, 3rd Floor, west balcony. Hours Monday - Friday: 11 am - 5 pm; Weekends: 11 am - 6 pm. The artists of Artists Unlimited have made a fair amount of their own adaptive equipment devices, such as table easels, paint can holders, head-wands, foot-wands, mouth-wands, wooden hand adaptive devices for people who cannot grasp a pen/pencil/brush.

Exceptional Children's Foundation Art Center
3750 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Los Angeles, California 90008
213-290-2000

The Exceptional Children's Foundation Art Center offers professional arts training, studio facilities, creative arts, educational programs, rehabilitation, and vocational opportunities. Over the years, the Art Center program has become nationally recognized for the exemplary work produced by artists with developmental disabilities.

The National Institute of Art and Disabilities (NIAD)
551 23rd Street, Richmond, CA 94804
phone: 510/620-0290
fax: 510/620-0326
email: reddot@niadart.org
http://www.niadart.org/index.htm

NIAD is an innovative visual arts center serving adults with developmental and physical disabilities. Located just 6 miles north of Berkeley in Richmond, California, NIAD serves up to 50 adults each day from diverse cultural, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. The following resources were suggested: "Art & Disabilities - Establishing the Creative Art Center for People with Disabilities" - $25.00; "Freedom to Create - Philosphy and practical experiences enabling teachers to stimulate creativity" - $15.00; "Freedom to Create: Studio Set-up, Adaptations for Physically Disabled, The Studio in Action" - $35.00 (video)

Enabled Art Center
VSA arts of New Mexico
Street Address: 4904 4th N.W.
Albuquerque, NM 87107
Telephone: 505-345-2872
Fax: 505-345-2896
NM Relay Network: 1-800-659-8331
email: vsartsnm@vsartsnm.org

The Enabled Arts Center serves as a hub for VSA arts of New Mexico's statewide operations and as a demonstration site for VSA programming and artistic philosophy. The Center's daily studio arts program provides vocational and pre-vocational training in the arts for persons with and without disabilities, ages 14 and above. Services include visual, performing, technology, and literary arts instruction, apprenticeships, supported employment, performance and exhibition opportunities, career counseling, and venues for the promotion of artists' work. The Center was established in 1992 and since that time enrollment has grown from three year-round program participants to more than fifty.

The National Arts and Disability Center (NADC)
http://nadc.ucla.edu/

NDAC is the national information dissemination, technical assistance and referral center specializing in the field of arts and disability. Its resource directories, annotated bibliographies, related links and conferences serve to advance artists with disabilities and accessibility to the arts. The website lists an extensive list of art centers that provide artists with disabilities art studio space to create their work, an opportunity to exhibit their work, and a gallery to sell their work. Visit: http://nadc.ucla.edu/VisualArtsCenters.htm

Supplies:

AbleNet, Inc.
1081 Tenth Avenue, SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414-1312
800-322-0956
http://www.ablenetinc.com/

AbleNet worked in preschools and classrooms in Minnesota for many years. As teachers, they wanted products that were simple-to-use, colorful, reasonable prices, and reliable. They designed products that were specifically designed for people with the most severe disabilities, not only provide learning experiences at school, but could also help parents have fun with their children at home.

S&S Healthcare
800-566-6678
http://www.snswwide.com

In the late 1960's, Stephen became president of S&S and has continued the mail order approach developed by his father, but expanded the company's product line, which now includes games, therapy products, early learning materials and products for movement, motion and balance.

Magazines

Sammons Preston
800-323-5547 (head & foot wands)
http://www.sammonspreston.com/

Northcoast Medical
800-821-9319
http://www.ncmedical.com/

Madenta
800-852-0815
http://www.madentec.com/

Alimed
800-225-2610
http://www.alimed.com/

**Please note: Many of the vendors carry the same type of product at a different price, so it pays to shop around.

For a large number of educational resources in arts and special education: Visit theVSA arts Web Resources in Arts, Disability and Education Database. If you know of outstanding links which are not in this collection, you are invited to make your suggestions for inclusion in the database.