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- EIN 94-3321735
- 933 Parker St Ste 45 Berkeley CA 94710 USA
- http://www.integratedarts.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Arts & Culture, Arts, Culture & Humanities, Civil Rights, Disabilities, Disabled Persons Rights, Recreation & Sports, Sports
Mission: Integrated Arts' mission is to increase opportunities for people with and without disabilities to define and express themselves through creative arts.
Play drums with your mouth. Speak your mind. Defy expectations.
Build a more integrated and equal community.
The arts provide opportunities and ways for people to come together. Founded in January '98, IArts believes that experimentation and innovation in the arts can offer valuable ways for people to cross cultural boundaries.
Integrated Arts' goals are to increase and improve:
*Access to means of self-expression
*Communication between people
*Ties between mainstream and disability art communities, and
*Mainstream representation of disability culture.
"Through art we, as people with disabilities, can redefine ourselves without limitation. We can create our place in American culture in a way that terminology, ramps and traditional methods of access can never provide. " Board VP Larry Watson, former Executive Director of Berkeley Center for Independent Living.
Programs: Integrated Arts' 1999 activities enabled over 1,195 individuals to take part in the arts. Our surveys show that approximately 56% of them had a disability. IA's programs include:
*The Disability Mural* -- Change is made by many individuals. Hundreds of people are making 12-square-inch tiles that tell the story of the disability civil rights movement. Designed to memorialize the Americans with Disabilities Act, celebrate its tenth Anniversary, and honor the people and work that made, or continue to make it, a reality. Under the direction of muralists Frances Valesco and Osha Neumann.
*Rotating Gallery* --in partnership with ArtShip, Corporation on Disabilities and Telecommunication, and World Institute on Disability, is exhibiting art that celebrates disability culture in high-profile locales, with highly qualified curators.
*ArTech* -in partnership with Computer Technologies Project, will provide art-related technology training for people with disabilities. In the Berkeley arts district.
*Voices of Integrated Arts* - annual multi-arts festival. This year's theme is Design for Living, and will include a multi-media installation.
*Community-based art projects* --murals, art-ins, performances, festivals and special events, films, video/photography, art cars, performance, writing, instrument-making, theater, and web-design for users with disabilities.
*Co-founded, Co-chair: The Arts Access Network* --The AAN mission is to promote arts participation, representation, and integration by people of all abilities. Through this network, that crosses all levels of the arts community and the community-at-large, we strengthen outreach, share resources, and enhance community-based efforts. Together, we are building a foundation of communication and support that, by reducing architectural and programmatic barriers, makes the Bay area's diverse art cultures more accessible to all.
*Ongoing consultation* --with arts agencies, arts networks, and museums regarding disability access. IA co-chairs the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive's Subcommittee on Art and Disability.
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