Artistic Impact: From Casual and Serious Leisure to Professional Career Development in Disability Arts

Darcy, Simon; Maxwell, Hazel; Grabowski, Simone; Onyx, Jenny

doi:10.1080/01490400.2019.1613461

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“…There is a growing view by disabled people in the arts that they are capable, strong, professional and pursuing a career, rather than undertaking therapy, as was once the dominant view (Solvang, 2018). Nonetheless, despite the potential for arts programmes to benefit disabled people and instigate social change in the wider community, arts programmes for disabled people are still not ‘taken seriously in terms of their artistic outputs and merits’ (Darcy, Maxwell, Grabowski, & Onyx, 2019, p. 1). Attitudes to work by disabled artists were evident in our interviews with performing artists, particularly when they did not want to be known as disabled artists.…”

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Exploring barriers to social inclusion for disabled people: perspectives from the performing arts

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Williams

et al. 2021

Journal of Management & Organization

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Although the potential of arts to promote social inclusion is recognised, barriers to social inclusion for disabled people in the arts is under-researched. Based on 34 semi-structured interviews with disabled people and those without disability from four arts organisations in Australia, the paper identifies barriers for social inclusion for disabled people within performing arts across four dimensions: access; participation; representation and empowerment. Findings highlight barriers are societal, being created with little awareness of needs of disabled people, supporting the social model of disability. Findings have implications beyond social inclusion of disabled people within the arts, demonstrating how the arts can empower disabled people and enable them to access, participate and represent themselves and have a voice. Our framework conceptualises these four barriers for social inclusion for disabled people for management to change.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%