Documenting Innovations in Access: Creating an Anthology of Access in the Arts

The Access Anthology Project is a collaboration between two non-profit Artist Run Centres (ARCs) located in Toronto, ON, Tangled Art + Disability and Gallery TPW. Commissioned by Gallery TPW in 2022, the Access Anthology will document the access practices of Tangled Art + Disability through a collection of interviews, roundtables, and essays contributed by artists, arts administrators, and other collaborators who have worked with Tangled, reflecting on their experiences of access in the arts. The purpose of the Anthology is to share Tangled’s access practices as a leading disability arts organization in Canada with other ARCs, arts administrators, and artists seeking to develop their own protocols and practices around access in the arts. This project will create new intellectual property for the partner organization through the publication of the Access Anthology, increase the capacity for access in the arts and encourage organizational innovation for ARCs by creating a publication detailing some possible best practices for engaging with access in the arts, and increase Tangled Art + Disability’s community partnerships with other arts organizations such as their partner organization Gallery TPW and along with leading to other future collaborations that may emerge from the publication and dissemination of the Anthology.

Faculty Supervisor:

Esther Ignagni

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Partner:

Tangled Art + Disability

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

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