A new website has been launched which celebrates 50 years of creativity and progress in Disability Arts.
Project Chief Investigator Professor Bree Hadley said Disability Arts History Australia was a landmark digital resource documenting five decades of creativity, advocacy and cultural change led by d/Deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent artists, organisations and allies.
Professor Hadley said the site was created in collaboration with more than 100 artists, arts workers and allies and was both a record of history and a practical tool for the future.
She said users could browse five decades of Disability Arts, learn about leaders and innovations, search more than 10,800 people, organisations and works, and create tailored reports, training resources and events to support inclusion across the sector.
“The Disability Arts History Australia archive documents not only the achievements of artists, but the social and cultural change they have driven over the past five decades.
“This is a resource built with our community, on our terms, and it offers future generations the tools to understand where we’ve come from and where we can go next.”
