Two-year project with galleries across the UK to develop better approaches to working with disabled and deaf people. Galleries undertook staff training to develop and deliver participatory projects with local disabled and deaf people and artists, and a guide was published to help share good practice with the UK museums and galleries sector.
Organisation
Engage: The National Association for Gallery Education, London, UK.
Shape Arts, London, UK.
Role
Programme Co-ordinator.
Co-ordinating programme communications, training programmes, guiding individual project planning, delivery, budget management, reporting and evaluation. Writing and editing a publication, commissioning texts, photography and design. Planning and delivering a launch event at Tate Britain.
Collaborators
Oriel Mostyn, Wales, UK.
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK.
The new Art Gallery, Walsall, UK.
SPACE, London, UK.
Four Corners, London, UK.
Compton Verney, West Midlands, UK.
Oriel Wrecsam, Wales, UK.
Oriel Davies, Wales, UK.
Disabled and Deaf artists.
Disability equality trainers.
Evaluation consultants.
Disabled and Deaf Artists
Disability Equality trainer, Wendy Rose.
Michèle Taylor, disability and Equality Consultant.
François Matarasso and Rebecca Lee, Evaluation Consultants
Outcomes
Arts professionals developing awareness, knowledge and action plans to improve access to galleries for disabled and deaf people.
Galleries making improvements to buildings, facilities, communications, attitudes and policies.
Gallery staff and artists developing professional networks across the UK.
Funding
The Sir Jules Thorne Charitable Trust
Link
https://engage.org/resources/explore-handbook/
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