The following represents the most current sites featuring the work of artists with disabilities. Our purpose is to highlight the talent within the disability community. The links are organized on our site by artistic discipline-- visual arts, music, performing arts, media arts/film, literary and multidisciplinary. The nature and content of the online arts and disability community is constantly growing and changing. Please email us any suggestions for additional links to our site.

Visual Arts

Art Gallery/Exhibits

Artists

Cartoonists

Music

Musicians

Performing Arts

Dance Companies/Dancers

Theatre Companies with Performers with and Without Disabilities

Performers

Media Arts/Film

Filmmakers

Films about Disability

Literary Arts

Poets and Writers

Multidisciplinary

Artists and Performers

Exhibits

Online Directories of Artists and Actors

• Adorn, equip is a unique exhibition originated by The City Gallery, Leicester, which examines issues around the design of equipment and accessories used by disabled people. This is an online version of the touring exhibition, produced by Ju Gosling during an artist's residency.
• Art Challenge is a showplace for art and artists on the world wide web. They have a contest where winners have their images posted in their galleries and potentially as "Artist of the Month".
• Art of Possibility Studios exclusively represents physically disabled  artists via license to manufacturers interested in connecting with consumers on a meaningful level and with cause oriented programs at retail.
• Art on The Net is a collection of artists helping each other to come on the Internet and share their works on the World Wide Web. Artists create and maintain studios and rooms in the gallery where they show their work.
• Circle Stories is a series of portraits of people in a variety of fields, including the arts, academia and political activism. Each has a significant physical disability, and an interest in exploring body issues in his or her own work.
• District 7 HRDC Growth Thru Artwork is a gallery of personal art work by artists with disabilities.
• Driving Force, VSA arts and Volkswagen of America, Inc, have partnered to recognize and showcase young artists with disabilities, ages 16-25 who are living in the United States. This collaboration supports these artists at a critical time; many are deciding whether to pursue the arts as a career.
• Feed the Soul, a gallery of artists with various disabilities who utilize adaptive technology to create their visual art.
• Imagine Art is on a mission to increase the presence of artists with disabilities in the Austin arts community through a network of supports that reduce financial and personal support barriers related to participation. They have an art gallery of work by Austin artists with disabilities.
• Intuit Center for Intuitive and Outside Art was established as a not-for-profit organization to recognize the work of artists who demonstrate little influence from the mainstream art world, and who instead seem motivated by their unique personal visions.
• LA Goal art gallery of personal art work by artists with disabilities.
• Little City Foundation Art Center is a regional arts center serving people with developmental disabilities. The center hosts a studio arts program, produces a cable access show, supports individual video projects, and collaborates with local performance companies.
• National Arts and Disability Center Online Artist Gallery highlights the work of artists with disabilities around the world.View the beautiful creations that express the talents of artists of all abilities.
• Neighborhood Center for the Arts online gallery contains over 600 images of artwork by their artists. Neighborhood Center for the Arts is an art center for artists with disabilities.
• Founded in 1996, Network Arts Lewisham provides a unique service within the mental health field, certainly within London, if not in the UK. It offers its members opportunities to explore their true potential. Everyone has a say in the day to day running as well as being involved in its development. NAL is not just artists, there are many members that work behind the scenes, gaining experience in administration, accounts, bookkeeping, cleaning or working on sales/marketing and publicity.
• New England Village's online art gallery is a gallery adults with mental retardation.
• Nothing to Hide is a museum-quality photo-text traveling exhibit featuring photographs and interviews with families whose lives are affected by mental illness - schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, major depression, anxiety disorders, etc.
• NTID/RIT's Deaf Artists website features over 40 Deaf and hard of hearing artists and numerous resources and materials.
• Passion Works art gallery exhibits the personal art work of artists with disabilities.
• Passion Works featured artist of the month.
• The online gallery of NIAD. The artwork created at NIAD falls within the realm of "outsider" or self-taught art. With no formal training and usually no past experience, the artists produce outstandingly original work uninfluenced by tradition or trends.
• Project Return offers a lifelong education, training, and development program for artists with mental illness. They promote the work of their artists through local art exhibitions.
• Pure Vision Arts Gallery a not-for-profit human-service agency that educates and supports New Yorkers with developmental disabilities.
• State Council on Developmental Disabilities 2006 Art Poster Contest Winners, the 2006 winners of the State Council on Developmental Disabilities Art Poster contest.
• Studio XI mission is a arts program that aims to advance the careers of artists challenged by disabilities through programming, education and advocacy, by demonstrating the strength and power of the creative spirit.
• TAAP Onling Gallery features artwork and graphic design entirely conceptualised, designed and completed by autistic artists and designers.
• The Ableworkshop Resources for Disabled Woodworkers is a gallery of work by woodworkers with a disability.
• The Studio is a fine arts program for people with developmental disabilities. They provide a supportive and stimulating environment where their artists can express themselves creatively using a variety of media.
• The Studio Online Gallery is a fine arts program for people with developmental disabilities. The Studio gives people the opportunity to express themselves through the creative arts. They show and market the artwork that is produced to instill feelings of pride and self worth.
• The Vancouver Island Society of Disabled Artists was created to show other disabled people the tools that Alistair and Garry have created and how they are use.
• The Visual Arts League web site gathers work from artists throughout the globe. This inclusive arts site offers artists and visitors the opportunity to come together to create, experiment and nurture ideas. One of the many interesting projects featured is Renaissance 2001 by Seiji Ueoka. Renaissance 2001 is an Internet Art Festival planned for the year 2001.
• Visit the Wynn Newhouse Awards webite to view the work of previous winners. This Awards program provides grants to artists of excellence
  who happen to have disabilities.

• Stephanie Andrews is a multimedia and installation artist who uses techniques of illusion and transformation to bring people into her work as active agents of perception. Her work incorporates technologies such as digital imaging, video, 3D graphics, neon, and computer-controlled kinetic systems.
• Iris Nelia Aranda is a Panamanian and a professional artist in oils, acrylics, watercolors, pastels, ink, ceramics, wood and metal sculpture, and photographs.
• Esref Armagan is a blind painter, blind from birth. His artwork has been exhibited in Turkey and abroad.
• Marlene Azoulai is a self-taught artist, living with Dissociative Identity disorder, formerly known as 'multiple personality'
• Gregory Burns' expressive color draws from the coast and his imagery has evolved from literalness to suggestion. Burns who is paralyzed as a result of polio is also an award winning Paralympian who hods four world records.
• Kevin Connolly is a photographer and professional skier from Montana.
• Hillary Cooper is a New York based fine artist specializing in portraiture and landscape. She has been selected for numerous shows, collections, editorials, and commissioned works.
• Born legally blind, with less than ten percent of normal vision, George A. Covington first achieved national media attention for his work in using photography as a seeing tool. He has taught photography workshops at various locations such as Harlem Hospital and the Smithsonian Institution.
• Amelia Davis, a san Francisco Based phtographer, studied photography at the University of California at Davis and received a BA in Studio Art from there. Amelia's photography has been in galleries, juried shows, selected group shows, magazines, text books, and is in private collection.
• Scott Duffy began painting in 1991. Although he is paralyzed he uses a splint to hold the paint brush and uses tape on the canvas to make straight lines and different shapes.
• Pete Eckert is an accomplished photographer.
• Emily Eifler's methods are compilations of many tiny movements or pieces that alone are unimportant: crochet links, repetitive photographs or video frames, pixels, stuffing fibers, pieces of plastic, bits of movement or fabric.
• Noah Erenberg is an established artist from Isla Vista, California. Erenberg has presented his work in countless art exhibitions across the country.
• The nature of James Ervin's art is that of healing, art is his key to freedom, success, pace, and harmony, it is my strength. His artistic goals are to continue healing himself thru art and also teach others.
• Robert Ferrandini is one of the most admired painters working in New England. For over twenty-five years he has been celebrated for his haunted and glorious landscapes, which incorporate imagery culled from art history, film, literature, and popular culture.
• Lisa Fittipaldi didn't start painting until after she was blind, when her husband gave her a set of children's watercolors. Fittipaldi's first work was an astounding accomplishment for an individual without any prior art background or sight. Five years later, Fittipaldi is believed to be the only blind watercolor artist in the world who paints realistically. Fittipaldi's portfolio contains a diversity of material in a magical style that maintains her signature characteristics.
• Iris Gill, art gallery exhibits expressionistic paintings, drawings, and assemblages which are inspired by the strongest emotions Ms. Gill has about her life and the world.
• Ricardo L. Gil, was one of twenty-five California artists recently honored by the California Arts Council as a recipient of a 1998-1999 Artists Fellowship. Ricardo is a dwarf, as is his wife, and they are raising their average-sized daughter. His photographs document with a frank, tender eye his perspective of the world.
• Lauren Glick works with clay, oil paints, graphite and computers as my media.
• Bruce Gray's sculptures and kinetic art have been displayed at many art galleries, museums, and countless times on TV and in films. His work includes giant objects, rolling ball machines, magnetic sculptures, abstract paintings, mobiles, art furniture, and more. He was recently commissioned for 5 of his aluminum "Paper Plane" sculptures for the main lobby of Little Rock National Airport.
• Sheila Ernst-Bifano is a fine art photographer working in black and white and alternative processes. She enjoys expressing the quiet, contemplative side of life, as her disability, a brain disorder, causes her mind to race with hectic abandon.
• Laura Ferguson's drawings go far beyond medical illustration to convey the feeling of inhabiting inner space — kinesthetic, visceral, and emotional — and the way that personal identity and even consciousness are rooted in the experiences of the body.
• Bruce Hall has been a scuba diver and underwater photographer since 1983. Macro, or close-up, photography enables Bruce, who is legally blind, to identify specific features of plant and animal life living along the southern California coastline as well as to study and to enjoy the undersea world after he has left it.
• Terry Hammon, "The Blind Photographer", since she was very young, she have been obsessed with photography. Although it is difficult to select correct focus through a 35 mm camera, she still uses manual focusing Minolta cameras. Photography has helped her to see the world around her better by forcing her to take more notice of the detail that her vision would normally miss. Often she has had to point out items that others can't find. This led her to the expression " 20/20 vision, and walking around Blind."
• William Flewellen Heard is a painter, poet, activist, and teacher from Tupelo, Mississippi.
• Michelle Lisa Herman, is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the "element of chance and the act of control" and often combines several mediums including installation work.
• Gary Hickerson, who restored Volkswagens as part of his family's repair business, transforms discarded parts into new forms of embedded with life and meaning. He composes sculpture out of actual fenders or inspired by their curvilinear form.
• Peter Hughes developed drawing abilities before he could use functional language. Art plays an integral part of his communication with others around him. For Hughes, who is autistic, the picture plane is a conversation allowing him a place to ponder events, people and subjects.
• Jazzy Jackie is an amputee artist who lost the four fingers of her left hand during a childhood accident. She now uses her amputation in a very unique and special way -- her residual finger stubs are her "tools" to create acrylic paintings.
• Well known to the Down Syndrome community, Michael Jurogue Johnson, a young man with Down Syndrome loves to paint every day. His work has been on display at national Down Syndrome conferences. He has been painting full time for 8 years and uses watercolors, acrylics, and oil paints in a cheerful, naive style.
• Jessica Keller is a self-taught California artist who works in a variety of media. Her subjects range from land and seascapes to portraits and visions of her dreams she has at night but she has a special fondness for her pieces depicting Polynesian Culture. Jessica was born with a rare form of Muscular Dystrophy called Central Core Disease which at times causes great pain and fatigue. Jessica's desire is to convey a sense of serenity and to share the beauty of Polynesia with those who view her work.
• Isabella Kirkland, employing oils and seventeenth century Dutch style, she depicts plants and animals as accurately as possible and at life-size in order to preserve at least an image of species that may not survive the next 400 years.
• Kathleen Kridler, paints portraits and figure drawings. Many of her works are drawn on collaged paper and include found objects significant to her subjects.
• Riva Lehrer realistic portraits are often mixed with surreal settings, the setting is often selected by the subject.
• Scott Ligon uses the computer to document his life with ADHD. His work has evolved from realism to an expressive figural style, and from traditional painting to digital art.
• Ted Meyer's paintings and prints have been featured in museums and galleries around the world. He has also written and illustrated 4 books.
• Ketra Oberlander, a blind artist, whio explores the tension between what's practical and what's possible.
• Susan Sholle-Martin is an internationally known creative healing artist, occupational therapist, wife, mother of two children, and two-time cancer survivor.
• Eric McGehearty's work expresses a world where language is a written code that is unable to be read. The sculptures intend to frustrate the viewer and tap into the desperation contemporary consumers feel when they cannot get information.
• Katie Miller's current body of work comments on the relationship between the mundane and the surreal, and how it relates to changing contemporary and romantic notions of childhood.
• Elise Mravunac's rich, densely layered compositions, such as You're Doing It Wrong, reflect her study of old master painters, a pursuit that has brought discipline and focus to her workflow
• Sarah Muehlbauer is an interdisiplinary artist pursuing my Masters at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Her background is a combination of painting, video, and textiles, as well as various types of performance.
• SylviAnn Murray is a disabled visual artist.
• Danny Muller, a very talented young man, has been painting since he was 11 years old. His favorite mediums are wax crayons and oils pastels on paper. Daniel’s technique is very much his own. His trademark style, vigorous coloring followed by a diligent process of scratching the surface with his fingernails, creates a sense of depth, vitality and movement in his work.
• Scott Norris is a long-term brain cancer survivor and award-winning artist. His preferred media are digital art and glazed ceramic mosaics.
• Mark Parsons creates sculptural paper casting as well as work in lead, steel, and mixed media including wood and rubber. His work includes Amorphous Morphology, a site specific architectural installation at Columbia University. From 2002-2003, he was a visiting professor at Hunter College in New York . He is a person with Multiple Sclerosis.
• Marilena Pilla combines her love for interior and set design in bold paintings that use the chair to symbolize the human form. The chairs dance, caress, and embrace as if characters on the stage of life.
• Petros Roukoutakis has organized and participated in many personal and group exhibitions and for his sculpture and instructive work in Art and Culture he has been awarded by the Academy of Greece (1994).
• Harriet Sanderson exhibits nationally, primarily in alternative spaces. Her work includes: experimental and traditional prints; works on paper; print based and sculptural; installations; andvideotaped and photographic performance.
• Jon Sarkin, artist, sculptor and poet, once a successful chiropractor became an artist after experiencing a brain hemorrhage at the age of 35.
• Matt Sesow is an indepedent, self-taught artist, living and painting in Washington, D.C.
• Katherine Sherwood’s acclaimed mixed-media paintings gracefully investigate the point at which the essential aspects of art, medicine, and disability intersect.
• Valerie Jankowski Skrabut is a self-taught, award-winning artist. Her paintings express conceptual abstracts and realism in nature. Trained as a musician, Valerie turned to computer art to express herself when, in 1990, multiple sclerosis (MS) erased her ability to perform.
• Jill Smith is a textile artist with a mobility disability. She specializes in contemporary wall hangings.
• Ken Smith began his creative work as a writer later illustrating his writing with photography in commercial and editorial venues. After a serious aircraft accident he began to gravitate toward fine arts photography.
• Sam Smith's web site provides people with a great escape and a way to experience humor. Sam is an artist who is visually impaired.
• Sunaura Taylor is an American painter and activist for disability and animal rights. Her work has been displayed in the Smithsonian and in galleries across the United States. She is the recipient of a 2008 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award. In 2004, she received the Grand Prize in the VSA arts Driving Force juried exhibition for emerging disabled artists
• All of the paintings that Ricky Trione creates are tactile, and are meant to be touched.  He creates an outline of his subject with a raised media that allows him to feel the space.  Many times Ricky paints with his fingers in order to feel the canvas and keep his bearings.
• Photographer, Kurt Weston, an AIDS patient diagnosed with CMV retinitis is an award-winning California resident who is committed to his art and activism.

• Dave Lupton is the leading Disabled cartoonist in the UK, working for the most part on the political edge of Disability issues and rights, identifying the barriers that exist for Disabled people within our society whilst focusing on the humour (sometimes!) and the absurdity of many situations.
• DizABLED John Lytle's comic strip DizAbled, starring Leeder O. Men, wheelchair stuntman.
• Neil Kapit is the creator of the comic Ruby's World.

• Blind Boys of Alabama sing a fervent blend of traditional and contemporary Gospel music
• Drake Music is an organisation working with disabled musicians of all ages. Drake Music offers the chance to explore, compose and perform music at every level, using technology and other creative options.
• Vince Bell is a working "rock'n'western" musician who spent ten years re-learning how to walk, talk, and play music again after a car accident resulted in traumatic brain injury. His most recent album is Texas Plates.
• Dave Biro is a singer-songwriter with epilepsy and severe memory impairment, results of encephalitis. Nonetheless, The New York Times raved about Dave's children's cassette, The Cradle Will Rock…. His songs "...feature playful phrasing and a variety of orchestral arrangements to engage and educate young listeners…there's a verbal kind of humor and wordplay in his lyrics that (also) appeals to grown-ups." (New York Times, Jersey Section 5/30/99).
• Cityzen started with songwriting partners Tobias Forrest and Jeff Line who used mind control to persuade four younger more talented musicians to enter a cacauphany of noise. Nick Woods (drums), Tristan Cannizzaro (guitar), Chris Woods (keys) and Max Kutzman (bass) are unique players with mutant like musical abilities.
• Musicians from the Coalition for Disabled Musicians.
• Singer-songwriter Melody Gardot has a haunting smooth voice that can melt the coldest of hearts.
• Matt Giordano, as a composer, director, and presenter, he is dedicated to conveying his inspirational message of perseverance and determination has touched national and international groups of all ages.
• Evelyn Glennie, is an award winning Scottish percussionist has been profoundly deaf since the age of 12. Her performances cross traditional and popular musical forms. This uncommonly versatile musician has managed to draw new audiences to the classical world.
• Atlanta based rock band Van Gogh was founded by Robby and Ricky Heisner both wheelchair users in 1992.
• Krip Hop’s aim is to get the musical talents of hip-hop artists with disabilities into the hands of media outlets, educators, hip-hop, disabled and race scholars, youth, hip-hop conference coordinators, agents and to report on the latest news on musicians with disabilities
• Patrick Henry Hughes, a pianist and vocalist, is a recipient of the 2005 VSA arts Panasonic Young Soloists Award who performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. on May 16, 2005.
• Rudely Interrupted are one of Australias truly unique indie rock acts. 5 out of the 6 members share a range of both physical and intellectual disabilities (Blindness, Deafness, Aspergers, Autism and Down Syndrome) but most importantly, a common interest in self expression through music. T
• Scott MacIntyre began playing piano by ear at age 3, though he has been visually impaired since birth. Classically trained, he has been profiled on CNN, Sky News Europe, USA Today, and other media as pianist, vocalist, and songwriter. He has independently released 6 full-length CD's and has written in genres spanning pop, rock, punk, jazz, and classical.
• Thomas Quasthoff is a German bass-baritone and author of an autobiography.
• Anthony Rain Starez - a visionary artist who paints through his music and short stories. Despite being in a wheelchair due to a car accident, Anthony still sings in a band called, Free Spirit. And his website features original music in MP3 format, bio, personal pictures and many short stories.
• Vaidyanathan Suresh, a disabled musician is one of the few percussionists with an aesthetic sense of approach to performing on any percussion instrument especially ghatam his favorite earthen clay pot instrument!
• Lisa Thorson, jazz vocalist and wheelchair user.

• Amici Dance Theatre Company is a large professional company which integrates performers with physical disabilities, learning difficulties, sensory impairments, and those who are able-bodied.
• Anjali Dance Company is a professional-quality contemporary dance company of dancers with learning disabilities. The company is based at The Mill Arts Centre in Banbury, Oxfordshire, and is one of the first of its kind in the UK.
• Asher Dance Eclectic is truly an ECLECTIC group of professional dancers. Their dancers exude the beauty of diversity through their shapes, sizes, colors and physical (dis)abilities! Annual dance concerts, as well, feature an eclectic arrangement of dance styles including modern, lyrical, jazz, musical theatre and tap.
• AXIS Dance Company a contemporary integrated dance company, Co-Directed by Judith Smith and Nicole Richter based in Oakland, CA. Their new work includes works by choreographers such as Bill T. Jones, Joe Goode, Joanna Haigwood, and Sonia Delwaide.
• Bethune Theatredance/Dance Outreach is a company that blends the elements of dance, special effects art, video and music to pioneer a unique theatrical experience.Fusing the disciplined grace of ballet with the dynamic style of modern dance, Bethune Theatredanse adapts its stories from the fields of literature, film television, screenplays and art works.
• CandoCo tours throughout the UK and abroad with a new program of works every 18 months. The dancers also lead an extensive education program which include choreographic residencies, residential summer schools, specialist training for teachers, a youth program, as well as open workshops aimed at everyone who wants to experience integrated dance.
• Corali Dance Company is a professional performance group made up of adults with learning disabilities.
• Dance Detour, is a professional “diverse-abilities” dance company.  Their work is dedicated exclusively to the art of integrated dance and collaborations that include dancers with and without disabilities who explore movement possibilities together as equals.
• Dancing Wheels is a contemporary professional integrated dance company founded and Directed by Mary Verdi Fletcher and Co-Directed by Sabatino Verlezza based in Cleveland, OH. The aim of the company is to promote the collaboration and artistic talents of dancers with and without disabilities while demonstrating the diversity of dance and the abilities of artists with physical challenges.
• Expressive Movement Therapy is a not-for-profit organization in northern Virginia that offers dance and movement classes to children ages 3-16 who have special needs. There are classes for children who have mild disabilities such as ADD, or motor planning deficits and classes for children with Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, etc.
• Full Radius Dance, a modern integrated dance company Directed by Douglas Scott based in Atlanta, GA. Their work challenges traditional gender portrayals and celebrates dance technique and physicality.
• Green Candle Dance Company is concerned with bringing dance to all sections of the community, particularly those who have least access to it.
• Hand-CAP Dance purpose is to expose the art of dance to all individuals including those with disabilities by having disabled and non-disabled young artists work together.
• Inflight Dance Company's primary focus is to demonstrate that a physical disability is not a barrier in the dance world. Dance for the disabled dancer is excellent because moving to music is therapeutic for the body and uplifting for the spirit. Movement set in choreography to be performed publicly offers a challenge, and challenge makes life interesting and fulfilling. Movement is healthy and dance challenges the human physical, mental and emotional capabilities.
• Magpie Dance Company is an English dance company for dancers with learning disabilities.
• Merry Makers Australia are a diverse group, ranging in age from 6 to 56, most of whom have an intellectual or physical disability, but all of whom refuse to be defeated by the enormous challenges life has dealt them.
• Music and the Deaf defines its mission as to help deaf people of all ages and degrees of hearing loss to access music and the performing arts through workshops, schools projects, talks and signed theatre performances throughout the United Kingdom. Music and the Deaf provides information throughout the world to teachers and parents of deaf children and to hearing-impaired adults.
• Restless Dance Theatre is a youth dance company, driven by performers with disability.
• Special Kids Dance & Performing Arts mission is to provide instruction in dance and performing arts to help improve fitness,health,focus, muscle strength, coordination, balance, self-confidence and social skills.
• Touchdown Dance, directed by Katy Dymoke, provides dance workshops and has an integrated dance company of 6-8 dancers, who have trained together and perform in professional settings.

• Awareness Theater Company is a theatrical group composed of people with and without disabilities. The mission of this theater is to create good theatrical pieces that highlight the skills and issues of the members of this company.
• CLIMB Theatre was founded and Directed by Peg Wetli to give persons with disabilities access to theatre arts. It is based in Inver Grove Heights, MN. CLIMB has evolved from a theatre company for persons with disabilities to a theatre company that uses drama techniques to teach life skills to all children.
• Deaf West Theatre presents professional main stage productions in American Sign Language with simultaneous voice translation, thereby bridging the gap between deaf and hearing worlds.
• Graeae Theatre Company directed by Jenny Sealey is a professional national and international touring theatre company who also provides community and educational projects and training in theatre skills for people with disabilities. The theater is housed in London.
• Heart 'n Soul directed by Michael Gaunt is based in London and is one of the most popular performance companies to develop from the disability arts scene. Their work has become recognized and respected by disabled and non-disabled audiences, for productions that deliver extraordinary pieces of Music Theatre which express the way that they see the world.
• Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts was founded to provide artists with disabilities a place to pursue and develop their art to its highest potential, and to increase their integration into the broader professional arts community. Their center is staffed by professional musicians, actors and visual artists, who provide advocacy, mentorship and collaboration.
• Magic Moments, Inc. is a non-profit organization, established in 1983, that produces an annual musical and theatrical production. Each production integrates persons with physical and developmental disabilities into the total performing cast of amateurs and professionals.
• Open Circle Theatre is Washington DC’s first professional theatre dedicated to producing professional productions that integrate the considerable talents of artists with disabilities.
• Performing Arts Studio West is a performing arts studio that brings together disabled and non-disabled actors, singers, musicians and technical personnel, combining their talents to produce quality, original entertainment.
• Phamaly is a theatre group and touring company that enables physically challenged performers to showcase their talents and abilities and to make the performing arts more accessible to everyone. Phamaly is dedicated to producing traditional theater in nontraditional ways.
• StopGAP works hard to raise the profile of integrated dance within the community, providing dance opportunities for people who would not easily find access to dance.
• The Cleveland Signstage Theater Company based in Cleveland, OH and run by Artistic Director Shanny Mow has performed throughout the United States, as well as abroad. Deaf and hearing cast members perform simultaneously in spoken English and American Sign Language in pursuit of their mission to "produce extraordinary theater that brings deaf and hearing people together". Productions include comedy, drama, musicals, tragedy, suitable for both adults and children.
• The National Theatre of the Deaf is a professional acting company made up of deaf and hearing actors. The National Theatre of the Deaf brought Sign Language out of the shadows and placed it in the world spotlight, raising it to the level of an art form. The theatre's signature style, a combination of Sign Language and spoken words, has expanded the boundaries of theatrical expression.
• Theater Breaking Through Barriers is an integrated company of blind, visually impaired, and sighted artists dedicated to finding, developing, and exhibiting blind theatrical talent.
  Theatre in Motion based in New York is a participatory, educational theatre company which utilizes non-traditional casting, that is, disabled and non-disabled artists working together, serving all populations. Executive Director Leslie Fanelli designs all programs which focus on Dr. Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI) in live, "hands-on" workshops for K-8 educators. The highly acclaimed musical soundtrack to Theatre in Motion's Off Broadway show, "Disabled, Empowered, and Proud", is now available on CD.
• Wild Swan Theatre based in Ann Arbor, MI and run by Artistic Director Hillary Cohen is known nationally for its ingenious artistry, its innovative audience accessibility program, and projects for participants with disabilities. Wild Swan Theater has been delighting audiences since 1980 with performances that blend storytelling, movement, and music into magical, accessible experiences.

• Pinky Aiello is a SILENT Entertainer and comedian. Don't think she is ignoring you, its because she is deaf. Featuring American Sign Language.
• Michael Aronin is a comedian and nationally acclaimed speaker who teaches his audiences how to get past personal shortcomings and move forward productively in their careers.
• Josh Blue, winner of season 4 of NBC's Last Comic Standing, he has emerged as one of the hottest comedians in the country.
• Kathy Buckly, is a five-time American Comedy Award Nominee as Best Stand-Up Female Comedienne, and the winner of countless other awards for her work.
• Jaehn Clare as an actor, director, producer and playwright who uses a wheelchair.
• Chris Fonesca, a recognizable presence, as one of the world’s most successful comics with a disability, Fonseca has run the gamut of spotlights.
• Tyler Fortin, is a very busy young Canadian comic, who draws on his living with cerebral palsy to bring his whimsical wit to stand-up, corporate, and motivational/training gigs. He starts with courage and ends up with great laughs--for any kind of audience! Tyler was the winner of the 2001 Norman G. Brooks Stand Up Comedy Scholarship Competitionat The Laugh Factory in Los Angeles.
• Geri Jewell, comedian, actor, motiviational speaker, is famous for her uncanny ability to captivate the hearts of her audiences by using humor to facilitate attitudinal change. She is best known as Cousin Geri on the NBC sitcom, “The Facts of Life”. She was the first person with a disability to have a regular role on a prime time series.
• Diana Elizabeth Jordan is an accomoplished stage and film actor as well as a teacher, coach, public speaker, and advocate for equal opportunities for performers with disabilities.
• Victoria Maxwell, Mental Health educator, consultant, actor and writer,  is the Creative Director of Crazy for Life Co.™ and an award-winning actress and playwright with over 18 years experience, Victoria has worked alongside David Duchovny, John Travolta and Johnny Depp, among others.
• Philip Patston is one of New Zealands most popular comedians.
• David Roche is a comedian, keynote speaker, and performer who speaks nationwide to many diverse audiences and tours his signature one-man show, The Church of 80% Sincerity. In his bio David states, " I am proud to be part of the emerging culture of disability and I believe in the healing power of humor."
• Ryan Thomson is presently a full time performer and music educator. He acquired adult onset focal dystonia in 1989, and subsequently relearned to play violin left handed in order to resume a professional performing career.
• Greg Walloch is a gifted actor, writer, storyteller, performance artist, comedian and teacher. His hilarious and heart-breaking one man show White Disabled Talent has toured extensively, receiving rave reviews.

• Sprout's Make-A-Movie Program offers people with developmental disabilities the opportunity to be a part of the making of a video.
• Grit Media is a project of Disability Media Inc. They aim to bring awareness of disability into people’s homes through the production of media including television, video, film, print and radio.
• How's Your News, from small beginnings ten years ago at a summer camp in Massachusetts, a group of people with disabilities have honed their news reporting skills to create a topical six episode comedy series currently screening on MTV.
• Webby Talents is a site originating from Quebec offering an online service for sharing and watching videos made by or for persons with disabilities.

• Walk this Way is an award winning documentary film by Chris Sheridan about his personal experiences as a wheelchair user since breaking his back in a plane crash.

• SUPERFEST XXII, International Media Festival on Disabilities 2002 awards is an annual media festival produced by the Corporation on Disabilities and Telecommunication. SUPERFEST honors works that positively and realistically portray the disability experience or warrant technical merit. The following contains a list and description of the award winners of SUPERFEST XXII, (2002).
  

• Beth Finke, an NPR commentator, is an award-winning author, teacher and journalist. She also happens to be blind.
• Heidi Lerner sustained a severe Traumatic Brain Injury in a car accident. In support of others with brain injuries, Ms. Lerner wrote a book of poetry, titled Gray Matters, which is aimed at giving other people a clue as to what it's like to walk in the shoes of a brain injury survivor.
• Chava Willig Levy is a NY based author, editor, lecturer and singer. This site contains examples of her writings on childhood, parenthood, spirituality, disability, quality and the meaning of life.
• Kevin Kling is a well-known playwright and storyteller, and his commentaries can be heard on NPR’s All Things Considered. His plays and adaptations have been performed around the world.
• Art and poetry gallery by bipolar author Mara McWilliams. She strongly believes in the therapeutic value of art therapy and shares her belief with others. Mara recently released her first book of poetry and art entitled, OUTTA MY HEAD AND IN YOUR FACE. A contribution area will soon be added.
• Judy Malloy is a writer/artist whose work has been exhibited and published internationally. She has a mobility disability as a result of being hit by a car in 1994. You can also visit her blog Poet on Crutches.
• Dan Windheim is owner of the web site "Living with TBI". On this site there is poetry by survivors of Brain Injury, from around the world; Q&A feedback form for survivors; important links; many of Dan's writings, and much more.
• Wordgathering is produced by members of the Inglis House Poetry Workshop. The workshop is a collaborative of writers with disabilities who reside at Inglis House in Philadelphia, Pa. In addition, they have worked to promote the writing of poets with disabilities through their annual poetry contest, chapbook productions, and, most recently, Poetry and Disabilities Conference.

• Rick Boggs musician, and actor who is blind. Rick has appeared in over thirty television commercials, and had parts on several television shows. His most recent appearance was on "Sabrina The Teenage Witch".
• Simi Linton, as a writer, consultant and public speaker, Simi Linton is one of America’s foremost experts on disability and the arts.
• Lynn Manning is an award winning playwright, poet, athlete and actor who is blind.
• Kari Ann Owen is an artist, playwright, modern dancer and singer. Her work addresses a range of themes from Native American graphic art work to plays that speak to the Vietnam War experience.
• Donna Williams, herself diagnosed with autism, is an internationally renowned public speaker, author of 7 books in the field of autism and developmental disabilities and prolific painter, composer and sculptor. Her works inspire others to think beyond the word disability and celebrate diversity, equality in difference and our own wonderful 'music of beingness.

• Depression: A Visual Journal of Healing & Transformation is an exhibit of fourteen dramatic, large-scale (20 in. x 26 in. overall size) black-and-white photographs depicting a symbolic journey through depression. Each image is accompanied by a short, experience-based poem that speaks to a specific aspect of depression: medication, the mind-body-spirit connection, isolation, hope, the need for balance, healing, and more. The exhibit includes educational facts about depression and resources people can call for help with mental health concerns.
• Survivors Art Foundation is a non-profit organization committed to empowering visual, literary and performing artists with effective expressive outlets, via a Web Gallery, National Exhibitions, Outreach Programs and Publications. Their goal is to provide entertainment, education, exposure to the arts, and public awareness, while mainstreaming trauma survivors with physical and mental disabilities into the arts.
• VSA arts Derivative Composition 2008 artists use a wide range of media and unconventional methods to convey the exhibition's theme, including thoughtful two-dimensional pieces, dynamic sculpture, and intimate moving imagery.

• California Artist Directory is a searchable database of California artists with disabilities that was developed in response to requests that we receive for artists to teach workshops, perform or display their work.
• VSA arts' online Artists Registry is an extension of VSA arts' Artists Registry that includes over 1,000 visual, performing, and literary artists with disabilities.

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