The Disability Information and Resource Centre

The Disability and Arts Transition Team invite visual artists to get

unBOUND – an art sale that won’t let you be framed-in.

If you are an artist with a studio full of unframed work and identify as having a disability GET REGISTERED to take part in the unBOUND art sale being planned for December 2011.

Conditions for Registration

1. You must have least 20 items of unframed 2D work (on paper, canvas, photography, working drawings, sketches, works in progress, etc),
2. Identify as an artist with a disability,
3. Be willing to offer each work for sale for less than $100.

To find out more or to get a Registration Form, contact the Disability and Arts Transition Team by email to unbound@cansa.net.au, by phone on 08 8231 0900 or text to 0488 372 378 by 2nd November 2011.

Download the flyer for the event.

Shift, a VSA international exhibition by artists with disabilities is calling for entries from visual artists worldwide. Selected works will be exhibited at the John F. Kennedy Centre for Performing Arts in Washington DC later this year.

Applications close 11th March.

For more information visit Arts Access Australia.

d4d are holding a word and visual arts competition with $2000 in prizes!

Entrants to the competition will need to express what their perfect South Australia for people with disabilities is.

Entries can be in one of the following categories:

1. Word Arts – essay or poetry (500 words or less) or video or sound recordings (5 minutes or less)
2. Visual Arts- painting, drawing, photography or sculpture

The competition is open to everyone. Individuals with disabilities, carers, support workers and interested people as well as groups (classrooms, families, day options groups, organisations etc) are all invited and encouraged to enter.

Entries close 20 February 2011.

For more information, including instructions on how to enter, download this information sheet from d4d.

Male, Female, Disabled is an exhibition of work by emerging artist Evangelia Karageorgos.

www.mfdisabled.weebly.com

Language is a tool that is used to separate people with disabilities from ‘normal’ society, and to negatively characterise their experiences as being different and separate.

This is a series of work that challenges societies perception of people with disabilities and challenges the wide spread use of ‘disabalist’ language.

Official Opening

Sunday February 20th 2011, 2pm to 5pm.

To be Opened By

Kelly Vincent (D4D candidate and MP)

Venue

Carclew Youth Arts
11 Jeffcott Street, North Adelaide 5006

Exhibition Dates

Friday February 18th to Friday March 13th 2011
Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm

$1 out of every $10 made from the sale of this work will go to a disability service in South Australia.

The 2010 South Australian Living Artist (SALA) Festival concludes on 22nd August 2010.

The SALA Festival is a uniquely South Australian event that encourages its audience to get out and view the works of emerging and established artists in traditional and nontraditional spaces all over the state.

Paperworks is an exhibition of works on paper by young adults with disabilities from Tutti’s Visual Arts and Design Program. To be opened by Adelaide Visual Artist Laura Wills.

Exhibition dates: 1st August to 21st August 2010, Tuesday to Saturday 12noon-5pm.

Please RSVP by Thursday 29 July.

For more info call (08) 8422 6511 or jackie.smith@tutti.org.au

In conjunction with Youth Beyond Blue, The South Australian Office for Youth, National Youth Week and Diamond House, Autism SA is offering an opportunity for 15-25 year olds with ASD to come to a free arts workshop this Saturday April 10th in celebration of National Youth Week and Autism Awareness Month.

Please click here for more details.

The Royal SA Society of Arts Inc. (RSASA) are holding a Fringe Exhibition titled A Breath of Sea Air.

This will be an an exhibition by members of the Royal South Australian Society of Arts.

Date and Time

The exhibition will be opened opened at 6.00pm Thursday 18th February by Dr Duncan McFetridge, MP.

The exhibition will run from 19 Feb – 18 April 2010.

Location

Bay Discovery Centre
Mezzanine Gallery, Glenelg Town Hall
Moseley Square, Glenelg

RSVP and More Information

Please see the flyer.

RSVP (acceptances only please) to lporplyzia@holdfast.sa.gov.au.

The Julia Farr Association is presenting an art exhibition with the theme of “A Good Life “.

Artists are encouraged to interpret elements or aspects which contribute toward ‘a good life’. What does ‘a good life’ mean to you? Feel welcome to interpret the theme broadly and and to explore issues which are relevant to you, the disability sector and the broader community.

The exhibition will run from 29th June 2010 to 28th January 2011.

Artwork must be received by 5pm, Friday 28th May 2010.

Contact

Ph: 8373 8333

Email: admin@juliafarr.org.au

Web: The Julia Farr Association

2009 Exhibition Public Choice Awards Winners

First Place

Instinct to Nurture by Pam Fox

Second Place

Evil Innocence by Daniel Harper

Third Place

This Could Happen to Anyone by Cherie Almond

The Trustees invite applications for the 2010 Dawn Slade-Faull Awards.

The Awards of up to $1,000 seek to encourage the personal or professional development of persons with a disability who show promise in an area of craft activity or of the visual arts.

Applications may be made by any person resident in South Australia, who carries an intellectual, physical, psychiatric or sensory disability – or where necessary, by their advocates.

Further information may be obtained by contacting Denis on (08)  8332 5171.

For Guidelines and Application Forms contact Karen at Community Choices on (08) 8273 7800  or email karenc@communitychoices.com.au

Application forms are available in hard copy or digital format.

Applications for the 2010 Awards close on Friday 8th January 2010.