{"id":1740,"date":"2016-02-14T22:48:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T03:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2016-02-14T22:49:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T03:49:11","slug":"accessibility-to-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/accessibility-to-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessibility to Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vsamass.org\/pivotx\/images\/2013-05\/arts-access-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"255\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Another class that I am taking this semester includes an arts based service learning project that is great evidence of a local organization who facilitates social engagement in art. \u00a0Arts Access is a non profit based in Raleigh that works to make art in the Triangle Area more accessible to children and adults with disabilities. \u00a0A primary part of Arts Access\u2019s work is an audio description program, which offers descriptions of art works and performances so that community members who are blind might also enjoy these works. \u00a0Works covered include dance and theatre performances, public sculptures or works found in museum collections.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Arts Access brings an important question to light: when considering socially engaged art, we often ask \u201cwho are we trying to engage with?\u201d \u00a0rather than, \u201cwho are we failing to engage with that we could also reach?\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Programs like Arts Access allow artists to make their work more accessible as well as making sure that those with disabilities do not miss out on the experience of engaging with art.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">To learn more about Arts Access:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsaccessinc.org\/\"><span class=\"s2\">http:\/\/www.artsaccessinc.org\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The class that is working with Arts Access: THEATRST310\/ECON247: Non Profit Cultural Organizations, taught by Dan Ellison\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another class that I am taking this semester includes an arts based service learning project that is great evidence of a local organization who facilitates social engagement in art. \u00a0Arts Access is a non profit based in Raleigh that works to make art in the Triangle Area more accessible to children and adults with disabilities. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/accessibility-to-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Accessibility to Art&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":936,"featured_media":1742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[462,460,464,463,461,420],"coauthors":[397],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experimental-pedagogy","tag-accessibility","tag-arts-access","tag-blindness-and-art","tag-disabled-audiences","tag-raleigh","tag-socially-engaged-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1741,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions\/1741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}