Explore Disabilities: Arts & Culture

Read collected biographies and sample pieces from outstanding disabled artists. These artists paint with their hands, their mouths and their feet. Check out The Amazing Art of Disabled Artists.

Is the Beauty Industry Glossing Over Disability? As marketing moves to be more inclusive, people with visible disabilities are still largely missing from mainstream beauty ads. Teacher and advocate Xian Horn discusses the changes she hopes the industry makes next.

Art has played an integral role in the burgeoning movement for disability justice throughout the United States in the last decade. Read about the influence the art community has had on eroding disability stereotypes in Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Arts Now.

A passionate advocate for equal access, sign language interpreter Amber Galloway Gallego has created an immersive translation style that brings the emotional experience of music and performance to the Deaf community and beyond.

The Creation of a New Narrative Space: Five Works by Poets with Disabilities

Poems with Disabilities by Jim Ferris

The Lady with a Green Cane by Fran Gardner

Red Shoes by Sheila Black

Florence by Khairani Barokka

From Autobiography/anti-autobiography by Jennifer Bartlett

I Didn't See You There is a Disability Film Unlike Any Other. Reid Davenport, a disabled filmmaker, leans into social tension with his experimental, groundbreaking movie narrated by him and shot entirely from his perspective.

Paintings Made During Lengthy Hospital Stay Bring Teen With Autism New Audience

A year ago, painting watercolors was just a way to give a boy with severe autism some peace during a difficult hospitalization. Now, his paintings decorate cards that have brought in about $10,000.

14 times that movies and TV shows cast actors with disabilites to play disabled roles.