What Do We Offer?

We are a professional development program for emerging artists living with disability and metal health issues. 

We currently offer 2 artistic programs.

1. Foundation Stones Program - which introduces artists to ArtISability and provides a supported learning environment to nurture the skills needed to establish an artistic practice.

2. Stepping Stones Program - Currently this is only available to those who have completed the Foundation Stones Program. In this program artists are assisted to connect to their local arts community. We currently provide:- learning support; transport assistance; access to information and guidance.

Community Disability Awareness Training - to assist the Ipswich Community to engage with our artists. The introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme will provide support for people with disabilities and their families to fully participate in the life of their community. From July 2016 we will phase out providing support workers and transport assistance as these will be provided by the NDIS so we can the focus on skills development. Until then our role is to prepare the community for the engagement of people with disabilities.

We were hoping to offer Disability Awareness Training in December however our speaker had to cancel due to illness.  We are planning two sessions in early February.

Introduction to ArtISability Workshops:  These will enable beginning and emerging artists to experiences a sample workshop, to help them make decisions around the suitability of our program for themselves.  These will run similar to the workshops we ran during disability action week 2014.