Jump To:
The City of Raleigh Arts Commission and United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County partnered on a new initiative in 2015 to increase the engagement of people with disabilities. The Arts Learning Community for Universal Access consists of arts and cultural organizations that collaborate to advocate for and improve access to the arts for deaf and disability community members.
Members
| Advocate | Organization |
|---|---|
| Betsy Ludwig* | Arts Access |
| Kari Martin Hollinger, Carly Jones, Meg Revelle* and Stephen Wall* | Arts Together |
| Brett Morris and Megan Sullivan* | Artspace |
| Sarah Preston | Cary Arts Center |
| Jaclyn Bowie and Gab Smith* | CAM Raleigh |
| Cecilia Saloni | El Pueblo |
| Ella Fang | International Focus |
| Jordan Pearce | Marbles Kids Museum |
| Emily Catherine Mealor | North Carolina Arts Council |
| Melissa Roth | North Carolina Museum of Art |
| Liani Yirka | North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences |
| Dan Ellison and Hilary Leggette | N.C. State University Gregg Museum |
| Mia Self | N.C. State University Theatre |
| Meredith Laing | North Carolina Symphony |
| Donna Mullins | North Carolina Theatre |
| Sarah Corrin* | Office of Raleigh Arts |
| Jamie Katz Court* and Courtney Wheeler | PineCone |
| Fidel Benton and Meredyth Pederson Cooper | Raleigh Little Theatre |
| Julia Meder* | Sertoma Arts Center |
| Ragen Carlile* | United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County |
| Brandon Cordrey* | Visual Art Exchange |
| Cathy Gouge | Wake Forest Renaissance Centre |
| Johannah Maynard Edwards | Women's Theatre Festival |
Learning Community Digital Scrapbook
Wanting to show that accessibility is within reach for any organization, the 2019-2020 Learning Community members created a Digital Scrapbook, capturing the processes and results of individual projects enacted at their organizations.
View the Digital Scrapbook (Word Document)
Application Process
The Arts Learning Community for Universal Access is a yearlong program that brings together like-minded arts and cultural administrators who want to improve how inclusive their organizations are of the deaf community and people living with disabilities. The program runs July through June, and the application process generally takes place in the spring.
Program Participation Requirements:
- Located within Wake County.
- A nonprofit exempt from federal and state income tax as either a charitable organization with 501(c)(3) designation by the Internal Revenue Service with established arts programming or a unit of municipal government.
Interested organizations located outside of Wake County should contact Sarah Corrin to discuss their situation.
The 2019-2020 Learning Community application cycle has closed.