Week 1: Disability Rights and Justice – A Brief Overview

• Social vs Medical Model of Disability

• Dominant narratives of disability

• Community and disability

• Politics of disability

• Disability Justice and Accessibility

Learning objects: To explore how disability is as much a socially constructed phenomenon as a biological one and understand why it is important to begin the study of disability from the perspective of disabled people themselves

Week 2: Accessible Curatorial Practices

• Curatorial approaches to access

• Tangled Accessibility Toolkit and resources

• Standards, case studies and implementation

• Working within institutions

Learning objectives: To understand that accessibility is always in flux, recognizing the difference between access standards and accessibility activism

Week 3: Cultivating Disability Culture

• Disability Aesthetics

• Arts Funding and budgeting

• Outreach and audience cultivation

Learning objectives: To recognize the places that disability aesthetics have been co-opted in art history, building out timelines, working with disabled artists and audience members, as well as the exciting possibilities of accessible aesthetics and the ethics of access.

Week 4: Cripping the Arts

• Disabled Artists

• Disability Futurity

• Reclaiming community through art

Learning objectives: To identify the connection between art, politics, power and oppression, recognizing the vibrancy of disability art and how access can impact us all.