Welcome to the blog on adding your contribution to The Disability Mural. Included are written directions and photographic examples on how to create your own tiles, display your own mural, sample permission forms, and a list of keywords.
If you use these guidelines, please send us photographic documentation of your workshops and exhibitions. Any suggestions for making these directions clearer are greatly appreciated.
The Disability Mural is a unique expression of disability, the first community artwork created by people with disabilities. The Mural began in March 2000 as a 200 square-foot work, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Response to the Disability Mural has been so overwhelming that to date over 1000 tiles have been created to date. Individual 12" square tiles are painted or collaged to express the artist's experience with disability. The artists are people living with disabilities as well as individuals who do not have a disability but who have experienced disability through family or friends.
The goal of the Mural is to express the range of experiences and emotions of people touched by disability. The Mural has been compared to the Names Project Quilt; however, where the Quilt is a community expression of loss and grief, the Mural is a celebration of the lives and contributions of people with disabilities. The Mural is housed in the CforAT Access Studio in Berkeley, and has been displayed in a variety of venues including the Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco, Oakland City Hall, the Richmond Arts Center, and the Olive Hyde Gallery in Fremont. The Mural will eventually be on permanent display at the Ed Roberts Campus, which will be built at the Ashby BART station.
For more information about CforAT, go to http://www.cforat.org, email info@cforat.org, or call 510-841-3224 (voice), or 510-841-5621 (tty). For more information about The Disability Mural, email fvalesco@cforat.org.
You can watch a short video about the mural at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxKX31nNKbg.
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