Classes & Workshops

Name: Creating Access Through Your Art
Start: 2025-07-31T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-07-31T13:30:00-05:00

Creating Access Through Your Art

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July 31, 2025 at 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

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Classes & Workshops, Creative Accessibility, Workshops for Artists, Workshops for Organizations

Presenter(s)

Jenel Shaw

Jenel Shaw is a visual artist who graduated with a Masters in Disability Studies from the University of Manitoba. Her dissertation, An Autoethnological Study of Art as a Tool of Empowerment, examined her own experiences with mental illness and disability art. Shaw is a passionate advocate for the disability community, with a focus on accessibility in the arts. She is the Executive Director of Arts AccessAbility Network Manitoba and the Co-Chair of the Manitoba Artist-Run Centres Coalition.

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Arts AccessAbility Network Manitoba is a regional not-for-profit artist-run charitable organization dedicated to the full inclusion of artists and audiences with disabilities into all facets of the arts community.

What are you trying to say with your art? All art has intrinsic meaning but can everyone in your audience access and understand it with equality? Imagine if you could reach people across all communities by making some simple changes and updates to the way you make and promote your creative endeavours.

Join Arts AccessAbility Network Manitoba Executive Director Jenel Shaw as she addresses some of the ways artists can make their work more accessible to the Deaf and disability communities.

This session will discuss image descriptions, the use of QR codes, outreach, and so many more ways you can enhance accessibility and broaden your audience. Discussion will include all types of art-making, including visual art, music, poetry and performance. This FREE lunch time session is aimed at artists of all disciplines and abilities so sign up today!

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