Space for this program is limited; registration required.

Please join us at the Central Branch of Enoch Pratt Free Library for a Public Convening hosted by Baltimore, The City of Accessible Arts. This convening kicks off a two-day series of events; for more information about Baltimore’s 3rd Annual Disability Pride Arts Fest, click here.

All are welcome to attend this accessible event, in person or virtually, with ASL interpreters, audio description, sensory breaks, and more. The convening is designed to propel Baltimore towards becoming the City of Accessible Arts. Share this day with museums, public art spaces, artists with disabilities, disability-focused organizations and disability justice activists. You will enjoy a film screening, panel discussions and conversation, and an exhibition of artwork by artists with disabilities.

Are you a person with a disability, a caretaker or family member of a person with a disability who wants to experience the arts but you can’t because of all the barriers that get in your way? Come join us on July 11th so together we can move our City towards becoming barrier-free, the City of Accessible Arts.

Lunch will be provided.

Convening Agenda:

• Exhibition by Make Studio and VisAbility Art Lab resident artists
• Screening: “Seeing without Sight” by Alyscia Cunningham
• Keynote by Robin Marquis (Senior Inclusion Strategist, Prime Access Consulting, Content Lead – Museum of the Blind Peoples’ Movement)
• Convening Communities: Presentations by Arts and Disability Organizations and Disabled Artists
• Access Consortiums: Arts and Access Network (DC), Museums, Arts and Culture (NYC), Cultural Access Collaborative (Chicago) and Art-Reach (Philadelphia)
• Next Steps – facilitated by Dr. Sheri Parks, Community Strategist and Research Associate at the National Center for Smart Growth
• Closing Reflections by Dr. Schroeder Cherry, curator, James E. Lewis Museum of Art (JELMA)