Inclusive Arts

The Tanglewood and Housewright Symposia concluded that music programs should include music from other cultures, as well as teach students of all abilities.

Digital musical instruments and interfaces can be designed to enable people with disabilities to participate in creative music-making.

Nordic disability theater is a relatively new and interesting field of disability research. In this article, the authors provide an overview of the field of disability theater in a Nordic context.

The article describes the concept and work with an inclusive choir, in which students of the Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences at TU Dortmund University sing together with adult mentally challenged people. The choir ‘Voices’ was founded in 2010, as a part of the project Dortmunder Modell: Musik.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York held its first public exhibition of original art made in its “Seeing Through Drawing” classes.

In this article Teresa Whitehurst and Amy Howells describe how pupils and staff from mainstream and special settings worked together on a project, resulting in a musical performance.