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Category: Cultural Inclusion

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comment box graphic with the text "we're looking for advisors, consultants, and user experts with a wide range of personal, professional and lived experience in arts and culture and disability"

ODA is looking for consultants and advisors!

Posted on: March 2, 2023 Last updated on: March 2, 2023 Written by: vsa4mass Comments: 0
For the next 5 months, Open Door Arts will work with Mass Cultural Council to learn more about our community of disabled artists, patrons, and arts and culture organizations to help make our sector more accessible, inclusive, and representative of people with disabilities. We’re…
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Welcoming Hannah Goodwin to our Team!

Posted on: January 12, 2023 Last updated on: February 16, 2023 Written by: vsa4mass Comments: 0
We are thrilled to announce that Hannah Goodwin has joined the Open Door Arts team as our new Part- time Cultural Access and Inclusion Specialist!   Hannah will be supporting ODA in our efforts to help  the arts and culture sector in Massachusetts to become…
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Cover image of the 2022 Towards a Culture of Access Report: Findings from the Massachusetts Arts and Culture Access Survey. White text appears over a blue brush stroke background. The Open Door Arts and Mass Cultural Council logos are at the bottom of the page.

Towards a Culture of Access Report 2022

Posted on: December 2, 2022 Last updated on: December 5, 2022 Written by: vsa4mass Comments: 0
Dear friends, It is with so much gratitude and excitement that we share the “Towards a Culture of Access” Report, with findings from the Massachusetts Arts & Culture Access Survey conducted by Open Door Arts in 2021-2022.  The report reveals valuable information to…
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Welcome our new Director of School Programs: Mehdi Raoufi!

Posted on: August 1, 2022 Last updated on: August 1, 2022 Written by: vsa4mass Comments: 0
We are thrilled to share the news that Mehdi Raoufi has joined the Open Door Arts team as our new Director of School Programs! Mehdi joins Open Door Arts after serving as the Community Outreach Manager and various other roles for…
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“Light Amongst Darkness”: Light brown paint that swirls in different directions with some white and light blue paint mixed throughout.

Artist Spotlight: Hadassah Chavivah Zeltzer

Posted on: May 6, 2022 Last updated on: May 9, 2022 Written by: vsa4mass Comments: 2
We are shining our Artist Spotlight on Hadassah Chavivah Zeltzer! Hadassah is based in Brookline, MA and her body of work includes fine art, graphic art for her business and award-winning short film, music catalog, and spiritual product called The…
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A thin wobbly panel stretched from the top of the page to the bottom, with a watercolor and pencil painting of part of a face in it. The image shows an ear, the shadows between folds purple and red. A creased neck and cheek in orange and purple. And the dark purple and red shadow around an eye, just a corner of the white of the eye visible. To the right it says "but I can't carry my weight", and a little lower "I can't"

Artist Spotlight: Kimball Anderson

Posted on: April 4, 2022 Last updated on: April 4, 2022 Written by: vsa4mass Comments: 0
Next up in our Artist Spotlight is Kimball Anderson, a long time friend of Open Door Arts, and featured artist at the Open Door Gallery in Boston. Kimball makes comics for “people who fell off of the conveyor belt of…
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Artist Spotlight: Bethany Noël Murray

Posted on: March 1, 2022 Last updated on: March 9, 2022 Written by: vsa4mass Comments: 0
This month, we’re thrilled to share the work of Bethany Noël Murray, who exhibited her show “Brains are Cool, Even When They Hurt” in our Open Door Gallery in Boston as part of the series, “Prisms: Perspectives on Hidden Disability”…
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Chlorophyll print on calla lily leaves, ID: Two calla lily leaves placed horizontally on a black background. On each leaf, printed in the chlorophyll, is a cascading series of my shadow as I walk.

Artist Spotlight: Megan Bent

Posted on: January 5, 2022 Last updated on: January 5, 2022 Written by: vsa4mass Comments: 0
Meet our next featured artist- Megan Bent! Megan was getting ready to install work from Latency at the Open Door Gallery in Boston when the pandemic started and her exhibition had to be put on hold. We are so grateful…
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Artist Spotlight: Dominic Killiany

Posted on: December 13, 2021 Last updated on: December 13, 2021 Written by: vsa4mass Comments: 0
This month we are excited to feature artist Dominic Killiany! Dominic is a 23 year old young man with autism whose interpretation of the world reflects his knowledge of order, balance and symmetry with a touch of abstract expressionism in…
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Artist Spotlight: Xi Nan

Posted on: November 22, 2021 Last updated on: December 1, 2021 Written by: vsa4mass Comments: 0
We are thrilled to introduced this month’s featured artist, Xi Nan. Xi Nan was born and raised in Jilin, China. She was selected nationally from China Disabled Person Federation to study abroad at RCN United World College in Norway and…
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