Cultural Inclusion Archives - Open Door Arts - An Affiliate of Seven Hills Foundation

Side by side images of the Towards a Culture of Access Parts I and II cover pages. The Part I cover text reads: Towards a Culture of Access Part I: Findings from The Massachusetts Arts and Culture Access Survey 2022 and Part II reads: Towards a Culture of Access Part II: Findings from the Massachusetts Arts and Culture Survey of Individuals with Disabilities. The Open Door Arts and Massachusetts Cultural Council Logos are included.

Towards a Culture of Access Reports

Dear friends, We are thrilled to share the “Towards a Culture of Access” reports with you. This two-part publication reveals insights on the state of accessibility in the arts and culture sector in Massachusetts. Part I was published in 2022 and shared the perspectives of…

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A black and white portrait of Megan Bent. She has pale skin and dark bangs sweeping over her forehead. Most of her face is in a light shadow and the sun illuminates one eye

Welcoming Megan Bent to our Team!

We are excited to share that Megan Bent has joined the Open Door Arts team as our new Gallery and Communications Specialist! Megan joins Open Door Arts after being an exhibiting artist with us at the Open Door Gallery at Worcester…

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ODA is looking for consultants and advisors!

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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Blue and teal graphic featuring a circular head shot of Hannah Goodwin, a white woman with short light hair smiling with long silver earrings and the text: Hannah Goodwin: Cultural Access and Inclusion Specialist (Part time)

Welcoming Hannah Goodwin to our Team!

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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An image of Mehdi Raoufi, a man with dark hair, a moustache and goatee wearing dark rimmed glasses and smiling at the camera

Welcome our new Director of School Programs: Mehdi Raoufi!

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

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

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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A colorful painting made up of dots depicting a field at sunset with trees in the background and one tall tree in toward the center.

Artist Spotlight: Bethany Noël Murray

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

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

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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