bring beauty celebrate community touch the spirit Museums & organizations North Carolina Arts Council www.ncarts.org/arts_directory Links to county arts councils, artists, & artists with disabilities throughout NC. All 50 states have arts councils that are good resources. North Carolina Museums Council www.ncmuseums.org Links to museums statewide, by county & by discipline. Other states have similar organizations. National Endowment for the Arts http://www.arts.gov/resources/accessibility Links to arts service organizations: State accessibility coordinators, Organizations that assist artists with disabilities Paula Terry, NEA Office of Accessibility, terryp@arts.endow.gov Art Education for the Blind www.artbeyondsight.org/change Telephone “crash course” annually in October E-gallery of work by artists who are visually impaired Http: hand.duhs.duke.edu Ph 919-684-6124 Fx 919-613-6600 DUMC 3017. Baker House 295. 200 Trent Drive. Durham NC 27710 Health Arts Network at Duke http://hand.duhs.duke.edu Description of programming including Eye Center’s Touchable Gallery, 6 min. program video North Carolina Arts for Health www.ncartsforhealth.org Links to other arts for health programs in NC, national arts therapy organizations, best practices & more Society for the Arts in Healthcare www.thesah.org 2437 15TH Street, NW Washington, DC 20009 Phone: 202-299-9770 Fax 202-299-9887 Email: mail@thesah.org membership and email newsletter - excellent sources for what’s happening across US and internationally National Assembly of State Arts Agencies www.nasaa.org Links with state arts agencies for clients who live outside of NC