Deaf and Disabled Artist Employment: Research on Work
How does employment support the lives and careers of Deaf and disabled artists in New York State? This project offers context, data, and analysis from the Artist Employment Program.
This report seeks to:
- Identify and reflect on the contexts for Deaf and disabled artists’ employment
- Share knowledge about the unique experiences of Deaf and disabled artists in CRNY’s Artist Employment cohort
- Highlight the successes and challenges of the program
- Inform those seeking to design new employment programs
It is written for artists, employers, funders, policy-makers, and arts workers/administrators, especially those who are creating, sustaining, and/or evaluating artist employment programs.
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To put it simply: work doesn’t work for everyone. And when work works, its success is often predicated on structural inequities.
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