Tangled Art + Disability is dedicated to connecting professional and emerging artists, the arts community, and a diverse public through creative passion and artistic excellence. Our mission is to support Disabled, d/Deaf, chronically ill, neurodiverse, k/crip, Mad, sick & spoonie artists; to cultivate Disability Arts in Canada; and to increase opportunities for everyone to participate in the arts. We do this by:

• Publicly showcasing the rich diversity of talent from the Disability Arts community.
• Developing, showcasing, promoting, and employing Disabled artists;
• Creating partnerships and collaborations that increase opportunities for Disabled artists;
• Empowering Deaf, Mad, and Disability-identified people to embrace and explore their own creativity;

The Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf (CCSD), a registered non-profit organization since 1973, recognized as one of Canada’s national arts service organizations, has received numerous awards for its Deaf arts productions. 

One of our core mandates is to feature and foster high quality Deaf visual and performing artists’ work to significantly increased audiences, with increased numbers of artist works, increased and strengthened partnerships to build and solidify capacity and our place in the arts ecosystem.  Our new headquarter is now the Deaf Culture Retreat Centre, a 4-acre retreat venue in Grande-Digue, New Brunswick, also a home of the Deaf Arts Academy, a training for the next generation of professional Deaf visual and performing artists.

The National accessArts Centre (NaAC) presented by TD Ready Commitment, formerly known as the In-Definite Arts Society that was founded in 1975, was created in 2020 following the amalgamation of In-Definite Arts with its sister disability arts organizations Momo Movement and Artistic Expressions. As Canada’s first multidisciplinary disability arts company, the NaAC provides artistic training, creation, and exhibition/presentation opportunities for artists with developmental, physical, and acquired disabilities.

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OCAD University is Canada’s largest and oldest art, design, and media university, dedicated to nurturing creativity, innovation, and critical inquiry. OCAD U supports emerging and established artists and designers in building meaningful and sustainable careers within the creative economy. Through studio-based learning, professional development programs, and community partnerships, the university provides students and alumni with the tools and opportunities to develop their practice and share their work with the world.

Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECU) is where creativity meets practice. As Canada’s leading art and design university, ECU offers hands-on, practice-based learning that equips students to experiment, take risks and drive innovation.

Since 1925, ECU has championed bold ideas and emerging talent through a close-knit, interdisciplinary environment that connects students with award-winning faculty, cutting-edge facilities, studio spaces and real-world opportunities. Based in Vancouver, ECU serves more than 2,400 undergraduate and graduate students, with thousands more engaged through continuing studies.

As we celebrate a century of creative leadership, we continue to ask what art and design can make possible. 100 years in the making, we are shaping what comes next.