🌿 Creative Fellowship Opportunity
Plantlife and Screen South’s Accentuate Programme are seeking a disabled artist for a paid fellowship at Ranscombe Farm.
www.plantlife.org.uk/careers/crea...
Fee: £3,575
Deadline: 1 May 2026
#DisabledArtists #CreativeFellowship #NatureAndArt #Plantlife
Access-first VR and 360 virtual tours.
24 March | Folkestone + Live Stream
Panel + hands-on demos + networking.
Tickets via shorturl.at/h2cTs
#CuratingVisibility #DigitalAccess #InclusiveMuseums
📣 Museums across England: we are seeking partners for 2027–2029! Hosts receive a funded disabled curator, training, co-production funding and support to embed access in organisational practice.
🗓 EOI deadline: 30 March
📅 Info session: 3 March
Details via shorturl.at/He7Yy
CREATIVE OPPORTUNITY for a digital designer to develop and deliver a new intervention at London Museum.
Full brief via shorturl.at/QoTIj
#CuratingVisibility #OpenCall #DisabledLed #DisabilityArts #AccessibleDesign
London-based and passionate about access in the arts?
We’re need a Personal Assistant to support Noah Silver at the Museum of London.
£17/hour | 6 hrs/week | until June 2026
Apply by 16 Nov, 5pm → shorturl.at/OIPbL
#LondonArtsJobs #MuseumJobs #DisabilityArts #AccessSupport #FreelanceWork
Get disabled voices front and centre to build accessibility in the heritage sector from the very start.
Our friends museumsandheritage.com want to hear from you ✉️
We’re looking for Disabled Co-Producers to support our Curating Visibility Fellows.
Interested in museums and the stories they tell?
🔗http://alturl.com/rg7pb
@disabilitylab.bsky.social @londonmuseum.bsky.social
@charlestontrust.bsky.social @barnsleymuseums.bsky.social
The panel discussion from the Museums + Heritage Show 2025 is now available to watch online. Ruth Garde from Accentuate and former Curating for Change fellow Kyle Jordan spoke on the panel “Inclusive Career Pathways in Museums and Heritage”. Watch it now: youtu.be/XzlE1aPPAsA
We Will Not Be Left Behind is now live at IWM Duxford. This digital sound piece by Curating Visibility Fellow Cat Waites, Lucia Scazzocchio & DL Williams explores disabled people’s WWII stories via archives and oral histories.Thanks to @artfund.bsky.social @artscouncilengland.bsky.social.
Disability Arts Online is seeking new trustees!
🧩 Join DAO Board of Trustees and make a meaningful impact, using your skills and experience to support a charitable organisation in achieving its mission.
Learn more and apply:
disabilityarts.online/opportunity-...
Deadline: 5pm on Thursday 31 July.
Last Thursday, we launched We Will Not Be Left Behind at IWM Duxford—a digital sound piece by Curating Visibility Fellow Cat Waites, Lucia Scazzocchio and deaf poet DL Williams. Huge thanks to all who came, and our funders @artfund.bsky.social @artscouncilengland.bsky.social for making it possible!
July is #DisabilityPrideMonth 🌈 We’re celebrating disabled voices + thinking about how tech can make museums more inclusive. What tools or ideas would make cultural spaces more accessible to you? Share your thoughts—let’s shape the future together.
Curating Visibility Fellow Anahita Harding worked with co-producers at the Food Museum, to present Food Not Cuts - exploring disabled people’s experience of sourcing, cooking and eating food. Now live at @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social. @artfund.bsky.social @artscouncilengland.bsky.social
Thanks for attending the launch of Food Not Cuts exhibition created by co-producers & Curating Visibility Fellow Anahita Harding at @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social, with audio producer Lucia Scazzocchio. Thanks to @artfund.bsky.social @artscouncilengland.bsky.social for making this exhibition possible.
Congratulations to our Curating Visibility Fellow, Anahita Harding, who has been named the Visual Artist Winner at the London Icons of the Year Awards! Read more about her practice here: shorturl.at/9YtOK
Image credit: Icons London
We want to express our support for deaf, disabled & neurodivergent artists and cultural practitioners in light of the government’s proposed “Pathways to Work” Green Paper. Without Access to Work, we risk increased barriers and reduced employment.
Read our full response here: shorturl.at/VGlUe
On Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Curating Visibility reaffirms our commitment to tackling the under-representation of deaf, disabled & neurodivergent voices in museums—placing lived experience at the heart of workforce, collections & interpretation.
🔍 Object of the Week
This 1789 pewter medallion celebrates King George III’s recovery from illness in 1801. George III’s condition also influenced major changes to British law around mental health and criminality.
📍 Dover Museum. Curated by Karl Mercer
shorturl.at/hxEZP
🔍 Object of the Week
These handmade swimming trunks (1970s) belonged to Scottish long-distance swimmer Bill Stein, who became one of the first disabled people to swim the English Channel in 1979.
📍 Dover Museum. Curated by Karl Mercer
shorturl.at/vVV6g
🔍 Object of the Week: Bartholomew Fair by B.R. Haydon (1786–1846) features rare early depictions of disabled figures, including someone using crutches and a small Black figure, possibly a child or person living with achondroplasia.
📍 @dovermuseum.bsky.social
Curated by @karlantmercer.bsky.social
We’re launching a new branded website for Curating Visibility!
As part of this exciting update, we’re thrilled to announce that our 360° Virtual Tours from our Curating for Change project are now available to view!
Head over and explore the tour here: curatingforchange.org/events/360-v...
Now that we’ve welcomed our final three Curating Visibility Fellows, we’re excited to introduce you to all six Fellows currently shaping the programme. Head to our website and get to know more about them! curatingforchange.org/2025/03/26/m...
We’re partnering with London Museum on a series of short films spotlighting disabled Londoners throughout history.
DYSPLA is now casting for the final role: Billy Waters (1778–1823), a legendary Black, disabled street performer and musician. More info on our website: shorturl.at/y3FnF
Five Curating for Change exhibitions which were displayed at Museum of Liverpool, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, National Railway Museum, York, and Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, are launching online as 360 Virtual Tours.
RSVP to info@accentuateuk.org now 🚀
Final day for all deaf, disabled, or neurodivergent artists to apply for Uncomfortable Bedfellows!
This is an arts-led project exploring disabled experiences in healthcare environments.
Apply now (BSL version available): shorturl.at/fpso5
We inviting you to the online launch of 360-degree virtual tours of five Curating for Change exhibitions. Join us to discover how you can navigate the tours, how they were developed, and how we hope to build further accessibility into them in the future.
2pm, 19 March
RSVP: info@accentuateuk.org
Call out for Curating Visibility Filmmaker! 🎥 We are looking for an experienced filmmaker/editor to capture our project milestones, with a focus on the digital interventions at our six host museums.
Learn more about how to apply: shorturl.at/hfsxI
Deadline: 5pm, 21st March
Are you a deaf, disabled, or neurodivergent artist interested in arts & healthcare? 1 week left to apply for Uncomfortable Bedfellows, a paid online workshop by Accentuate & Screen South exploring disabled experiences in hospitals.
Apply and share your perspective (BSL available): shorturl.at/fpso5
