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To: All MSAC Grantees
From: Dianne Hood, Program Director, Accessibility Coordinator
We are happy to announce the availability of Design for Accessibility:
an Arts Administrator’s Handbook. This handbook was coordinated
by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the
Humanities, the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, and the John
F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts with assistance from the MetLife
Foundation.
Design for Accessibility: A Cultural Administrator's Handbook represents
an update of the Arts Endowment's The Arts and 504 (1992) with additional
information from the 700-page Design for Accessibility: An Arts Administrator's
Guide produced by the Arts Endowment and NASAA in 1994. This resource
is designed to help organizations not only comply with Section 504 and
the Americans with Disabilities Act, but to assist in making access an
integral part of an organization's planning, mission, programs, outreach,
meetings, budget and staffing.
It is available in the following formats:
Portable Document Form (PDF) at http://www.arts.gov/resources/Accessibility/Design/Accessibility.html and at www.msac.org Maryland
State Arts Council and www.arts.gov National Endowment
for the Arts.
Audio format at www.arts.gov
National Endowment for the Arts
Office for AccessAbility
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20506-0001
202-682-5532 voice
202-682-5496 TTY
202-682-5715 fax
Hard copies may be purchased from:
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA)
1029 Vermont Avenue, NW 2nd Floor
Washington, DC 20005
202-347-6352 voice
202-347-5948 TTY
202-737-0526 fax
A limited number of hard copies are available at the local county arts
council offices.
This handbook is an extremely comprehensive and easy-to-use guide and
will replace the Maryland State Arts Council Guide to Policies and Procedures
Regarding Grantee Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities. We hope
that you will find it helpful as you review and plan your facilities
and programming.
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