Resources

  • Listed below are related sites to artists working with issues related to mental health arts, if you know of another site please email us and we will make it a link on this page.

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    WWW.ABILITIESFESTIVAL.ORG
    A Celebration of Disability Arts and Culture
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    WWW.S4DAC.ORG
    Promoting artistic excellence among artists with disabilities working in a variety of disciplines.
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    WWW.NISA.ON.CA
    NISA (Northern Initiative for Social Action) – NISA is an umbrella group consisting of seven consumer/survivor-run programs based in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada at Network North. The Artist’s Loft: Provides opportunities for consumer/survivor artists to participate in fine arts, develop skills and exhibit their work within the community.
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    WWW.RAWVISION.COM
    Raw Vision Magazine – RAW VISION magazine is going from strength to strength. Founded over seven years ago as a low budget twice-yearly journal it has now developed into a fully fledged, full colour, quarterly publication with an ever increasing subscription base. http://www.dafneblancoART.com
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    WWW.CLA.PURDUE.EDU/WAAW/
    Women Artists of the American West – Women Artists of the American West (WAAW) features the vital contributions that women have made to the art and history of the American west.
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    WWW.PEOPLEWHO.NET/READINGROOM/JBMTI.HTM
    The MadGrrls List – Women who have mood swings, fear, voices and visions, and the Internet.
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    WWW.MADNATION.CC
    Mad Nation – People Working Together for Social Justice and Human Rights in Mental Health.
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    WWW.WOMANMADE.ORG
    Women Made Gallery – A gallery that supports women in the arts by providing opportunities, awareness, and advocacy.
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    WWW.NYFA.ORG
    Visual Arts Information Hotline – The Hotline empowers visual artists by providing them with complete information about resources to facilitate their work.
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    WWW.ESCAPEARTISTS.CO.UK
    Escape Artists – One who releases or extricates him or herself from confinement, social, mental orphysical, through the application of artistry and imagination.
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    WWW.MENTALWELLNESS.COM
    The Living Museum – It’s not art therapy it’s a living contemporary gallery.
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    WWW.WALNET.ORG/LLF/
    The Lunatics Liberation Front – An information network whose main subject is alternatives to psychiatry.
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    WWW.ANTIPSYCHIATRY.ORG
    The Antipsychiatry Coalition – The Anti-psychiatry Coalition is a nonprofit volunteer group consisting of people who feel we have been harmed by psychiatry.
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    WWW.HOSPAUD.ORG/HAI/
    Hospital Audiences, Inc. – Hospital Audiences, Inc. (HAI) is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1969 to provide access to the arts to culturally isolated New Yorkers.
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    WWW.GEOCITIES.COM/SUECLARK2001CA/
    Sue Clark’s Psychiatry Buster Home Page.
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    THEICARUSPROJECT.NET
    The Icarus Project is creating a new culture and language that resonates with our actual experiences of ?mental illness? rather than trying to fit our lives into a conventional framework.
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    AIMSTEST.CA
    Ron’s new blog site www.aimstest.ca that he started to provide information and news around the topic of mental health which includes housing, employment, alternatives, the arts, etc. Ron used to be the Coordinator of the Vancouver Richmond Mental Health Network and has written a book called The AIMS Test, Mad Pride & Other Essays which he read an excerpt from at the Mad Pride Cabaret in summer 2006, at Gachet.