Everybody who seeks to engage with the arts should be able to experience and enjoy them. However, for those with disabilities, physical and online spaces are often inaccessible and even unwelcoming.
The SCAC believes that when you know better you can do better. To that end, along with our partners Able South Carolina, we are presenting an informative webinar series designed for arts organizations around topics of accessibility for people with disabilities. Able SC is a consumer-controlled, community-based, cross-disability nonprofit that seeks to make South Carolina a national model of equity and inclusion for all people with disabilities. Learn more about Able SC on their website.
Representatives from Able SC will be hosts of the webinars. SCAC grantees and non-grantees alike are welcome to register and take part.
Discover practical strategies for making arts and cultural spaces more inclusive!
Columbia Museum of Art and the Morris Center for Lowcountry Heritage are two organizations leading the way in making the arts more accessible. Register to learn how CMA’s Touch Tours bring art to life for visitors who are blind or have low vision and how the Morris Center’s audio description services enhance engagement for all audiences.
with Glenna Barlow, Curator of Education, Columbia Museum of Art
and Kayleigh Vaughn, Executive Director, Orangeburg County Fine Arts Center (formerly with Morris Center for Lowcountry Heritage)
an artist spotlight with Keith Wann, CODA Artist (Children of Deaf Adults)
Join us for our Artist Spotlight as we feature Keith Wann and learn about his journey in storytelling and performing as he bridges a hilarious gap between the deaf and hearing worlds.
About the ArtistKeith Wann is an acclaimed American Sign Language (ASL) performing artist who has been captivating and amusing audiences with his controlled chaos and total pandemonium comedy explosions on stage, often leaving his laughing audiences gasping for breath. Wann has quickly established a reputation for his wacky, off-the-wall stories that ring true with CODAs everywhere and are equally funny for other members of the deaf community, including his parents.
Born hearing to deaf parents in Northern California, Keith grew up living in both the hearing and deaf worlds, and has been able to create unique perspectives on the ways of both worlds. This has evolved into a one-man show, “Watching Two Worlds Collide,” which takes a humorous, almost shocking, look at both worlds.
Combining side-splitting physical humor, with heartfelt real life stories from his childhood as a hearing child with deaf parents, has become his comedic trademark among the ASL Community, and is an original breakthrough performing ASL artist who has been featured in several short films with ASL and ASL Children’s app called Signed Stories (ITV). He has also done several commercials for Pepsi, appeared in “High Maintenance,” “Quantico,” “Law and Order,” and several short films.
I’m here to help!For assistance and information, please contact Arts Learning & Accessibility Director Amanda Noyes (803.734.8675 | anoyes@arts.sc.gov).