NDACA
The National Disability Arts Collection and Archive (NDACA) is the first initiative to bring together a public collection of artworks that celebrate Disability Arts and an archive to hold important information relating to Disability Arts. This initiative will be developed at Holton Lee in Dorset.
The archive will have a physical presence in the form of a new architecturally innovative and accessible building. Additionally the physical archive and building will be supported by a dispersed archive and a comprehensive and interactive website and online database to create a ‘virtual’ archive called NDACAweb.
NDACA will track the key developments within the Disability Arts movement since its beginnings in the early 1980s. This will help to bring about an understanding of the history and culture of the movement, which has great significance to Disabled people.
The collection will hold important objects including paintings, sculpture, literature, poetry, film, performance, dance, drama and related ephemera which express disability, through Disability Arts, within a social and political context.
NDACA has three main aims:
1) To build up a collection of work, predominantly artwork, of national significance and to create an interactive website called NDACAweb.
2) To archive and catalogue items and information relating to Disability Arts, including materials created by individuals, groups, and organisations working in the field of Disability Arts.
3) To use the collection and archive as an educative resource for scholars and the general public to learn about Disability Arts heritage and wider issues relating to Disability within a social and political context.
The resource will give wide public access to Disability Arts for the very first time developing a greater understanding of the impact of the arts on Disability culture.
