Links


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Art and MCS

http://www.artheals.org - The Arts and Healing Network
An online resource about the healing potential of art. This site includes healing artist pages, community based projects, a monthly newsletter, a bulletin board, grants, links, books and more.

http://www.citlink.net/~bhima/index.htm
The homepage of our member Mary Kim Kempf is a great collection of resources about MCS and all related problems. Mary takes care about the many sides of an MCS-life.

http://www.kimpalmersongs.com
The homepage of our member Kim Palmer provides information about her musical career, her MCS experiences - and it also offers the opportunity to listen to some of the wonderful and courageous songs she composed. You can view the contents of the CD's Kim as a one-woman-band produced single-handedly.

http://www.sharonwachsler.com
Sharon Wachsler is an author with MCS and a member of our network. She published uncountable essays and short stories and won many awards. Besides of that, she is chief editor of Breath and Shadow, a new online magazine for disabled people which only publishes disabled authors. Sharon also gives writing courses and service dog training.

http://www.abilitymaine.org
AbilityMaine is a Massachusetts based online-magazine on disability issues. One of the great inventions here is the humor columns of our member Sharon Wachsler - because Sharon has got the guts to combine disabilty and humor in a very fine way. Sharon also is chief editor and initiator of Breath and Shadow.

http://www.abilitymaine.org/breath
This online Magazine for disabled people is provided with text by disabled authors only - a total novum. The magazine was initiated by the team of AbilityMaine and our member Sharon Wachsler. It publishes literature of high quality.

http://www.susanabod.com
Susan Abod produced a very successful video about her personal experiences with MCS and a CD with beautiful songs. She is now working on her second video, which will be about safe iful songs. She is now working on her second video, which will be about safe housing. Susan is a member of our network since 2002 and sometimes gives concerts in safe surroundings in the Boston area.

http://www.moonmcneill.de (German Homepage)
The personal homepage of German network President Moon McNeill informs about the network, its members and MCS, CFS and Fibromyalgia and also gives some insight into her work as author and painter. Moon regularly is author for the online-magazine "Wirtschaftswetter" , she is initiator and moderator of a German MCS-Chatgroup in Yahoo, called "MCS-Netzwerk" and was chosen to be a member of the disability advisory board in her German hometown.

http://www.bodyearthself.com
The homepage of our member Dayna Colvin

http://www.artbyalexa.com
The homepage of our member Alexandra Henry in Dallas, textile artist.

http://www.healthyhighway.com
The homepage of our member Leesa A. Wheeler, poet.

http://www.PlanetThrive.com
"A grassroots community for personal wellness, with a focus on environmental
and other chronic illnesses. Offers many opportunities for creative
expression including personal healing blogs, community photo albums, and an
art and word gallery featuring works that reflect the experience of chronic illness."

http://www.kuenstler-extra.de (German Homepage)
The German online gallery of Lutz Delitzsch presents artists with disabilities only. As the first online-gallery ever, kuenstler-extra presents work of two German MCS-painters, namely Isabella Kloefer and Moon McNeill, who are members of our network.

http://www.krank-und-kunst.de (German Homepage)
Isabella Kloefer got MCS when she was a child, at age four. As early as that she also started painting and sketching to express herself. In the meantime she is a member in our network and had a solo exhibition.

http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Mar/03212004/arts/arts.asp
http://www.artistsofutah.org/newsletter/03mar/page1.html
These articles about MCS-painter Holly Mae Pendergast from Utah show that a painter with MCS can be very successful and also do something about the public ignorance existing when it comes to MCS. It is very important that more artists with MCS inform the public about the dangers of MCS, no matter what kind of art they are involved in.

http://faculty.washington.edu/bnaidus/
http://faculty.washington.edu/bnaidus/bio.html
http://www.artincontext.org/artist/n/beverly_naidus/ selected_exhibitions.htm
Over the past two decades Beverly Naidus' art has dealt with personal and social concerns, including MCS issues. Her mediums have ranged from interactive, site-specific installations to digitally rendered artist's books. Beverly Naidus' work has been exhibited internationally and her work has also been discussed in many journals and newspapers. After two decades working in the New York and Los Angeles art worlds, Beverly spent eight years in the rural village of Shelburne Falls, MA, focusing more intensely on her art practice, writing and spiritual growth. She recently moved to Vashon Island, WA and has begun work with the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program of the University of Washington, Tacoma to co-create an interdisciplinary arts program.
Safer art material

Warning: These resources were NOT specifically written for MCS-artists. However, if we do not care for the basic safety precautions and if we do not know where the basic dangers are, we allow that many more people who are completely ignorant of safety precautions, will also get MCS or similar illnesses in the long run.

Information and resources on Health hazards, Wallace Library, Rochester Institute of Technology
http://wally.rit.edu/pubs/guides/healthhaz.html

Guidelines for the safe use of art materials from the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), California
http://www.oehha.ca.gov/education/art/index.html

Health and Safety Code from OEHHA
http://www.oehha.ca.gov/education/art/hsc1805.html

Health and Safety Bulletin UW La Crosse - Article by Dan Sweetman
http://www.uwlax.edu/ehs/arthaz.html

Exposing ourselves to Art - by Scott Fields
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1997/105-3/focus.html

About Organic Solvent Neurotoxicity
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/87104_48.html

About Organic Solvent Neurotoxicity
http://www.whis.nzl.org/newsletters/neurotox2.html

About Toxicity of Terpenes
http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/byname/toxicity-terpene.htm

About safe honey-based watercolors
http://bassartsupplies.com/watercolors.htm

ACTS Arts, Crafts, Theatre Safety
http://www.caseweb.com/acts

Art Safety Training Guide from the Princeton University
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/ehs/artsafety/sec4.htm

Art Safety Training Guide from the Princeton University on Painting and Drawing
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/ehs/artsafety/sec10.htm

Art Safety Training Guide from the Princeton University on Photography
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/ehs/artsafety/sec11.htm

Art Safety Training Guide from the Princeton University on Ceramics
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/ehs/artsafety/sec12.htm

Art Safety Training Guide from the Princeton University on Sculpturing
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/ehs/artsafety/sec14.htm

Books on Safe Arts
http://www.trueart.info/health_books.htm
Art and Disability groups
International

http://www.igodap.org - International Guild of Disabled Artists


Canada
http://www.creativespirit.on.ca - Creative Spirit Art Centre/VSA ARTS Ontario
http://www.s4dac.org - Society for Disability Arts and Culture (S4DAC)
http://www.reachdisability.org/vams - Vancouver Adapted Music Society (VAMS)
Chile

http://www.geocities.com/tucrea/ - Creaciones Tulipán
Germany

http://www.paraCultura.com - PARA Cultura e.V.
http://www.kuenstler-extra.de - Künstler Extra Vermittlungsagentur
http://www.eucrea.de/ - EUCREA e.V.

New Zealand

http://www.artsaccess.org.nz - Arts Access Aotearoa - Whakahauhau katoa o hanga
United Kingdom

http://www.21stcenturydawn.netfirms.com - 21st Century D.A.W.N. (Disabled Artist Worldwide Network)
http://www.equata.co.uk - EQUATA Disability Arts Development
http://www.ndaf.org - National Disability Arts Forum
http://www.nwdaf.co.uk - North West Disability Art Forum
http://www.outside-centre.com - Outside Centre
United States of America

http://www.artsforallinc.org - Arts for All Inc
http://www.uic.edu/orgs/dacc - Disability Arts and Culture Center (DACC)
http://members.tripod.com/Dolphin_J/disartportal.html - Disability Arts Links
http://www.disabilityproject.com - Disability Project
http://www.disabilityemployment.org/med_acc.htm - Media Access Office
http://www.ela.org - ELA Foundation
http://www.integratedarts.org - Integrated Arts
http://www.interactcenter.com - Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts
http://www.niadart.org - National Institute for Arts and Disability (NIAD)
http://www.rochestermusiccoalition.org - Rochester Music Coalition
http://www.gosprout.org - Sprout
http://www.vsarts.org - VSA Arts
http://www.vsawis.org - VSA Arts of Wisconsin
http://www.artheals.org - Arts and Healing Network
An online resource about the healing potential of art. This site includes healing artist pages, community based projects, a monthly newsletter, a bulletin board, grants, links, books, and more.

 

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