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Challenge: Building best practices for art virtual programming through the lens of diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility.

The Chicago Cultural Accessibility Consortium set out to develop educational content and training for ways community members can increase engagement for individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) through virtual programs. 

Solution: The Resource Key worked with Chicago Cultural Accessibility Consortium to develop a custom workshop. 

The Resource Key worked with Chicago Cultural Accessibility Consortium to align with Engaging Individuals with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities in Virtual Programs Event.  The Resource Key spoke on a panel on the topic Facilitating Meaningful Experiences for All Learners by covering key strategies related to ways to engage individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities in virtual programs.  

Participants of event ranged from cultural administrators from cultural spaces, like museums and theaters., people who work directly with public-facing departments, such as visitor services and front-of-house staff, exhibit designers, educators.

Quote:  "We believe everyone deserves access to Chicago's rich arts and culture."  -Chicago Cultural Accessibility Consortium

Impact: Empowering Chicago’s cultural spaces to become more accessible to visitors with disabilities. They facilitate a dynamic community of cultural administrators and people with disabilities to remove barriers in the Chicago region’s cultural organizations.

Increased awareness of best practices through conversation with attendees globally to provide insights and resources to ensure inclusion and accessibility in the virtual art programming.

Increased partnerships for brands committed to inclusion and accessibility in the arts to continue to expand impact globally with actionable ways to integrate at the core.


Alignment with Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries.

SDG 17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.


A mission to ensure art is inclusive and accessible to all.

Making Meaningful Connections in Virtual Art Programming

Building for the future requires us to take different pieces and combine them with others pieces.

KEY 7. Integration

The Resource Key Joins The Valuable Directory for Disability Inclusion

The Restaurant Redefining How to Build Community

  321 Coffee is a “coffee shop and roaster providing meaningful work opportunities to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.”

Equipping youth to process and tell their stories through photography.

A United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) funded program that provides support, education, and assistance to ranchers and farmers with disabilities.

Providing career skills training and employment services to individuals with disabilities to assist them in developing the skills they will need to secure a career within the entertainment industry earning a competitive wage.

Yes I Can Unity Through Music and Education

Technology-centered inclusion solution and employment platform for job seekers with disabilities, mental health conditions, and chronic illnesses. 

Photography and video exhibit – both online and in-studio – that showcases the food-related stories of eight disabled Canadians, eight Canadians from culturally diverse backgrounds, and eight Cowichan Valley food and beverage producers.

Cowichan Valley Disability, Culture and Food Through Art Exhibit

Input from the disabled community is a critical part of any company’s inclusivity efforts. Here’s how to seek out their perspectives.

How to include workers with disabilities in your DEI initiatives

THE Project Why is what comes to mind when starting, agreeing or pursuing any project.

Events have the capacity to bring about change, to create spaces to develop relationships to bring about change, and gather new information to use to bring about change.

Authentic Representation is so important.  Authentic is key because you can have representation without it being authentic. 

Music can be such a powerful tool for activism in the community, leadership through lyrics, and communicating authentic messages. 

Who are we designing for? What are we considering when we are designing? So many more questions that come to mind when designing and more importantly inclusive and accessible design. 

Stay Connected takes on a whole new meaning depending on the person, context, and environment.

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Making Meaningful Connections in Virtual Art Programming

Challenge: Building best practices for art virtual programming through the lens of diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility.

Solution: The Resource Key worked with Chicago Cultural Accessibility Consortium to develop a custom workshop.

Impact: Empowering Chicago’s cultural spaces to become more accessible to visitors with disabilities. They facilitate a dynamic community of cultural administrators and people with disabilities to remove barriers in the Chicago region’s cultural organizations.

Alignment with Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

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