- To provide resources for special needs artists, enabling them to attain self-sufficiency through their chosen educational, vocational, and entrepresneurial ventures within the Visual and Performing Arts.
- To develop, express and portray, within the Visual and Performing Arts, the uniqe visions, perspectives, orientations, and feelings of persons with disabilities.
- To contribute to changing public awareness, perception, understanding, and acceptance of artists with disabilities furthering their inclusion throughout all facets of cultures and societies in countries, nations and the world.
How We Fulfill Our Mission
The Emergent Institute fulfills its mission in several ways.
- We employ people with disabilities.
- We contribute financially to the education of special needs artists through various grants and scholarships.
- We provide opportunities for disabled artists to serve as interns and assistants for The Emergent Institute's many programs and projects.
- We help develop the entrepreneurial skills of disabled artists through professional placement.
- We embrace the uniqueness of each special needs artist as an individual, empowering them to achieve their separate and collective successes.
- We produce publications and documentaries that portray the lives and successes of visual and performing artists with disabilities.
- We work cooperatively with other national and international organizations with similar and complementary missions.
- We provide an example of inclusion that can be emulated by other organizations, institutions, individuals, and countries.
- We produce media materials that inform, educate, and alter public perception regarding artists with disabilities.
- We participate in national and international projects that advocate and promote special needs artists.