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Highlights: Disability Arts Exhibition 2026
14 Feb – 14 Mar 2026
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- Free
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- Arts Centre Washington
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Event description
Highlights: Disability Arts Exhibition 2026 celebrates the creativity, imagination and expression of deaf, disabled and/or neurodivergent artists aged 16–25 who live, study and/or work in Sunderland.
All artists who submitted are featured in the online exhibition, providing an inclusive opportunity for young artists to showcase their work and share their perspectives. The exhibition aims to highlight the diversity of talent and provide a platform for young disabled and neurodiverse artists to be seen and celebrated in a supportive environment.
The theme of this year’s exhibition is ‘Challenges, Celebrations and Connections’. Artists were asked to interpret this theme in any way that was meaningful to them.
- Challenge – physical, health, emotional, social, or accessibility challenges
- Celebrations – achievements, resilience, overcoming barriers, celebrating personal or community strengths
- Connections – to family, to friends, the planet, nature, to other times, places, hobbies, interests
The in-person exhibition at Arts Centre Washington allows you to see the young peoples work up-close.
Highlights: Disability Arts Exhibition 2026 is part of the Autonomy project. The Autonomy project is generously supported by the Association of Independent Museums (AIM) Connected Communities programme, which is funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s Know Your Neighbourhood Fund, through Arts Council England.
