Arts Access Aotearoa

Increasing access to the arts

Arts Access Aotearoa works in partnership with others to increase access to the arts for people in New Zealand who experience barriers to participation in the arts and culture as creators, audience members, readers, and gallery and museum visitors. Key stakeholders are people with physical, sensory or intellectual impairments; individuals and organisations in the community and professional arts sectors; and people with lived experience of mental ill-health. We are also the key organisation in New Zealand facilitating the arts as a tool to support the rehabilitative process of prisoners.