VSA Missouri offers career development and mentoring for professional and emerging artists with disabilities as well as workshops for educators and cultural institutions on best practices in accessibility.  Email vsamissouri@gmail.com for more information!

"A wonderful mix of poetry, short fiction, and non-fiction essays.  The talent within the collection is intribuing and engaging." 

- Rebecca French Smith, Missouri Life Magazine

Blindness Isn’t Black: an anthology of work

by Missouri writers and artists who have disabilities

Available at:

Left Bank Books, St. Louis

Prosperos Books, Kansas City

“Blindness Isn’t Black” welcomes readers into a diverse world.  One where wheelchair users, people with schizophrenia or retardation, those who are blind and those who are deaf celebrate life and convey the message that they are just as diverse, talented and as creative a bunch of folks as any. Their work does not shy away from exploring some of the depths of frustration inherent in disability experiences, but these writers and artists do not dwell there. 

 Published in March 2009, by VSA Missouri, this publication is the first effort of its kind in the state.   Watch this page for information about the Blindness Isn’t Black exhibit scheduled to tour the state during the coming year!