Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium

Dear SCAC Community and fellow art-lovers,

2026 marks the 7th anniversary of the Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium’s (SCAC) existence. Since 2019, SCAC has empowered cultural organizations to learn, collaborate, and implement accessibility practices that welcome every member of our community. 

A city’s cultural life is only as healthy as its ability to include everyone. When a theater or gallery is fully accessible, the entire audience benefits from a more vibrant, diverse, and connected experience. 

We are artists, advocates, and cultural workers. Our team is grounded in the expertise of deaf and neurodiverse leaders, parents and guardians of children with disabilities, and artists navigating the creative world in wheelchairs. We are theater managers, museum specialists, and poets who know that a city’s cultural life is only vibrant when it is truly open to everyone. 

This Spring, we are asking you to help us raise $1,500 to maintain and expand the practical tools that make local art possible for everyone, including:

• The Equipment Loan Program (ELP): We are building the library that will provide organizations no-cost access to professional-grade accessibility technology. These are essential tools that ensure a production’s technical design reflects the actual diversity of its audience.
• Audio Description Program (ADP): We have cultivated a new generation of skilled describers. This is a highly-specialized craft, the art of translating the visual world into an immersive auditory experience for the blind and low-vision community. We are launching a pilot program to get these audio describers into arts organizations to start using their skills to benefit blind and low vision patrons.
• Essential Program Access Services: This funds the expert labor of ASL interpreters and CART captioners, and provides speaker stipends that value the expertise of those leading these conversations.

Accessibility is the basis of a healthy community. By investing in these shared resources, you are supporting a movement to ensure our region's cultural life is built by, with, and for all of us. Join us this GiveBIG to make Seattle’s arts accessible to everyone.

Thank you for your support!

The SCAC Team