Abstract
This policy paper was commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kennedy Center. It explores developments in the Americans with Disabilities Act and social security programs that have shaped the education and employment prospects of artists with disabilities in the last ten years. Success in the arts depends on reaching certain benchmarks of excellence and talent, and often people with disabilities are overlooked and under-appreciated for this kind of selective employment. Moving from barriers in higher education to those in employment achievement, the article fills an unmet need in understanding obstacles to coveted, 'elite' jobs by framing those barriers through the example of the arts.
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