10/02/2026
Dark Room Ballet’s Labor Day campaign continues, with a goal of raising $10,000 by the end of 2026 to support blind and low-vision artists, educators, and administrators and advance employment justice for disabled artists.
Our Labor Day campaign is rooted in the belief that blind and disabled artists deserve meaningful, fairly paid employment. Funds will help us compensate our blind/low-vision teaching artists and administrators, sustain tuition-free classes and workshops for disabled participants, and create opportunities for blind/VI artists to teach, train, create, and perform.
Donate:
www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/donate-to-change-lives-20930
Image Description: White text over black background reads: Dark Room Ballet is the only place where blind and visually impaired adults receive high-quality, pre-professional and professional level education from artists and educators that share their disabilities—tuition free. Below the text, founder Krishna Washburn stands against a white tiled wall in an avant-garde black costume, her face obscured by a sculptural mask with a white cone jutting out where her eyes would be. One hand is raised skyward with fingers spread; the other clutches a black fabric bundle to her chest.
Image Description: A white square card with a quotation in black serif font, centered and framed by a thin horizontal line above and below it. Below the quote is the name “Davian ‘DJ’ Robinson, MFA” in bold, with “Emerging Teaching Artist” beneath it in smaller gray text. The quote reads: “Movement is not inherently incorrect or wrong. Sometimes it is simply not yet understood within the context of the body creating it.”
Our goal is not only to make the arts accessible to disabled people as participants, but to create an arts workplace where blind and disabled people are paid for their expertise, creativity, and labor.
Donate:
www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/donate-to-change-lives-20930
Image Description: a black and white headshot of Davian “DJ” Robinson smiling in front of a white background. Davian is a Black man with buzzed hair and facial hair, wearing a knit sweater.
Image Description: A white square card with a quotation
