Addressing accessibility: disability and difference
Gaining steam in the 1980s, the Disability Rights movement included a number of artists and continues to be an art movement in and of itself. This guide is intended to make the history of the movement, its artists, and the intersections of disability studies and visual culture more readily available. If you are having access issues with this page or our website, we would be grateful for your feedback, and you can email us at strangefirecollective@gmail.com.
Conversations on Disability with Oaklee Thiele
Woman Made Gallery, 2020
Regeneration: disability art, activism, and access
400 Gallery, University of Illinois Chicago, 10/16/2018
PUBLICATIONS
Susan Crutchfield and Marcy Joy Epstein, Points of Contact: Disability, Art, and Culture
Elizabeth Howie and Ann Millett-Gallant, Disability and Art History
Kim Q. Hall et al, Feminist Disability Studies
Christine Kelly, Mobilizing Metaphor: Art, Culture, and Disability Activism in Canada
Petra Kuppers, Studying Disability Arts and Culture: An Introduction
Carolyn Lazard, Accessibility and the Arts: A Promise and a Practice
Ann Millett-Gallant, The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art
Mia Mingus, Leaving Evidence
Leroy Moore Jr, Black Disabled Art History 101
Sb Smith, Disabled Voices Anthology
Alice Wexler, Art and Disability: The Social and Political Struggles Facing Education
Bess Williamson, Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design
ARTICLES
Art and Disability: Intersecting Identities among Young Artists with Disabilities, Jennifer Sullivan Sulewski et al.
Artistry and Activism: Building Movement for Disability Justice, Kevin Gotkin for A Blade of Grass
Christine Sun Kim: Too Much Future, Walker P. Downey for ArtPapers
Disability Arts: From the Social Model to the Affirmative Model, Colin Cameron for A Blade Of Grass
Disability in Art History, Keri Watson and Jon Mann for Art History Teaching Resources
How Artists Helped Propel Chicago’s Disability Rights Movement, Claire Voon for Chicago Mag
Metaphors of Malleability: Shawanda Corbett, Jareh Das for BOMB Magazine
Shannon Finnegan and Aimi Hamraie on Accessibility as a Shared Responsibility, Aimi Hamraie for Art In America
Sick Woman Theory, Johanna Hedva for Mask Magazine
'“Sound is Expensive”: An Interview with Christine Sun Kim, Robert Barry for the Quietus
The Politics of Sound: An Interview with Christine Sun Kim, Philomena Epps for Art In America
Chicago Disability Activism, Arts, and Design: 1970s to Today
University of Illinois Chicago 400 Gallery, Sep 14 - Oct 20, 2018
Crip Imponderabilia
New York University Gallatin School, Apr 18 - May 1, 2019
Access Docs for Artists
An online guide to writing access documents for disabled artists.
Black Disabled Creatives
A database of Black disabled creatives of many disciplines founded by Jillian Mercado, Black Disabled Creatives aims to not only offer an accessible platform for hiring personnel, but also to help bridge the divide for creatives with disabilities.
Disability Visibility Project
Disability Visibility Project® (DVP) is an online community dedicated to creating, sharing and amplifying disability media and culture created in 2014. DVP was founded by Alice Wong (she/her), a disabled activist, media maker, and consultant based in San Francisco.
Get Well Soon!
A project by Sam Lavigne and Tega Brain, archiving comments on medical fundraisers on the crowdfunding site GoFundMe. Co-commissioned by Chronus Art Center (Shanghai), Art Center Nabi (Seoul) and Rhizome of the New Museum (New York).
Sins Invalid
Sins Invalid is a disability justice based performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and LGBTQ / gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized. Led by disabled people of color, Sins Invalid’s performance work explores the themes of sexuality, embodiment and the disabled body, developing provocative work where paradigms of “normal” and “sexy” are challenged, offering instead a vision of beauty and sexuality inclusive of all bodies and communities.