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Disability. Disability in the arts is an aspect within various arts disciplines of inclusive practices involving disability. It manifests itself in the output and mission of some stage and modern dance performing-arts companies, and as the subject matter of individual works of art, such as the work of specific painters and those who draw.
Lois Jeanette Curtis (14 July 1967 – 3 November 2022) was an American artist and the lead plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court case that became known as the Olmstead Decision in which the court held that the unjustified segregation of people with disabilities was discriminatory, and a breach of the Americans with Disabilities Act .
Website. www .katherinesherwood .com. Katherine Sherwood is an American artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area, California who is known for paintings that explore disability, feminism, and healing, and for her teaching and disability rights activism at the Department of Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley.
Opening Wednesday, "Creative Power" is a traveling exhibition of work by professional and amateur artists living in Wisconsin with disabilities. Thirty pieces in a variety of media – paintings ...
Disability art is a concept which was developed out of the disability arts movement. In the disability arts movement disability art stood for "art made by disabled people which reflects the experience of disability." To be making disability art in the disability arts movement it is conditional on being a person with a disability.
Sunaura Taylor. Sunaura "Sunny" Taylor (born March 21, 1982) is an American academic, painter, writer and activist for disability and animal rights. She currently resides in Oakland, California, and is assistant professor in the department of environmental science, policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. [ 1]
The National Disability Arts Collection and Archive (NDACA) is a British collection focusing on Disability Arts which opened in 2019. It consists of an online collection and a facility at the High Wycombe campus of Buckinghamshire New University, and features over 3500 objects. [1] The project is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund ...
Riva Lehrer (born in 1958 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American painter, writer, teacher, and speaker. Lehrer was born with spina bifida and has undergone numerous surgeries throughout her life. [1] Her work focuses on issues of physical identity and how bodies are viewed by society, especially in explorations of cultural depictions of disability.