It’s happening again! I’m giving an updated, improved, higher quality presentation on disability art and art by disabled people. I’ll be showing examples and discussing the various ways works created by disabled people are created and displayed. And, I’ll guide you through my disability art project with disability art shows. […]
I have a rather checkered relationship with tequila. We parted company about 30 years ago, but I still clearly remember how sick I would feel the morning after the night before. […]
There is a whole weekend coming up dedicated to celebrating our disabled hero, Frida Kahlo. It will be here in San Francisco from Friday, July 5 through Sunday July 7, 2013. There are four events planned—all looking like too much fun. More information can be found at Fiestas Frida 2013. […]
I’m puzzled by the new disability movie, “The Sessions.” The movie gives me way too many things to think about—just like life. I’m gratified that a movie about disability gives me so much to ponder. Simply, “The Sessions” presents the day-to-day life of a disabled man and his quest to get laid for the first […]
Don’t miss the newest event in the Access Series on Disability and Art at the de Young Museum Feature by FeatureChuck Close, Prosopagnosia, and Pixels Lecture by Amanda Cachiawith Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Anthony Tusler de young Museum | Koret Auditorium saturday, october 1310:30 a.m., reception following In conjunction with the exhibition Chuck Close and Crown […]
I was reminded again the other day about the etymology of handicapped. Last night I threw together a quick pasta sauce to put over Costco raviolis. Our neighbor has been kind enough to loan use freezer space for small, plastic bags of mooshed-up tomatoes from last summer. The defrosted tomatoes with a little added fresh […]
Telling Our Disability Stories is proud to present Australia’s own Stella Young. Stella Young is a comedian, disability advocate and Editor of the ABC (Australia) Broadcast Corporation’s Ramp Up, the online space for news, discussion and opinion about disability in Australia. She was a two-time state finalist in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s Raw Comedy […]
Sandie Yi’s gloves.PDF FlyerSandie Yi will illustrate and discuss Crip Couture, her collection of disability fashion, at the de Young Museum Access Advisors Open House and Disability Arts Festival, 11–noon, Saturday March 31, 2012, in the Koret Auditorium. Free admission. Yi’s presentation is in conjunction with the exhibition “The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: […]
Here’s a shift. Rather than a death metal band using rude disability imagery, e.g. Cannibal Corpse doing “Rancid Amputation,” here’s an experimental band named An Autumn for Crippled Children.You can find them on the newly resurrected MySpace. […]
For the past few years I’ve been submitting my disability-related photographs—no sunsets, no dappled brooks—to art shows for disabled artists with mixed results. The latest, “Equity for All Artists,” is at Gallery 85 on La Cienega in LA. It’s sponsored by the LA Art Association with a grant from the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. […]