Over the past four years I have had the incredible opportunity to produce lectures on disability in the fine arts at San Francisco\u2019s de Young Museum. The museum is housed in a new lavish, cutting edge building. In my typical fashion I had forgotten to document them until a couple of months ago. So, this is to make up for that lack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DISABILITY CULTURE LECTURE SERIES<\/strong> The Disability Culture Lecture Series evolved into a means to bring disability arts and culture into the offerings of the de Young Museum. The focus has been disability\u2014defining disability as a positive cultural identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Presentations<\/strong> October 2, 2010<\/strong> Access Advisors Open House and Disability Arts Festival, 2010 Toulouse-Lautrec and Disability Culture Anthony Tusler, The paintings and posters of Henri Toulouse-Lautrec as deciphered by 21st-century disability culture. Live Nude Girl written and performed by Ann Colby Stocking, Koret Auditorium<\/p>\n\n\n\n March 31, 2012<\/strong> Access Advisors Open House and Disability Arts Festival, 2012 From the Doctor\u2019s Office to the Art Gallery: Sandie Yi\u2019s Radical Vision of Beauty, Sandie Yi, Amanda Cachia, and Anthony Tusler, Koret Auditorium<\/p>\n\n\n\n October 13, 2012<\/strong> Chuck Close, Prosopagnosia, and Pixels Amanda Cachia with introduction by Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Koret Auditorium<\/p>\n\n\n\n May 25, 2013<\/strong> Rembrandt\u2019s Beggars and the Representation of Disability and Poverty Susan Schweik, Koret Auditorium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the past four years I have had the incredible opportunity to produce lectures on disability in the fine arts at San Francisco\u2019s de Young Museum. The museum is housed in a new lavish, cutting edge building. In my typical fashion I had forgotten to document them until a couple of months ago. So, this […]<\/p>\n
The Disability Culture Lecture Series began as a way to highlight disability arts and culture at the de Young Museum\u2019s annual Disability Advisors Open House. The idea for a disability culture lecture series started informally. Tish Brown, who was then leading disability access for the museum, and I brainstormed ideas for ways to bring more disability culture to the Open House. I suggested my lecture on disability and music. That initial lecture drew over 100 people to the Piazzoni Mural Room, and attracted a number of disability scholars from the Bay Area. The success of the lecture led to incorporating a disability culture lecture into the Open Houses on a regular basis. In addition to the Open Houses, a number of lectures were added as different exhibits were shown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
March 28, 2009<\/strong> Access Advisors Open House and Disability Arts Festival, 2009 Goin\u2019 to the Dance: Disability & Desire Disability Culture Presentation. Anthony Tusler<\/p>\n\n\n\n