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Tag: disability art

  • The Creativity Expo-Brain Injury Arts

    Listen to this post: Art! There is so much art! And there is so much joy in my heart for people who recognize that the art of people with disabilities is art worthy of putting on public display. Last July, I curated the visual arts and music exhibition called “A Different Perspective.” The main purpose…

  • CrissCross Entrepreneurial Development Exchange Sessions for artists with disabilities

    Listen to this post: More great stuff. Always with the more great stuff! I’ve posted about Lavaun Heaster a few times now about her art and about the short student documentary called “Paper Visions” that I made about her last fall. Lavaun has been dedicated to growing her own arts business as well as contributing…

  • Disability Art and Culture Project and Heavy Load

    Listen to this post: You ever heard of that rule about treating others the way you want to be treated? I heard a great take on it last night:  treat others how they want to be treated. This is really a big, recurring theme on this blog. Yet I’d never thought about it in terms…

  • PWD

    Listen to this post: “PWD” is shorthand for “person with a disability.” I saw it a lot when I was studying to become a speech therapist. Abbreviations do make for easier reading. I thought that was a cute term until I became a PWD. Then, it felt objectifying to be an acronym written about in…

  • Short films of fiction and truth

    Listen to this post: We had a great premiere of the three new short films, “The Tablet Shorts, Out.” It was one of the most diverse audiences I’ve had at one of my screenings. One really exciting thing for me as the producer? There were fewer people in the audience with brain injury than people…