Tag: disability art

  • Tangled Art + Disability: Bodies of Light film festival

    Listen to this post:  Hurrah! A new film of mine in a film festival! I don’t even want to talk about my film. (I will tell you it’s called “Cat Lady” and is an extended, more experimental version of a 1 minute film on my YouTube by a similar name that I made with no script.…

  • Artist Joy Corcoran Reviews “Neurocomic”

    Listen to this post:  I’ve always quit a book if I don’t like it in the first few pages. I’ve been known to give up within paragraphs. This isn’t because I’m twitchy or antsy. It’s because I know there are more books than I could ever read even if that’s all I do for the…

  • Toni Hickman’s video “People Pleaser”

    Listen to this post:  I cannot even hold onto my horses right now. I’ve let them run free and wild. And that’s because T. Alika Hickman, Krip-Hop Nation artist, documentary filmmaker, author, and speaker has a video out that I need people to get to the nearest computer (of course, you’re already there!) and watch.…

  • Isolation, art, and transformation after brain injury

    Listen to this post:  I wanted to take a some time to sort of unpack this film for you. The meaning of the film and my own politics around disability have changed and grown in the two years we’ve been working on it, which you might not know. If you’ve been following for a while, you might notice…

  • Transforming away from stigma

    Listen to this post:  I spent some time with artist and gallerist Jennifer Pepin today. We met at her gallery, the cozy, modern, and distinct J. Pepin Art Gallery in the Pearl District. On the door is the gallery’s name, logo, and tagline.  [Image description: A glass door reflecting cars parked along the street. Painted on…