How Artists with Disabilities Fit into the Greater Art World
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, December 10th, from 10AM - 12:30PM
Artists First Conversations:
Inclusivity for Artists with Disabilities
How Artists with Disabilities Fit into the Greater Art World
Artists First Conversations: Inclusivity for Artists with Disabilities is a three-part symposium series held in tandem with the Chicago Cultural Center exhibition Artists First: 25 Years of Studio Art at Thresholds. The primary goals of the symposium series are to increase scholarship in the field of self-taught art made by artists with neurodevelopmental and mental health disabilities, with a focus on community receptivity historically and currently, and to strengthen partnerships nationally and internationally in continuing the exchange of art and ideas.
The symposium’s panels will delve into 1) the relationship between art making and mental health, 2) the ethics of exhibiting artists with neurodevelopmental and mental health disabilities, and 3) how artists with disabilities fit into the greater art world.
“How Artists with Disabilities Fit into the Greater Art World” will be hybrid with an in-person panel at the Claudia Cassidy Theater at the Chicago Cultural Center (78 E. Washington Street, Chicago, IL 60602); the symposium will conclude with a Q&A with the panelists. Light refreshments will be available before (10–10:30 a.m.) and after (12–12:30 p.m.) the panel. Attendees from afar can tune into the livestreamed 90-minute discussion from 10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. (noon) central on Zoom.
The Chicago Cultural Center is wheelchair accessible and offers accommodations for attendees who are D/deaf or hard-of-hearing and or are blind or low-vision. American Sign Language interpretation will be available for in-person attendees upon request, and closed captions will be available for virtual attendees. Please contact Eva Baldinger at eva@art.org with requests for American Sign Language interpretation by Tuesday, December 6, or with questions related to accessibility accommodations at the symposium series.
The Artists First Conversations symposium series is free! Reserve tickets to the third panel on Eventbrite.
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Panel moderator
- Faheem Majeed, artist and art education instructor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Panelists
- Leslie Baum, Director of the Open Art Studio at Thresholds Bridge South
- Cherylle Booker, artist
- Robyn Jablonski, Creative Director at Project Onward
- Mary Trent, Assistant Professor of Art and Architectural History at the College of Charleston
Symposium series co-chairs
- Leslie Baum, Director of the Open Art Studio at Thresholds Bridge South
- Michael Bonesteel, Contributing Editor at Raw Vision and independent writer, scholar and curator
- Dr. Scott J. Hunter, developmental neuropsychologist and curator of Artists First: 25 Years of Studio Art at Thresholds
- Debra Kerr, President and CEO at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
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