The Santa Monica Disabilities Commission is currently seeking 2-dimensional art work (drawing, painting and printed work) created by people who have mental illness for a group exhibit during Mental Health Awareness Month (May). The art will be on display at the Main Santa Monica Public Library for 2 weeks during the month of May, and will […]
Category: Disability Art
2017 Bay Area Disability Arts Holiday Gift Guide
With December and the New Year drawing near and Kislev off to a good start, the season of gift guides is now upon us. Like many marginalized groups, the disability community has started to publish more and more gift guides showcasing products from artists, artisans, and entrepreneurs with disabilities. Now in it’s fourth year, Emily […]
Remembering artist and dancer Lisa Buffano
As the anniversary of the death of artist and dancer Lisa Bufano is upon us, I wanted to highlight her brilliant work and her life by sharing a blog post from December 2013, written by her brother Peter Bufano, with an introduction by Andrea Shea. The post includes a Boston public radio interview from 2007 before […]
Tusler talks photography and disability
You can tell from this portrait of Anthony Tusler as a young man in his wheelchair that he has always been bad-ass and cool. Wearing leg braces with cut-off levis, a wife beater that reveals a tattoo, leather cowboy boots and slicked back hair, he holds a beer in his right hand, leans forward into […]
Axis Dance Report on the Future of Dance
photo description: Title page, The Future of Physically Integrated Dance in the USA showing six energetic, disabled dancers, two wheelchairs and the flatiron Oakland building at Broadway & 16th. http://www.axisdance.org/advocacy/ […]