Download or read book INSIDE THEIR STUDIO Artists with Disabilities and Their Collaborators written by Aleatha Lindsay and published by . This book was released on 2020-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSIDE THEIR STUDIO: Artists with disabilities and their collaborators, is the first installment of The Ikouii Book Project. The project connected us with disability identified artists all over the world. Represented in this project are artists who practice in a variety of mediums, across 5 continents, 10 countries, 13 disciplines, and 17 disabilities. Represented artists practice in a variety of mediums, at various stages in their art careers and share a piece of their worlds. The project gives a rare glimpse inside their studios, their inspirations, and their personal journeys.
Download or read book INSIDE THEIR STUDIO Deaf Disabled Artists Reshaping the Arts written by The Ikouii Creative and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSIDE THEIR STUDIO: Deaf & Disabled Artists Reshaping the Arts is a publication that brings together artists living with disabilities who practice in a range of mediums and provides a rare glimpse into the artists' studio practices, inspirations and personal journeys. Features artists living with disabilities from differing communities, including but not limited to those belonging in the BIPOC, LGBTQIA, and Neurodivergent communities. This is the 2nd edition of an ongoing book project by The Ikouii Creative.
Download or read book Collaboration in a Makerspace for Artists with Dis abilities written by Rebecca Beaird and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis research investigated an accessible model of collaboration within a makerspace, in hopes to expand upon art programs for adults with disabilities. This model aimed to take into account the various perspectives and needs of the artists to plan a program. This study followed the main research question: How can a collaborative relationship within a makerspace of adult artists with dis/abilities impact art programming? My research further explored the dynamics of collaboration through the following three sub questions: How can collaboration foster accessible pedagogy? In what ways do members of the community inform the organic development of programming? As an art educator, how does participation with the artists at the makerspace improve my understanding of this community and inform future practice? This research took place with the artists at a makerspace for adult artists with cognitive disabilities or mental illnesses in the Bridgeport neighborhood of South Chicago. Of the 35 practicing artists within the community, 16 participated on the "book team"--All were native to Chicago and over the age of twenty. Their preferred media ranged from graphite to cardboard. Over the course of four months, the "book team" designed an artist book including art and/or writing from all participating artists. The project began with conversations about interests and ideas, Leading to the decision to make an artist book. The artists worked collaboratively on the format, title, cover and each contributed their own "Chicago story". The book was printed in an edition of 40 and sold to fund future collaborative projects. The research utilized action based and arts based methodologies. These were chosen due to their flexibility, cyclical nature, and appropriateness for the needs of the community. I used a strategy of reflect, act and evaluate which parallels other collaborative models. Throughout the process I collected qualitative data in the form of journal reflections and recorded conversations, both verbal and visual. As a result of this thesis project, I came to better understand the dynamics within the makerspace and its many positives and negatives. I also found that the hierarchy within the organization affected the program more than anticipated, causing me to continually question the presence of agency and power with participants and myself. As a recommendation to the field, I have visually outlined an accessible collaborative model to explain my process and how It can invite more voices to the table for unforeseen results.
Download or read book Contemporary Art and Disability Studies written by Alice Wexler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents interdisciplinary scholarship on art and visual culture that explores disability in terms of lived experience. It will expand critical disability studies scholarship on representation and embodiment, which is theoretically rich, but lacking in attention to art. It is organized in five thematic parts: methodologies of access, agency, and ethics in cultural institutions; the politics and ethics of collaboration; embodied representations of artists with disabilities in the visual and performing arts; negotiating the outsider art label; and first-person reflections on disability and artmaking. This volume will be of interest to scholars who study disability studies, art history, art education, gender studies, museum studies, and visual culture.
Download or read book Artistic Research in Performance through Collaboration written by Martin Blain and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the issue of collaboration: an issue at the centre of Performance Arts Research. It is explored here through the different practices in music, dance, drama, fine art, installation art, digital media or other performance arts. Collaborative processes are seen to develop as it occurs between academic researchers in the creative arts and professional practitioners in commercial organisations in the creative arts industries (and beyond), as well as focusing attention and understanding on the tacit/implicit dimensions of working across different media.
Download or read book Inclusive Arts Practice and Research written by Alice Fox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inclusive Arts Practice and Research interrogates an exciting and newly emergent field: the creative collaborations between learning-disabled and non-learning-disabled artists which are increasingly taking place in performance and the visual arts. In Inclusive Arts Practice Alice Fox and Hannah Macpherson interview artists, curators and key practitioners in the UK and US. The authors introduce and articulate this new practice, and situate it in relation to associated approaches. Fox and Macpherson candidly describe the tensions and difficulties involved too, and explore how the work sits within contemporary art and critical theory. The book inhabits the philosophy of Inclusive Arts practice: with Jo Offer, Alice Fox and Kelvin Burke making up the design team behind the striking look of the book. The book also includes essays and illustrated statements, and has over 100 full-colour images. Inclusive Arts Practice represents a landmark publication in an emerging field of creative practice across all the arts. It presents a radical call for collaboration on equal terms and will be an invaluable resource for anyone studying, researching or already working within this dynamic new territory.
Download or read book Art Is Art written by Ann Kappes and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creativity Explored celebrates its 40th anniversary with a collection of powerful artwork and perspectives from its talented studio artists. This vibrant book uplifts the voices of the artists of Creativity Explored, a nonprofit that gives people with developmental disabilities the opportunity to express themselves through art and share their work with audiences from their local community and in the contemporary art world. This curated collection features more than one hundred original paintings, drawings, illustrations, and sculptures—as well as quotes and stories from the artists—inviting readers to examine and challenge their perceptions about disability. Some artworks are humorous and blunt, while others are affecting and abstract, speaking to the artistic community's diversity and creativity. This book offers an engaging introduction to person-centered thinking for art lovers or anyone interested in learning about disability justice in a visual way. DEMYSTIFYING DISABILITY: This significant new anthology showcases an array of developmentally disabled artists and organizes their works into thematic chapters, such as "Self Medication," "On the Spectrum," "Yes I Do Think About Sex," and "Our Fears." These chapters provide interesting stylistic juxtapositions and personal reflections that highlight both individual and shared experiences as diverse disabled artists. BEAUTIFUL AND CONTENT RICH: This gorgeous hardcover art book features more than one hundred original artworks in full color, from lively portraits and detailed drawings to abstract paintings and captivating illustrations. Quotes, interviews, personal stories, and artist statements also give readers deeper insight into the artists' creative practices, processes, and rituals. This book is a rich visual trove and source of inspiration for any contemporary art lover. SUPPORT A GREAT CAUSE: Creativity Explored was founded in 1983 with the belief that art is essential to life. This book celebrates the organization's mission and its talented artists after forty years of creating impactful arts and career programs with developmentally disabled artists. This collection is a meaningful way to learn more about Creativity Explored and the diverse community it continues to support today. Perfect for: Art lovers and activists People who admire the mission and work of Creativity Explored The disabled community, allies, and educators Gift seekers for family and friends interested in learning more about disability justice Fans of self-taught artists, folk arts, and "outsider art" Contemporary art anthology and art book collectors #OwnVoices readers and anyone interested in diversifying their contemporary art knowledge
Download or read book The Art of Autism written by Debra Hosseini and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Towards Creative Learning Spaces written by Jos Boys and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at relationships between learning and the spaces in which it takes place, this book considers the distinctiveness of post-compulsory education, and what matters about the design of its spaces.
Download or read book Performative Approaches in Arts Education written by Anna-Lena Østern and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Performative Approaches in Arts Education, researchers, artists and practitioners from philosophy and the arts elaborate on what performative approaches can contribute to 21st century arts education. Introducing new perspectives on learning, the contributors provide a central international perspective, developing a paradigm in which the artist, teacher and researcher’s form of teaching is enmeshed with content, and human agency is entangled with non-human matter. The book explores issues connected to both teaching and learning in the arts, engaging in debates about the value of meaning making in the artistic process, the way social ethos can guide performative approaches and the changes in education that performative approaches can bring. Performative Approaches in Arts Education will be of great interest to academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of arts education, philosophy of education and education research methods. It will also appeal to teachers and teacher educators, artists and teaching artists.
Download or read book Moving Over the Edge written by Pamela Kay Walker and published by Michael Horton Media. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability written by Keri Watson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability explores disability in visual culture to uncover the ways in which bodily and cognitive differences are articulated physically and theoretically, and to demonstrate the ways in which disability is culturally constructed. This companion is organized thematically and includes artists from across historical periods and cultures in order to demonstrate the ways in which disability is historically and culturally contingent. The book engages with questions such as: How are people with disabilities represented in art? How are notions of disability articulated in relation to ideas of normality, hybridity, and anomaly? How do artists use visual culture to affirm or subvert notions of the normative body? Contributors consider the changing role of disability in visual culture, the place of representations in society, and the ways in which disability studies engages with and critiques intersectional notions of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality. This book will be particularly useful for scholars in art history, disability studies, visual culture, and museum studies.
Download or read book Collaborations Within and Between Dramatherapy and Music Therapy written by Amelia Oldfield and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this insightful book, Oldfield and Carr draw together persuasive arguments for combining aspects of music therapy and dramatherapy, whilst retaining their unique facets. Building on the many links between music and drama and the compatibility between the two disciplines, the authors explore how artistic aspects of each therapy can be drawn on to create fresh ways of working. This approach enriches the practice of professionals working to support people with special needs, people recovering from trauma and social deprivation and a wide range of other service users. Despite the significant overlap in music therapy and dramatherapy techniques, this is the first book to directly explore the vast potential of elements of the two disciplines being brought together. Covering a range of different perspectives and practice contexts, this book demonstrates just how much the professions can offer each other both from a clinical perspective and from the point of view of training therapists.
Download or read book Doing Disability Differently written by Jos Boys and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking book aims to take a new and innovative view on how disability and architecture might be connected. Rather than putting disability at the end of the design process, centred mainly on compliance, it sees disability – and ability – as creative starting points for the whole design process. It asks the intriguing question: can working from dis/ability actually generate an alternative kind of architectural avant-garde? To do this, Doing Disability Differently: explores how thinking about dis/ability opens up to critical and creative investigation our everyday social attitudes and practices about people, objects and space argues that design can help resist and transform underlying and unnoticed inequalities introduces architects to the emerging and important field of disability studies and considers what different kinds of design thinking and doing this can enable asks how designing for everyday life – in all its diversity – can be better embedded within contemporary architecture as a discipline offers examples of what doing disability differently can mean for architectural theory, education and professional practice aims to embed into architectural practice, attitudes and approaches that creatively and constructively refuse to perpetuate body 'norms' or the resulting inequalities in access to, and support from, built space. Ultimately, this book suggests that re-addressing architecture and disability involves nothing less than re-thinking how to design for the everyday occupation of space more generally.
Download or read book How Art Works written by Chloe Watfern and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From intergalactic travel to the daily commute, enter this book and be transported to wonderful worlds where art and life intertwine and your ideas of both are upended. Chloe Watfern, a writer, transdisciplinary researcher, and maker, joined two world-leading supported studios to learn about the work of their vibrant collectives of neurodiverse artists. At Studio A, Thom Roberts paints, photocopies, animates, and performs, inviting us to understand people as trains and trains as people (among other things). Skye-Fox, a.k.a. Katerina the Steampunk Ringmaster, a.k.a. Skye Saxon, creates interconnected universes through soft sculpture, drawing, and storytelling. Lisa Tindall writes her life breathlessly in piles of notebooks, words from which she stitches into a dress that conveys some of her experiences. At Project Art Works, Kate Adams and her son Paul Colley walk familiar and strange places, capturing them on film. A forest of scribbles emerges in an art museum as people meet through graphite and charcoal on paper. Artists and makers like Tim Corrigan, Sharif Persaud, Carl Sexton, and Sam Smith move in and out of the frame, sharing biscuits, paint brushes, and wildernesses. In this book, written as a personal narrative informed by the latest thinking on neurodiversity and art, Chloe tells a tender and exhilarating story of the social and aesthetic dynamics at Studio A and Project Art Works, places like no other. In journeying alongside the complex and astonishing contemporary artists who work there, the book invites readers to radically reconsider their settled ideas of creativity, disability, and care, while learning about lives devoted to making.
Download or read book Disability Art and Ableism written by Nicola Simpkin-Hill and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand disability requires adaptation and thinking beyond what is normal. There are psychological barriers to disability that run deep into the fabric of society. These barriers are often silent and unspoken, those with disabilities experience feeling shunned from society. It is hard to understand unless you actually experience it yourself. Disability studies are a relatively new field of study emerging in the 1980s; its main concerns are issues relating to those with disabilities. Disability studies has coined the term 'ableism', which is the discrimination against disabled people in society (Millet- Gallant and Howie 2). Ableism describes discrimination against disabled people in favour of able-bodied people, for example; In Felicity Reid's recent article in the North Shore Times; Play date welcomes boy back, she recounts a case of discrimination against six-year old Charlie McKendry who is wheel chair bound with cerebral palsy and his mum Kirsten. The pair were told to leave the Takapuna Beach playground in April 2017, because Charlie had experienced a seizure as they arrived at the park. Reid says, "Two other mothers told McKendry that Charlie, 6, should go away, because he was frightening their children"(1). They did leave, however Kirsten recounted the discriminatory incident to the Hauraki Corner Residents Group Facebook page and received a lot support from the community about the situation (Reid 1). Most ableist attitudes are based on the intolerance of disability by the able-bodied society. Historically, the disabled are seen as a medical issue that has no place in society. This is the kind of attitude that disability studies aims to change. Disability art, too, is a newly recognised field of practice linked to disability studies, as it shares the same concerns. Artists with a disability do not necessarily produce it; however, the role of disability art, it seems, is to be reflexive and challenging to our contemporary society in order to raise awareness of the discriminatory and social identity issues around disability. Disability art is not outsider art, although some outsider artists do fit into this genre. Outsider art recognises artists who are selftaught, often mentally disabled and eccentric or misfits who have no formal training. I define my current field of research and artistic practise as Disability art. Disabled people are a marginalised part of society that need help to become more accepted and recognised as a social identity within society. Such art aims to change society's longheld misconceptions and discrimination against the disabled. I am inspired by the fact that artists have the avenue to seed social change. Art talks without words and the truth is there to see. I also believe the spirit of the artist resides more powerfully in disability art because it is unspeakable. In this essay, I commence by briefly citing historical artists Pieter Bruegel, Diego Velazques, Antoine Trouvain, Paul Strand and author Jacque Derrida who all depict disability in their works. Then I introduce a discussion outlined by authors; Anne Millett-Gallant and Elizabeth Howie in Disability and Art History 2017 that suggests that art history as a field of study, has chosen to over-look the presence of disability in the analysis of art and the possible reason for this. Then I look at disability studies as it views disability in identity politics against a backdrop of ableism. Next, I introduce the phenomenological idea that the spirit of the artist resides in their art. Then I discuss the physical, psychological and mental issues of four disabled artists; Agnes Martin, Frida Kahlo, Judith Scott and outsider artist Henry Darger and the presence of the disabled spirit in their art. Then I look at the collaborative work of non-disabled photographer Joel Peter Witkin and disabled writer Anne Millett- Gallant, whose work distorts and perverts the ideals of disability art as it is seen to exploit disability and death. I then discuss the collaboration between disabled artist Alison Lapper and non-disabled artist Marc Quinn that challenges society's ideas about disability and beauty by raising public debate. After that, I introduce the non-disabled artist Kader Attier, whose art deals with those disfigured by war and social injustices of the past. Finally, I include my own analysis on disability art and ableism, concluding with a comparison of the positive and negative ways that disability art is constructing a new future for those living and dealing with disability.
Download or read book Curating Access written by Amanda Cachia and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-14 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an interdisciplinary collection of twenty-four essays which critically examine contemporary exhibitions and artistic practices that focus on conceptual and creative aspects of access. Oftentimes exhibitions tack on access once the artwork has already been executed and ready to be installed in the museum or gallery. But what if the artists were to ponder access as an integral and critical part of their artwork? Can access be creative and experimental? And furthermore, can the curator also fold access into their practice, while working collaboratively with artists, considering it as a theoretical and practical generative force that seeks to make an exhibition more engaging for a wider diversity of audiences? This volume includes essays by a growing number of artists, curators, and scholars who ponder these ideas of ad-hoc, experimental and underground approaches within exhibition-making and artistic practices. It considers how, through these nascent exhibition models and art practices, enhanced experiences of access in the museum can be a shared responsibility amongst museum workers, curators, and artists, in tandem with the public, so that access becomes a zone of intellectual and creative "accommodation," rather than strictly a discourse on policy. The book provides innovative case studies which provide a template for how access might be implemented by individuals, artists, curators, museum administrators and educators given the growing need to offer as many modalities of access as possible within cultural institutions. This book shows that anyone can be a curator of access and demonstrates how to approach access in a way that goes beyond protocol and policy. It will thus be of interest to students and scholars engaged in the study of museums, art history and visual culture, disability, culture, and communication.
