By s.e. smith on 23 November, 2010
Everybody, I have found my new art crush. Yinka Shonibare, MBE is a British-Nigerian artist with an impressive list of awards, publications, and gallery exhibitions on his resume. And I am all kinds of in love with his work, from his art installations to his gallery pieces. I do love an artist with flexibility who [...]
Posted in art, creative work | Tagged art installations, colonialism, disabled artists, race, sculpture
By s.e. smith on 13 November, 2010
I think it’s pretty well known around here that I have a huge crush on Shoshannah Stern, who appeared in Deaf West‘s production of Children of a Lesser God last year as Sarah, the role made famous by fellow Deaf actress Marlee Matlin (on whom I also have a huge crush). Sadly, the run of [...]
Posted in art, creative work | Tagged actresses, Children of a Lesser God, Deaf, Deaf theatre, theatre
By s.e. smith on 27 October, 2010
Some of our readers may be aware that our very own Annaham is, among many other things, a talented cartoonist who explores disability in her cartoons. Writing about her experiences as an artist, Annaham says: The fact that I consider myself a “disabled feminist cartoonist” may seem, to some, to be an almost hyperbolic adoption [...]
Posted in art | Tagged cartooning, zines
By s.e. smith on 25 October, 2010
Riva Lehrer is a disabled painter who produces, among many other things, depictions of disabled bodies: For Lehrer, the disabled body is intensely beautiful—memorable, unexpected, and lived in with great self-awareness. These are not bodies that are taken for granted or left unexplored. This beauty has often stayed unseen despite the constant, invasive public stare. [...]
Posted in art | Tagged depictions of disability, disabled women, painting
By s.e. smith on 28 September, 2010
Joesphine King is an artist with bipolar disorder who produces startling and evocative self portraits. Josephine King remembers her first self-portrait and how it showed up out of nowhere. She was “really ill” with bipolar disorder, living alone in a flat in Amsterdam. “I was in psychosis. I was desperate, not at all well in [...]
Posted in art, creative work, identity | Tagged bipolar disorder, disabled painters, self-portraits
By s.e. smith on 2 September, 2010
I stumbled across an article on RE/FORMATIONS, an art show featuring disabled women artists that was exhibited last year, and promptly started playing hopscotch across the Internet, looking up sculpture by disabled artists. I’ve always really loved sculpture because it’s such a tactile art form to me, and one of the greatest experiences of my [...]
Posted in art, creative work | Tagged sculpture
By Annaham on 17 August, 2010
Sarah Fenske at the Phoenix New Times: ‘Til Death Do Us Part: They Got Married. Then Everything Changed This is a love story, albeit one with a medical twist. Unbeknownst to anyone — including Kevin himself — there was a tumor the size of a Granny Smith apple pressing onto Kevin’s brain. Kevin didn’t need [...]
Posted in art, race, recommended reading, social attitudes | Tagged activism, cancer, cancer treatment, chronic pain, chronic pain conditions, creative work, feminism, gender, mental health, mental illness, pain, privilege, race, relationships, social attitudes, theater
By s.e. smith on 27 July, 2010
Fiber artist Wolfie E. Rawk explores disabled and trans identities in his work, and is a spinner, which I find tremendously exciting because I’d really like to learn to spin. He also works with youth artists, and is ‘currently facilitating a series of collaborative queer quilting bees with fellow queer, transgender and allied folks in [...]
Posted in art, bodies, creative work | Tagged artists, disabled artists, trans artists, visual art
By s.e. smith on 17 July, 2010
As some FWD readers may be aware, photography is a hobby of mine (which I haven’t had nearly enough time lately to indulge in!). I love being behind the lens, I love looking at the world around me in new ways, and I adore working in the darkroom. I’m mostly working with digital photography these [...]
Posted in art, creative work | Tagged blind photographers, disabled photographers, photography
Question Time: Creativity
By Annaham on 29 July, 2010
Question Time is a series in which we open the floor up to you, commenters. We invite you to share as you feel comfortable. Do you do any creative things (artwork, web design, creative writing, photography, playing a musical instrument or instruments, crafts, knitting) for fun? If so, what are they, and what do you [...]
Posted in art, creative work, Question Time | Tagged art, comments, creative work, go commenters go!, question