TagDisabled Artists

Graphic with a light blue background featuring a Taiwanese woman with black shoulder length hair and a grey shirt, side-eyeing a teddy-bear looking Pomeranian who dresses in a grey turtleneck sweater.

Posted February 9, 2022 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Crip Siblings: Interview with Chun-san (Sandie) Yi

Alice: Sandie, I am just so delighted to talk with you today and what I loved immediately is that you titled our Zoom meeting ’Crip Siblings’! Sandie: [laughs] Alice: And … Continue Reading Crip Siblings: Interview with Chun-san (Sandie) Yi

Posted March 8, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

And Now Here We Are

Disabled people all over the world are disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. “And Now Here We Are” is a comic by Sam Schäfer about the experiences of disabled people in … Continue Reading And Now Here We Are

Graphic with a blue-gray background featuring a photo of curators Vanessa Chang and Lindsey D. Felt standing shoulder to shoulder in front of a graffiti installation, beaming at the camera. Lindsey has wavy blonde hair and wears translucent glasses and a gauzy black and white dress with a black double buckle belt. Vanessa has a short dark brown bob and wears a gold choker necklace and a long sleeved white kimono top. A brown bag strap crosses her chest.

Posted February 7, 2021 Podcast

Ep 96: Art and Technology

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Graphic with a light aqua blue mineral-like background featuring two photos. [left] Photo of Jen White-Johnson, an Afro-Latina woman who is wearing a light blue denim shirt. She has a cinnamon complexion with a small brown birthmark on her left cheek. She is wearing earrings with the raised solidarity fist with an inverted triangle below. She is also wearing a wide-brimmed brown hat. [right] Photo of Knox White-Johnson, a Black Autistic boy smiling and holding a sticker designed by his mother, Jen White-Johnson, an illustration of a raised solidarity fist in black with an infinity symbol at the wrist in white with the words ‘Black Disabled Lives Matter’ below.

Posted December 12, 2020 Podcast

Ep 92: Disabled Afro-Latina Artists

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[Left] Book cover primarily in blues and reds, and it’s a detail of a larger piece of a blue self-portrait. In the full piece, you see an x-ray hanging from sort of a clothesline, and it’s an x-ray of my spine. And there are feathers falling around the x-ray. And I’m hidden, my head is hidden behind the x-ray, but you can see my body with my arms crossed in kind of a stoic, I guess, position. And for the book cover, we cropped so that it’s mainly part of that half of the x-ray and part of my body. So, it’s a close-up, but the entire image is inside the book. Below in large letters is the title of the book “Golem Girl: A Memoir,” and “Riva Lehrer.” [Right] Artist Riva Lehrer, an older white Jewish woman with white hair streaked with red. She is standing against a translucent glass window wearing a sleeveless v-neck black tank and pants. She has a silver necklace, dangly earrings, and glasses on. Her hands are collapsed in front of her torso. Photo credit: Nathan Keay

Posted December 9, 2020 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Q&A with Riva Lehrer

This pandemic has been difficult and frustrating for everyone and one bright spot of my year was sitting for a portrait by Riva Lehrer, a disabled artist I followed for … Continue Reading Q&A with Riva Lehrer

A short-statured woman with long brown curly hair and brown eyes stands in the middle of a white cube gallery space, smiling at the camera. She is wearing red lipstick to match the red and white scarf wrapped around her neck. On every wall of the gallery space hangs contemporary art that includes brightly-colored photographs of abstract shapes, a round wooden ring hanging from the ceiling, a black and white video installation of a sign language interpreter and a low-lying red lounge chair on a mat. The ceiling is exposed so all the beams, wiring and fan ducts are visible.

Posted November 1, 2020 Podcast

Ep 89: Museums

IMAGE OF MIXED ABILITIES DANCE TEACHER INDIA HARVILLE. SHE IS AFRICAN-AMERICAN WITH HAIR IN LOCKS, WEARING ALL BLACK, SITTING ON THE FLOOR WITH HER HANDS CLASPED, SMILING AT THE CAMERA.

Posted August 8, 2020 Podcast

Ep 83: Disabled Dancers

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A brown round queer with glasses and short spiky hair performs at a microphone in front of the rainbow and transgender flags. They smile holding a microphone with their hand outstretched.

Posted March 29, 2020 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Q&A with Kay Ulanday Barrett

Editor’s note: Below is an interview with Kay Ulanday Barrett, someone I admired for a long time from afar about a new book of poetry by Kay, More Than Organs, available … Continue Reading Q&A with Kay Ulanday Barrett

Posted March 8, 2020 Podcast

Ep 72: Disabled Curators

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[Left] Photo of Samuel Valdez, performing in his show And He Became Man. A Latino disabled man questions his manhood by looking back at his life recalling major events influencing him, asking, “What is a man”. [Right] Photo of Jason Dorwart, a white male about 40 years old with a long beard and greying hair looks at the camera. He wears a blue and red plaid shirt. Behind him is a mural silver, pink, and blue graffiti lettering.

Posted January 26, 2020 Podcast

Ep 69: Theatre

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Posted January 12, 2020 Podcast

Ep 68: Accessibility

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Posted September 7, 2019 Podcast

Ep 59: Comics

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Jeff Thomas, an urban Iroquois man with brown hair with touches of gray and a beard. He is smiling at the camera. Photo credit: Justin Wonnacott

Posted May 19, 2019 Podcast

Ep 51: Disabled Artists

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Diana Elizabeth Jordan, a Black woman with short hair in twists smiling at the camera. She is wearing a black scoop neck shirt with a floral print.

Posted April 14, 2019 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Disabled Film Directors: Interview with Diana Elizabeth Jordan

Below is an interview with actor, director, producer, and activist Diana Elizabeth Jordan. Diana recently participated in the 2019 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge as the director of “I Can,” a … Continue Reading Disabled Film Directors: Interview with Diana Elizabeth Jordan

Paul David Power (Tony) (R) and Pat Dempsey (Evan) (L) perform in "Crippled" at the world premiere in St. John's Newfoundland Canada. Photo Credit: Submitted Power Productions.

Posted March 31, 2019 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Is Disability ‘Culturally Unique’? Interview with Paul David Power

Interview with Paul David Power Tell me a little about yourself and what drew you to the theatre and arts. I was born with a disability that requires the … Continue Reading Is Disability ‘Culturally Unique’? Interview with Paul David Power

Graphic with an aqua blue background with black text that reads: #CripTheStage Twitter Chat, Disabled Performers & Accessibility, April 3, 2019, 3 pm Pacific/ 4 pm Mountain/ 5 pm Central/ 6 pm Eastern, Co-hosts: @GaelynnLea @wcsportscamp @DisVisibility. On the left is an illustration of a microphone. On the right is an illustration of a cat singing with musical notes above the cat.

Posted March 11, 2019 DVP News and Events

4/3 #CripTheStage Twitter Chat

Please join disabled artists Gaelynn Lea and Kalyn Heffernan and Alice Wong of the Disability Visibility Project for a conversation on accessibility and disabled performers on April 3, 2019, 3 … Continue Reading 4/3 #CripTheStage Twitter Chat