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NEWS
Rest in Power, Lizzy Rose
The British artist explored entanglements with ecologies, culture in a literal sense. In her activism, she campaigned for fairer working conditions for disabled artists.
Announcements
United States Artists announced its 2022 fellows, recognizing disability artistry across the disciplines:
Indira Allegra in Craft
Robert Andy Coombs in Visual Art
Critical Design Lab (Kevin Gotkin, Aimi Hamraie, & Jarah Moesch) in Media
JJJJJerome Ellis in Music
Leroy F. Moore Jr. in Writing
Andy Slater in Media
The Whitney Museum announced the artists in Biennial 2022: Quiet as It's Kept, including disabled artist Emily Barker.
The Foundation for Contemporary Arts’ 2022 grant recipients include Kay Ulanday Barrett (Cy Twombly Award for Poetry) and JJJJJerome Ellis (Performance Art/Theater).
Poetry & Disability Justice
The Poetry Coalition will center Disability Justice in 2022 programming across 15 cities called “The future lives in our bodies,” a line from “Femme Futures” by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.
Colomboscope
Disabled artists explore the legacy of civil war in Sri Lanka’s interdisciplinary art festival.
Film & TV
After Peter Dinklage criticized Disney’s plans for a live-action version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the company said it is “consulting with members of the dwarfism community” and will take “a different approach with these seven characters.”
In Salon, Alison Stine points out the implausibility of Station Eleven's relegation of disability in post-apocalyptic life.
And disabled director Reid Davenport has won Sundance’s 2022 U.S. Documentary Directing Award.
Slamdance’s Unstoppable showcase is programmed by disabled artists and features films like Black Deaf filmmaker Natasha Ofili’s debut, The Multi.
The U.K.’s Channel 4 has launched Rise, “a mentoring initiative for mid- and senior-level disabled talent working in TV production.”
CVS & Uber
People in what the companies’ call “high-risk populations” in Atlanta, Columbus, and Hartford will receive free rides to medical care, work or education.
SSI Increase
Millions of Americans who receive Supplemental Security Income have received the largest cost-of-living adjustment, 5.9%, since 1982.
BSL Bill
A bill introduced in the U.K. by MP Rosie Cooper, a CODA, would grant legal status and expand public services offered in the language.
Data Profiteering
An Instagram slideshow from @ProjectLETS shows images from Alexandra Levine’s Politico piece, “Suicide hotline shares data with for-profit spinoff, raising ethical questions.”
Disability Studies Quarterly
The special topic for the new issue, edited by Juliet Larkin-Gilmore, Ella Callow, & Susan Burch, is “Indigeneity & Disability: Kinship, Place, and Knowledge-Making.”
CALLS
HEARD
Navy blue square with bold white text at the top that reads "COMMUNITY SUPPORT REQUEST" inside a white rectangle frame. Below, white text reads "We are fundraising $2,000 to support a Black DeafDisabled Elder to have a temporary safe place to stay and to provide them food & transportation." Below it, bold white text that reads "WHERE TO DONATE?" "https://behearddc.org/donate/ (Link in our bio). At the bottom right corner, there is a silhouette art in white of a fern leaf. At the bottom center, white text that reads "@behearddc."
BRIClab
BRIC encourages disabled artists to apply for its multi-disciplinary residency program. Applications are due March 10th, 2022.
Abolitionist Place
As part of Abolitionist Place in Brooklyn, commissioned by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art, Kameelah Janan Rasheed seeks the public’s ideas and participants in abolitionist study groups.
Project LETS
The “national grassroots organization and movement led by and for folks with lived experience of mental illness/madness, Disability, trauma, & neurodivergence” is seeking a Peer Support and Mad Justice Coordinator. Applications are due Feb. 20th.
Pill, Ow
An Instagram post from @RoraBlue: Pill, Ow call for artwork that matches the color scheme of your medications. Guidelines- visual art in any 2d medium is accepted the only criteria is that the colors of your art must match your medications. DEADLINE IS MARCH 1ST 2022. Please email max 5 artwork images along with a photo of your meds as a PDF to info@rorablue.com.
Socially Distanced Art
The “digitally-based, grassroots arts residency program” has issued a call for Leadership Team Members.
Grantmakers in the Arts
The national arts funding network organization is hiring a Communications Manager.
Gibney’s Reduced Rate Space Rentals (NYC)
Disabled artists can apply for $10/hour rehearsal space from February to June, 2022. Deadline on Thursday, Feb. 3rd at 11:59pm ET for a random drawing on Feb. 4th.
EVENTS
Food Justice & Disability Justice. Tonight, Jan. 31st at 8pm ET, 5pm PT on Zoom.
Surfacing (and Countering) Our Anti-Body Politic. Wednesday, Feb. 2nd at 4pm ET on Zoom.
COVID-19 & the Americans with Disabilities Act. Friday, Feb. 4th from 3-4pm ET on Zoom.
An Instagram post from @PeoplesHub: A yellow to orange gradient background featuring black text title “Building a Disability Politic & Access-Centered Cultures”. Below text says “with Ngozi Alston, Alyssa Cypher” above a photo of both trainers. Date and time says “Tuesdays Feb 15 & Feb 22, 5:30-7:30PM ET / 2:30-4:30PM PT”. Below text says “Interpreters and captioners available by request”. link to register is also visible “bit.ly/PH-DJ”.
A Conversation with Marlee Matlin. Friday, Feb. 4th at 1pm ET online.
Storytelling & Self-Advocacy series. A Lincoln Center program for teens and young adults continues once a month on Sundays through June.