NEWS
In The Brooklyn Rail, Candice Thompson reviews VITRUVIAN by Jerron Herman (recently closed at Abrons Arts Center and streaming on-demand from July 6-30), calling it “a triumph of intention and reinvention.”
In Art in America, Emily Watlington reviews the Lorenza Böttner retrospective - the artists’ self-portraits set in a frustrating curatorial frame - up at the Leslie-Lohman Museum in Manhattan through August 14.
Some Follow Up Questions, a group show organized by Jen Shear, Nora Normile, Park McArthur, and Jason Hirata, is open at the Westbeth Gallery in Manhattan until July 1.
AXIS Dance Company announced the participants of its 2022 Choreo-Lab: Nadia Adame will mentor Sonya Rio-Glick in Berkeley and Jerron Herman will mentor x and Audre Wirtanen in NYC.
Poet/writer/activist Eli Clare recently published an essay called “Moving Close to the Ground” to his Patreon.
Jay Price. London-based artist Jay Price has won the Adam Reynolds Award, a bursary designed by Shape Arts to support the practice of a mid-career disabled artist.
Activating Change, an organization whose mission is “to end victimization, criminalization, incarceration, and institutionalization of people with disabilities and Deaf people,” has grown from a project of the Vera Institute of Justice and is now operating as its own non-profit.
Benched by playwright Jamila Main, an interactive performance exploration of athleticism and disability, recently closed at the Darlinghurst Theatre Company in Sydney, Australia.
Words Out, a book of poetry, prose, and pictures by members of disability arts collective Open Arts, will launch during the Belfast Book Festival on June 16.
Bus Stop Films, an organization that supports representation and employment for disabled people in the screen industry, will join the Australian delegation to the Conference of States Parties (COSP) at the United Nations on The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
Comedian, actress, and advocate Maysoon Zayid sold a new middle-grade graphic novel, Shiny Misfits, drawn by Shadia Amin, to Scholastic Graphix for publication in 2023.
Unlimited has released a guide to creating your own access rider.
body horror vignettes by lita b. is up at the Arts AccessAbility Network Manitoba Gallery in Winnipeg.
Project Art Centre's Curator of Visual Arts, Sara Greavu, talks to Iarlaith Ni Fheorais about her practice as a Queer, Crip Curator, published on Raidió Teilifís Éireann, Ireland's National Public Service Media.
Writing for Inside Philanthropy, Ford Foundation program officers Rocío Aranda-Alvarado and Lane Harwell call for arts funders to “invest” directly in disability arts, one of the 6 trends they identify in arts and culture funding.
British disability arts organizer Martin Wilson of Tin Arts was honored with a Member of the Order of the British Empire award as part of the Queen’s birthday honours.
The NYC Dyke March is trying something new this Pride and offering cash support for transportation access. From their Instagram, a graphic says “Spoons 4 Dykes! Do: Use Your Spoons to Flirt! Don't: Use your Spoons on the MTA!” Use the form here to request support.
Counterpoint is a dance collaboration between Restless Dance Theatre in Adelaide, Australia and 29Dong Dance Theater and Korean Music Project, both based in Seoul, South Korea is being coordinated by Dr. Boram Lee and Professor Ruth Rentschler.
Ryan O’Connell’s debut novel, Just by Looking at Him, is out. It follows “a gay TV writer with cerebral palsy as he fights addiction and searches for acceptance in an overwhelmingly ableist world.” O’Connell hopes the work will push for more disability artistry on our screens.
Another amazing edition of Peter Torres Fremlin’s Disability Debrief Substack rounds up lots of important stories: a new UN report on “assistive technology,” the Pope was out in public using a wheelchair for the first time, updates on disabled Ukrainian children, and Netflix’s new categories for disability content.
CALLS
Kinetic Light is seeking a Production Manager.
Getty Images is partnering with Verizon and the National Disability Leadership Alliance (NDLA) to offer the The Disability Communities Creative Grant with $15,000, $10,000, and $5,000 prizes. Apply here.
HEARD, the “cross-disability abolitionist organization that unites across identities, communities, movements, and borders to end ableism, racism, capitalism, and all other forms of oppression and violence,” is seeking an Advocacy Director as TL Lewis transitions out of the Executive Director role. You can leave messages of appreciation for TL’s game-changing work here.
Unlimited is seeking respondents for a survey about unpaid work by disabled artists and artsworkers.
The Level Centre is seeking works by UK-based artists for a public exhibition with 3 prizes. More info here.
A casting call is out for 5 actors for a play exploring Mad justice, racialization and policing. The performance takes place second week of August in Tkaronto. DM @SyrusMarcus for more info.
Tech Kids Unlimited is hiring a Director/Manager of Operations.
AXIS Dance Company invites disabled and non-disabled dancers and educators from around the world to apply for a 5-day virtual Intensive, July 27-29 and August 1-2, 2022. Apply here.
Drake Music is hiring a CEO.
Activating Change is hiring several team members: part-time ASL interpreter, Executive & Operations Assistant, Director of Ending Criminalization and Incarceration, Director of Finance, and Program Coordinator. More info here.
EVENTS
TODAY, Monday, June 13th at 2:00pm EDT, Gibney is hosting a Black Diaspora event on Zoom, featuring artists Alexandria Wailes and Brandon Kazen-Maddox to discuss Deaf representation in performance spaces and the needs of Deaf folks preparing for dance. How can arts institutions better support Deaf folks and, particularly, Deaf folks of color, in the dance world? This even is open to a Black or Afro-Latinx-identifying audience only.
Audiences must RSVP by emailing eva@gibneydance.org.
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) and NYU Center for Disability Studies are hosting “Radical Accessibility: Making Media Art Collections Truly Accessible” with Ben Cook (LUX), Louise Hickman, Darrin Martin, Mara Mills, moderated by Rebecca Cleman (EAI) on Friday, June 17th at
12pm ET. RSVP here.The Disability & Philanthropy Forum will host an event about “Disability, Arts, & Culture” on Thursday, June 16th from 1-2pm ET. Register here.
Diversability and Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities are hosting “Elevating Culture with Disabled Musicians” with Wawa Snipe, Keith Jones, James Ian, and Sabeerah Najee on Tuesday, June 21st from 7-8:30pm ET. Register here.
