March 22, 2023 - 20:11
Goal:
What these types of programs look like? Progressive art studios? Day centers?
Goal with Artists:
Learn about the artist, their artwork style and practice,
Making:
Description of artwork and practice-”wall text”
Choosing art pieces
People who cant make it
→ Access
→ voice overs
→ process/ be a part of it
Ways to feature artists
→ conversation / interview
→ artist speaking and recording
Some time to work in class on access materials eg.
→ Balance course work adnd CCW work
Susan Nuessman
Susan Nussbaum
1998, acrylic on panel, 16" x 26"
Susan Nussbaum is a writer, actress, director, and disability rights activist who has starred in, written and/or directed productions at the Goodman, Victory Gardens, Blue Rider and other major venues. Her first novel, Good Kings, Bad Kings, won the Pen Bellwether Prize in 2013; Nussbaum’s plays and essays have been featured in numerous anthologies, including No Beyond Victims and Villains: Contemporary Plays by Disabled Playwrights. Nussbaum lives in Chicago, IL.
Response to Book
Michelles view → change in view of access and disability
Teddy→
Closest to getting out
Beverly→ closest to being a good mentor, but still working in system and therefore can be a part of its failing
Capitalism, overworked,
Relates to Mcbride Johnson→ careworkers are mandated and cant act the way they want to
Catalyst for action
Michelle
Want to ignore the challenges and hard facts of what is occurring
Denial of seeing Cheri in the other hospital→ creation of this
Seeing the death… putting it into words
Describing these feelings
Yessenia
Escapes but gets her power taken away from her
Ending of Book
Jimmy waiting for her
Trying to make a hopeful situation
Joanne has authors voice
Funny and joyful
Mistakes and joyful
Dont have to be perfect to be treated well
Videos and articles
Main Ideas
Incarceration
Independent Living Movement / Freedom
Interdependence + Resistance
Housing and Disability
Disability and sexuality / parallel life
Education
System: capitalism institutionalization
Hopelessness
Care→ dont need degrees,
Visuals→ to listening to stories
Expand ways we experience the artwork and exhibition
Pg 200
→ System works, while individuals make decisions
→ can they make a difference in the system
→ all operating in these systems
Calling attention to both individuals as well as the system as a whole
Examples of how things interconnect