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Link to The Flesh of the World
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The Flesh of the World

Link to Museums & Indigenous People: History and Decolonization
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Museums & Indigenous People: History and Decolonization

Link to “Disability and Contemporary Art” Disability in American Life: an Encyclopedia of Concepts, Policies
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“Disability and Contemporary Art” Disability in American Life: an Encyclopedia of Concepts, Policies

Link to Ways of Seeing: Introduction to the History of Photography
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Ways of Seeing: Introduction to the History of Photography

Link to “Disability Aesthetics: A Pedagogy for Teaching A Revisionist Art History,” in Sex, Identity, Aesthetics: The Work of Tobin Siebers and Disability Studies, edited by Cynthia Wu, Jina B. Kim, Joshua Kupetz, Crystal Lie
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“Disability Aesthetics: A Pedagogy for Teaching A Revisionist Art History,” in Sex, Identity, Aesthetics: The Work of Tobin Siebers and Disability Studies, edited by Cynthia Wu, Jina B. Kim, Joshua Kupetz, Crystal Lie

Link to Blind Orientations: Walking, Stumbling and Turning Towards New Points of View
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Blind Orientations: Walking, Stumbling and Turning Towards New Points of View

Link to Introduction to Visual Culture
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Introduction to Visual Culture

Link to What Can a Body Do?
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What Can a Body Do?

Link to Exhibition and Display Practices
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Exhibition and Display Practices

Link to Crip Ecologies: Vulnerable Bodies in a Toxic Landscape
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Crip Ecologies: Vulnerable Bodies in a Toxic Landscape

Link to Birth of the Modern
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Birth of the Modern

Link to Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique – currently under review
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Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique – currently under review

Link to The (Narrative) Prosthesis Re-Fitted: Finding New Support for Embodied and Imaginative Differences in Contemporary Art
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The (Narrative) Prosthesis Re-Fitted: Finding New Support for Embodied and Imaginative Differences in Contemporary Art

Link to Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation
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Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation

Link to Map of Blood
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Map of Blood

Link to Curating New Openings: Rethinking Diversity in the Gallery
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Curating New Openings: Rethinking Diversity in the Gallery

Link to Curating Loose Definitions: Inspiration “outside” the Canon
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Curating Loose Definitions: Inspiration “outside” the Canon

Link to Art History’s Co-Inhabitants: Disabled Artistic Approaches to Indigeneity
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Art History’s Co-Inhabitants: Disabled Artistic Approaches to Indigeneity

Link to Bearing Gifts: The Myth of Pandora
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Bearing Gifts: The Myth of Pandora

Link to Museum and Gallery Practices
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Museum and Gallery Practices

Link to Visual Culture of Health
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Visual Culture of Health

Link to Sweet Gongs Vibrating: The Politics of Sensorial Access
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Sweet Gongs Vibrating: The Politics of Sensorial Access

Link to “The Phenomenology of Vision,” in Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art
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“The Phenomenology of Vision,” in Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art

Link to LOUD silence
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LOUD silence

Link to Mapping hearing impairment: sound/tracks in the corner space
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Mapping hearing impairment: sound/tracks in the corner space

Link to The politics of creative access: Guidelines for a critical dis/ability curatorial practice
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The politics of creative access: Guidelines for a critical dis/ability curatorial practice

Link to Along Disabled Lines: Claiming Spatial Agency through Installation Art
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Along Disabled Lines: Claiming Spatial Agency through Installation Art

Link to Automatisme Ambulatoire: Hysteria, Imitation, Performance
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Automatisme Ambulatoire: Hysteria, Imitation, Performance

Link to Disability, Curating and the Educational Turn: The Contemporary Condition of Access in the Museum
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Disability, Curating and the Educational Turn: The Contemporary Condition of Access in the Museum

Link to Disabling Surrealism: Reconstituting Surrealist Tropes in Contemporary Art
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Disabling Surrealism: Reconstituting Surrealist Tropes in Contemporary Art

Link to The Alterpodium: A Performative Design and Disability Intervention
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The Alterpodium: A Performative Design and Disability Intervention

Link to The Flesh of the World: An Empirical Turn toward Complex Embodiment
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The Flesh of the World: An Empirical Turn toward Complex Embodiment

Link to Script/Rescript
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Script/Rescript

Link to Contemporary Issues: Accessibility and Disability in Contemporary Art
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Contemporary Issues: Accessibility and Disability in Contemporary Art

Link to Introduction to Curatorial Practices
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Introduction to Curatorial Practices

Link to Automatisme Ambulatoire: Hysteria, Imitation, Performance
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Automatisme Ambulatoire: Hysteria, Imitation, Performance

Link to ‘Disabling’ the Museum: Curator as Infrastructural Activist
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‘Disabling’ the Museum: Curator as Infrastructural Activist

Link to How can design help the visually impaired?
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How can design help the visually impaired?

News & Upcoming

    Press

    Please Note: I am working on completing Image Descriptions for every photograph on my site and appreciate your patience in this process.

    Exhibition

    Object Sensations/Object Relations/Object Translations

    February 01, 2024

    –April 28, 2024

    Tangled Art + Disability

    Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Exhibition

    To Catch a Crip Breath: Resistance and Respiration

    November 30, 2023

    –April 14, 2024

    Contemporary Calgary

    Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    New Writing

    International Association For Visual Culture 2022 Early Career Researcher Prize: "From Dematerialization of the Art Object to the Aesthetics of Access: Disabling Institutional Critique"

    February 2024

    Journal of Visual Culture

    Event

    Chair, The Feminist Art Project Day of Panels on Art, Gender, and Disability: Aesthetics of Access, College Art Association, New York

    February 18, 2023

    College Art Association

    New York City

    TFAP is a program of Rutgers University Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities

    Event

    NYU Center for Disability Studies: A Discussion and Reading of Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation

    November 17, 2022

    This is a Zoom webinar. CART and ASL are provided. 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. EST.

    Event

    The Curator's Perspective

    October 27, 2022

    The Front Arts & Culture San Diego, Zoom discussion

    Event

    Beyond the Visual symposium

    October 21, 2022

    –October 22, 2022

    Wellcome Collection

    London, UK

    Press

    Artists rewrite the script on disability

    October 2022

    KPBS

    Press

    At new SDSU exhibition, artists flip the Script

    October 2022

    San Diego Union Tribune

    Exhibition

    Script/Rescript

    October 13, 2022

    –December 08, 2022

    San Diego State University Art Gallery

    San Diego, CA

    New Writing

    Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation, volume edited by Amanda Cachia

    September 2022

    Routledge

    Event

    Lecture: Art, Gender and Disability: Aesthetics of Access

    June 23, 2022

    National Museum of Women in the Arts

    Washington DC

    Event

    Unlearn the Body: New Approaches on Disability and Art History, workshop hosted by the “Rethinking Art History through Disability” Research Project

    June 03, 2022

    –June 04, 2022

    Organized by Amanda Cachia with Virginia Marano, Charlotte Matter, and Laura Valterio at the Institute of Art History, University of Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    Event

    Keynote lecture for Dismantling the Body: Possibilities and Limitations in Art Making

    May 19, 2022

    University of Washington

    Seattle

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