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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 “Reinvention at the Wheel: Shaping New Histories in the Decolonization of Disability” in The Routlege Companion to Decolonizing Art History
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“Reinvention at the Wheel: Shaping New Histories in the Decolonization of Disability” in The Routlege Companion to Decolonizing Art History

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

Link to “Moving towards touch: the ambulatory aesthetics of description” in Beyond the Visual: Multisensory modes of beholding art
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“Moving towards touch: the ambulatory aesthetics of description” in Beyond the Visual: Multisensory modes of beholding art

Link to Journal of Arts and Communities Special Issue: Transdisciplinarity in Disability, Art and Design
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Journal of Arts and Communities Special Issue: Transdisciplinarity in Disability, Art and Design

Link to Smoke & Mirrors
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Smoke & Mirrors

Link to Introduction to Visual Culture
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Introduction to Visual Culture

Link to Introduction to Curatorial Practices
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Introduction to Curatorial Practices

Link to Curating New Perspectives: How My Dwarfism Led Me to Disability Art
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Curating New Perspectives: How My Dwarfism Led Me to Disability Art

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 Map of Blood
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Map of Blood

Link to The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique
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The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique

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

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

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 Here’s Looking at You: Disability Art at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
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Here’s Looking at You: Disability Art at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

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 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 Cripistemology of the Cabinet: Jesse Darling’s Epistemologies (shamed cabinet)
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Cripistemology of the Cabinet: Jesse Darling’s Epistemologies (shamed cabinet)

Link to A Firm Infirmity: Extending Rebecca Horn’s Prosthetic Aesthetics to Disability Studies
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A Firm Infirmity: Extending Rebecca Horn’s Prosthetic Aesthetics to Disability Studies

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

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

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

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

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 Fugitive Crip Way-Finding and Artful Deception in the Museum
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Fugitive Crip Way-Finding and Artful Deception in the Museum

Link to Hospital Aesthetics: Disability, Medicine, Activism
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Hospital Aesthetics: Disability, Medicine, Activism

Link to Constructing Elastic Worlds: From Avant-Garde Exhibition Design to Crip Comfort
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Constructing Elastic Worlds: From Avant-Garde Exhibition Design to Crip Comfort

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

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

Link to Caring. Art, People, Possibilities.
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Caring. Art, People, Possibilities.

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

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

Link to Crip Curation and the Aesthetics of the Undeliverable
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Crip Curation and the Aesthetics of the Undeliverable

Link to At San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Disability Artwork Makes History, by Jonathan Griffin
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At San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Disability Artwork Makes History, by Jonathan Griffin

News & Upcoming

    Event

    Canon Making / Canon Breaking, panel with Paloma Checa-Gismero, Tatiana Flores and Rebecca Uchill for ASAP/16

    October 23, 2025

    –October 26, 2025

    Rice University

    Houston

    New Writing

    Hospital Aesthetics: Disability, Medicine, Activism, supported by a Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers grant and a Millard Meiss publication grant from the College Art Association

    September 2025

    Manchester University Press

    Event

    "Hospital Aesthetics: Disability, Medicine, Activism" Curating Modernism and Medicine conference

    September 15, 2025

    –September 17, 2025

    Edvard Munch Museum

    Oslo, Norway

    Event

    Clark Art Institute "Writing Art History" symposium to celebrate 25th Anniversary of the Research and Academic Program, "Case Histories" panel chaired by Suzanne Hudson and Victoria Papa

    June 26, 2025

    –June 28, 2025

    Clark Art Institute

    Williamstown, Massachussetts

    Event

    NODE Curatorial Studies Online - Exhibition Design Program

    June 17, 2025

    –June 24, 2025

    virtual class, hosted by NODE

    Berlin, Germany

    New Writing

    "A Firm Infirmity: Extending Rebecca Horn's Prosthetic Aesthetics to Disability Studies"

    June 2025

    Woman's Art Journal, Spring/Summer 2025, Vol. 46, Issue 1

    Event

    Curating Access: The Agency of Artists, Curators, and Institutions with Lucy Cotter

    May 21, 2025

    Stelo Arts and Culture Foundation, on Zoom

    Portland, Oregon

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    Accessible Buildings, Inaccessible Artworks: Reconsidering Disability in the Museum panel with Michael Tymkiw and Felix Jaeger

    April 09, 2025

    –April 11, 2025

    Association for Art History conference, University of York

    York, UK

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    4th Annual Yale University Symposium on Disability & Accessibility: ADA 35: Disability Theory; Disability in Practice; Disability as Culture

    April 07, 2025

    –April 11, 2025

    Yale University

    Yale CT

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    Book talk @ Basket Books Houston with Chelsea Clarke, Sarah Darro, and Olivia K. Young

    April 03, 2025

    Basket Books

    Houston

    New Writing

    "Constructing Elastic Worlds: From Avant-Garde Exhibition Design to Crip Comfort" in the Journal of Curatorial Studies

    April 2025

    Intellect Publishers

    Event

    Inaugurate, Innovate! The Arts Leadership Symposium & Career Fair

    March 21, 2025

    Dudley Recital Hall, School of Art

    University of Houston

    Press

    Crip Curation and Disability Art - interview on The Agency of Access

    February 2025

    Museum Confidential on NPR with Philbrook Museum of Art

    Event

    Book talk, The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique

    February 13, 2025

    Whitney Museum of American Art

    New York

    Event

    Disruptions in the Present: Art Historians on Biennials, Ecology, and Ableism

    February 12, 2025

    Printed Matter

    New York City

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