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Art & Culture
WOMENAnne Finger, writer"Forbidden Fruit: Why Shouldn't Disabled People Have sex or become parents?" by Anne Finger, New Internationalist, Issue 233, July 1992 Barbara Hardaway Barbara Hardaway, with background as a costume/make-up artist and set
designer, received a Ph.D in non-verbal Intercultural communication from Howard University in Washington, DC and currently is an English professor at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC. As a collage artist, she creates fun and fantasy in mixed-media and paper works of art that range from wall hangings to furniture. She shows beauty in places where one might not expect and transforms objects into artifacts that go beyond their intended use. Her work moves in directions of bold colors and contrasting elements to create visual
tension and playful energy. Cheryl Marie Wade, poet, playwright, videomaker, performerProfessional Experience: 1997-present, Gnarlybone News, free online "cut and paste" disability culture newsletter with occasional commentary 2001, Workshop theater production with Alchemy Works of two short plays, "Parting Shots" and "Across A Crowded Room". 2001, poetry performances /presentations at Berkeley Arts Access Network Festival, UC Davis Disability Awareness Celebration, UC Berkeley ADA rally. 2001, "Body Talk", poems of sensuality, intimacy and identity. Short poetry performance video. Co-producer (with French filmmaker Diane Maroger), writer, performer. Body Talk received an Award of Achievement from Superfest XXI. http://nadc.ucla.edu/database/nadcartsAction.cfm Jean Parker, radio producer and interviewer Disability Radio Worldwide creator, producer and host, Jean Parker is a
well-known disability rights activist with years of experience working in
the movement. Jean's list of program guests reads like a "Who's Who" of the
disability community leadership around the globe. Almost all of the guests
on Disability Radio Worldwide are people with disabilities and experts in
their field(s), discussing the full spectrum of issues related to advancing
the human rights of people with disabilities around the world.
Julia “Dolphin” Trahan, performerJulia is a hard performer to describe. She is brilliant, irritating, sexy, scandalous and outrageous all at the same time. During a workshop on reframing our perceptions, she handed around her recently-removed artificial hip joint. There is no one else quite like her. Laura Hershey, writerCrip Commentary - Hershey's column Hershey, L. (1996). Her gift to me is a window. In S. Tremain (Ed.), Pushing the limits: Disabled dykes produce culture. Toronto: Women's Press. Linda Montgomery, photographer Before losing her vision, Linda Montgomery was a successful nature photographer. Her new book called Silent Strength combines the pictures she took when she could see with the poetry she has written since becoming blind. Combining medical science with her spiritual beliefs makes her story of transition to disability unique and enlightening. Nancy Mairs, writerA poet and an essayist, she was awarded the 1984 Western States Book Award in poetry for In All the Rooms of the Yellow House (Confluence Press, 1984) and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1991. Her first work of nonfiction, a collection of essays entitled Plaintext: Deciphering a Woman's Life, was published by the University of Arizona Press in 1986. Since then, she has written a memoir, Remembering the Bone House, a spiritual autobiography, Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal, and three more books of essays, Carnal Acts, Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (Woman) Writer, and Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled, all available from Beacon Press. Her current project is entitled Life's Worth: Rethinking How We Live and Die. She and her husband, George, a high-school English teacher, continue to live in Tucson, though they make public appearances throughout the country. A Research Associate with the Southwest Institute for Research on Women, she also serves on the Committee on Disability Issues of the Modern Languages Association, the Commission on the New Aging of the Pima Council on Aging, and the board of the Arizona Center for Disability Law. Riva Lehrer, painter Riva Lehrer is a powerful painter. Her Circle Stories painting series of disabled people is insightful, humorous and affirming. "The body is the first story; our text of first meeting. I see you, you see me, skin, bone, eyes, hair: assumptions pour forth like a rip in a dam. See the thousand imprints of sex, nation, money, clues to the familiar and exotic. We read and decide in eyeblink time. When bone and blood show an unfamiliar shape, the judgments freeze into a first, rigid wall between you and I. So paint the story of surface and bone explicit, unavoidable, and ask what did you fear then and what do you think now." Safi Na Nairobi, photographer, poetProfessional Experience: Staff photographer, Reggae Review, San Francisco. UC Berkely's African Student Association's Award of Achievement and Excellence following a mixed media exhibit: Journey Through Southern Africa Staff photographer, FORWARD magazine, Seattle, WA. Susan Nussbaum, playwright, actor, directorSusan Nussbaum is a playwright, actress, director and disability rights activist. She has starred in, written and/or directed productions at the Goodman, Victory Gardens, Blue Rider and other major venues. Her play Mishuganismo is included in Staring Back, and her latest play, No One As Nasty, opened at Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater in 2000. She also teaches play writing at the Mark Tabor Forum in Los Angeles. Nussbaum was injured in a car accident twenty years ago, and has examined the disability experience with an unsparing, critical wit. - Review of “No One As Nasty” Tekki Lomnicki, writer, performer, director"I consider myself a writer first, then an actor and director. I end up writing and performing my own material, since the writing generally moves me first. I haven't faced a lot of rejection in the theatre community as an actor because I haven't put myself on the line in that way too often. Yet I have done some very satisfying roles as a performer -- always starting with directors who have the vision to see me first as an actor, then as a little person. " “Other story-based creations for Tellin’ Tales include Honor Thy Mother, Alchemy, Tall Tales & Small Miracles, Honor Thy Father, 2001: A Wedding Odyssey and Sibling Revelry. She has appeared in Lexis Praxis at Zebra Crossing, Activities of Daily Living with Remains/Blue Rider; and Genetic Material for the Live Bait Fillet of Solo Festival. Tekki also adapted and directed Old Love Letters I Keep in my Underwear Drawer, produced at the Bailiwick. She most recently performed with Susan Nussbaum in Nussbaum's Parade at Estrogen Fest.” Terry Galloway, performer, writer, director“Terry Galloway is a hearing impaired writer, director and performer who has received grants in writing, directing and performing from, among others, the NEA, the PEW Charitable Trusts, the Able Foundation, The Texas Institute of Letters and the Florida Council of the Arts. Most recently she received a national Public Radio News Directors Award for Excellence in Radio Commentary and the Irene Coger Award for Outstanding Performance from the National Communications Association. In addition to conducting many other kids of ACTUAL LIVES workshops in writing and performance, she’s the head cheese of the Mickee Faust Club, and alternative, community based theater in Tallahassee, Florida whose video work has been winning recognition around the world. She’s now hard at work on a memoir about growing up deaf, “The Unheard,” and a two-act musical comedy “The Women of Ravensmadd.” (bio from Actual Lives) Victoria Ann Lewis, performer, teacher“Victoria Ann Lewis is the founder and Director of Other Voices, a play and community development program for artists with disabilities. Housed at the Mark Taper Forum since 1981, the program has provided national leadership for the disabled arts community through writers' residencies, reading and performance series, master workshops and cultural conversations. In June of this year Ms. Lewis chaired the Careers in the Arts Forum, jointly convened by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Department of Education. An accomplished solo performer in her own right, Ms. Lewis began her career as a writer and performer with the San Francisco-based Lilith Women's Theatre.” (see the Durfee Foundation) Petra Kuppers, Associate Professor of Performance StudiesPetra Kuppers is an Associate Professor in Performance Studies, Department of English and Cultural Studies at Bryant University and a Visiting Scholar, Pembroke Seminar, Brown University, since 2002. She is also Artistic Director of The Olimpias Disability Culture projects. Her work is represented at her web site: The Olimpias - Performance Research Project. IMPORTANT WORKS:Panzarino, C. (1994). The me in the mirror. Seattle : Seal Press. RESOURCES: LINKSPanel. (2003). All-Girl Action: Crip Queer Women in Performance. Disabled Women's Alliance. [2003, 9/26/2003]. NATIONAL DISABILITY ARTS FORUM (UK) NATIONAL ARTS AND DISABILITY CENTER VSArts LISTENING WITH AN OPEN EYE OTHER VOICES PROJECT AT THE MARK TAPER FORUM RESOURCES: BIBLIOGRAPHYAtkinson, D., Williams, F. (eds): Know me as I am: An anthology of prose, poetry and art by people with learning difficulties . London : Hodder & Stoughton, Open University Press, 1990 |
