TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) – Disability EmpowHer Network and the Toledo Museum of Art are hosting the second annual Disabled Women Make History (and Art) event in celebration of the 24th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court Olmstead decision.
The event will take place on June 24 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Glass Pavilion of the Toledo Museum of Art.
According to TMA, on June 22, 1999, the United States Supreme Court held in Olmstead v. L.C. that unjustified segregation of persons with disabilities constitutes discrimination in violation of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The Court held that public entities must provide community-based services to persons with disabilities. The two plaintiffs were women with disabilities and one of the women, Lois Curtis, was an artist.
TMA says Disabled Women Make History (and Art) celebrates the Olmstead decision as well as all women artists with disabilities and the incredible impacts they make on the world through their art and advocacy.
As a part of the celebration, women artists with disabilities from across the country were invited to submit their artwork for consideration to be displayed at the event. 20 artists were selected and invited to showcase their work. In addition, the artists receive admission to two exclusive workshops to enhance their skills in marketing themselves and their artwork.
Last year, 17 women artists with disabilities were featured, including artists as young as 16 years old.
“I’m so honored and thrilled to be partnering with Disability EmpowHer Network on this event for the second year. Last year’s Disabled Women Make History (and Art) event was an important moment for me. It was the first time in my role at the Toledo Museum of Art that I saw so many people with varying disabilities in the Museum all at the same time,” said Katie Shelley, Conda family manager of access initiatives for the Toledo Museum of Art. “I’m looking forward to continuing this event and providing the space for these artists to share their stories.”
Stephanie Woodward, executive director of Disability EmpowHer Network, said women artists with disabilities often do not get the credit and recognition they deserve.
“There are so many talented disabled women artists in the world, and we simply do not see enough of their work,” said Woodward. “This event helps to uplift these incredible artists, not only by displaying their work in the Museum, but also by helping them to learn new skills to market themselves and their art.”
To learn more and to attend the event, contact Katie Shelley at KShelley@toledomuseum.org or Stephanie Woodward at Stephanie@DisabilityEmpowHerNetwork.org.
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Vibrant Hawaiʻi has been selected to join the second cohort of One Nation One Project, a national initiative that focuses on the transformative power of the arts to heal and strengthen communities.
The partnership of artists, local governments and community health providers contributes toward a more equitable recovery and improved well-being across America, according to the initiative.
Vibrant Hawaiʻi’s 2022 Economic Development Strategy lifted art and performing arts as a strategic area of focus to achieve community healing and wellbeing.
“So many strategic plans are developed and then sit on a shelf,” said Janice Ikeda, executive director of Vibrant Hawai’i. “To see the plan that was developed in partnership with over 300 community members come to life is really incredible.”
Hawaiʻi Island-based artists can apply for the One Nation One Project – Hawaiʻi Artist Fellowship, which will support up to 12 local artists in creating art that enhances collective well-being, celebrates diverse stories of home and culture, and builds community resilience and social cohesion.
Selected artists will become part of the national One Nation One Project cohort centered around the prompt: “No place like home.”
Hawaiʻi Island artists of all backgrounds and artistic disciplines can apply, including storytelling, visual art, music, theater and traditional arts. To ensure representation and inclusivity, the goal is to select one artist from each district. To apply, click here. The deadline to apply is July 14, 2023.
Art fellows will engage in monthly fellowship gatherings, both in-person and via Zoom to develop relationships with fellow artists and learn from industry experts in the areas of marketing, budgeting and maintaining wellness while working.
Artists will receive a quarterly stipend of $2,000 to support their participation and bring their artistic visions to life.
To learn more about the application process and join the Vibrant Hawaiʻi One Nation/One Project-Hawaiʻi Artist Fellowship, please reach out to us directly via email at [email protected].
June 21 | Qamishli, Syria
People mourn the death of Kurdish women killed a day earlier in a reported Turkish drone strike. The strike reportedly hit a vehicle on a road between the cities of Qamishli and Amuda, along the Turkish border, killing three employees of northeast Syria’s semiautonomous Kurdish administration, two of them Kurdish women as well as a Christian man.
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Priscilla Briggs, Art and Art History and Film and Media Studies, focuses on capitalism’s wide-ranging effects on society.
Lovers of socially conscious photography can enjoy the creations of a Gustavus professor in far-flung locations this summer and fall. Priscilla Briggs, Art and Art History and Film and Media Studies, is showcasing her work at London’s Saatchi Gallery through September 17 as part of an exhibition called, “Civilization: The Way We Live Now.” Briggs is featured alongside about 150 fellow photographers from all over the globe in an installation that “highlights the complexity and contradictions of contemporary civilization.”
“Happy” is part of the globetrotting “Civilization” exhibit.
The specific photo in the London exhibit—”Civilization” has been touring the globe for several years—was shot in China, where Briggs has traveled to document how the communist country’s relatively new systems of capitalism “intersect East and West in terms of ideology, and how that’s manifested in the retail landscape,” she said. (The installation has an accompanying book that compiles its photos.)
Beginning in August, the Candela Collection, based in Richmond, VA will host the 12th edition of its UnBound! exhibit, which supports photographers by selling their original works and encourages their donation to notable permanent collections. For this, Briggs is including “Dollars and Sense: a zine about Capitalism,” which, like much of her work, explores societal divides, in this case by comingling statistics and narratives about wealth and poverty with images from the 2020 social justice protests. It’s one of multiple zines Briggs has helped create to dissect how consumerism influences social justice, the environment, and overall equity.
“The gold [pages] are about wealth and how that’s accumulated in the United States in various sectors of the economy, and then the black [pages are] about poverty and or death related to poverty and how that comes about,” she said.
Briggs will be on sabbatical this fall and will spend part of that time photographing organic farms in Italy after doing the same this summer here in Minnesota. Although she hasn’t yet identified specific end goals for that project, it was partly inspired by her father, an organic farmer in Pennsylvania. “A lot of the work I’ve done is looking more at one critical side of things, so I wanted to look at sustainable farming as a solution rather than focus on a problem,” she said. “Usually when I start a project, I’m not exactly sure what it’s going to lead. I just start with an idea of what I want to investigate and then the conceptual foundation of that will evolve into something.”
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The Mid-America All-Indian Museum (MAAIM) will host the Keepers of the Culture Powwow, a celebration of Native American families.
The event will be this Saturday, June 24th, from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Powwow contests include the Potato Dance, War Whoop, Lulu and Switch Dance, and the Stumblingbear Regalia Cupboard will be lending shawls and ribbon shirts to youth who wish to participate. The Native American Elders Council will also sell concessions throughout the powwow.
Admission for the event is free. Visitors are also welcome to explore the galleries free of charge during the event, which will be the last opportunity to view the current exhibits, “Voices and Votes: Democracy in America,” “The American Indian Vote,” and “Celebrating the Centennial of the 19th Amendment: Women Vote.”
From 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., attendees will be able to meet the artists featured in “Following Blackbear,” the inaugural annual invitational exhibit for Native artists. Brandon Buffalohead, Josh Johnico, Michelle Sutton and the three founding artists of the Warclan Collective will be present to discuss their work. “Following Blackbear” will be on view at MAAIM through July 29th.
Visitors are being asked to park at Exploration Place and walk across the Keeper Plaza to MAAIM, as the small parking lot in front of the museum is reserved for elders and those who are handicapped.
Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is thrilled to announce its prestigious recognition as the Best Sculpture Park in the United States, in the USA
