DisTopia

DisArt enjoyed a lively conversation with Terry Galloway and Donna Nudd in this episode of the My Dearest Friends Project. Please copy and paste the following link for a full transcript of the episode: https://www.disartnow.org/podcasts/ episode-37-terry-galloway-donna-marie-nudd /  

Sculptor Nicola Rigby joins DisArt in this episode of the My Dearest Friends Project. Please copy and paste the following link for a full transcript of the episode: https://www.disartnow.org/podcasts/episode-36-nicola-rigby/

Chris and Jill are joined by the amazing Alice Sheppard in this episode of the My Dearest Friends Project. Please copy and paste the following link for a full transcript of the episode: https://www.disartnow.org/podcasts/episode-35-alice-sheppard/

(Recorded April 10, 2020) Disabled activist, academic, and poet Jim Ferris joins Jill and Chris in this episode of the My Dearest Friends Project. Please copy and paste the following link for a full episode transcript: https://www.disartnow.org/podcasts/episode-34-jim-ferris/

The powerful and splendid Ruth Fabby, MBE, Director at Disability Arts Cymru in the UK joins Jill and Chris in this episode of the My Dearest Friends Project. Please copy and paste the following link for a full transcript of the episode: https://www.disartnow.org/podcasts/episode-33-ruth-fabby-mbe/

DisTopia Podcast's special series My Dearest Friends Project continues with a conversation with Canadian Disabled academic and activist Nancy Hansen. Please copy and paste the following link for a full transcript of the episode: https://www.disartnow.org/podcasts/episode-32-nancy-hansen/

The My Dearest Friends Project continues: Disability Civil Rights photographer and activist Tom Olin talks with Chris and Jill about his current hopes and fears for the Disabled community as well as the legacy of the movement. Please copy and paste the following link for a full transcript of the episode: https://www.disartnow.org/podcasts/episode-31-tom-olin/

The My Dearest Friends Project continues today with a conversation with Disabled writer Shaun Phuah about coronavirus, acid trips, and family. Please copy and paste the following link for a full transcript of the episode: https://www.disartnow.org/podcasts/episode-30-shaun-phuah/  

DisTopia Podcast's special series My Dearest Friends Project continues with a conversation with Disabled psychotherapist and trauma counselor Marin Brooke Hann. Please copy and paste the following link for a full transcript of the episode: https://www.disartnow.org/podcasts/episode-29-marin-hann/

DisTopia Podcast's special series My Dearest Friends Project continues with a conversation with Disability and media scholar Beth Haller about the state of media during the pandemic. Please copy and paste this link for a full transcription of this episode: https://www.disartnow.org/podcasts/episode-28-beth-haller/

Chris and Jill talk to London-based theatre director, playwright, producer, actor, and poet Julie McNamara for this episode of the My Dearest Friends Project. Please cut-and-paste the following URL for episode transcript: https://www.disartnow.org/podcasts/episode-27-julie-mcnamara/

In this episode Jill and Chris continue the My Dearest Friends Project by talking to Disabled activist and accessibility advocate Mary Fashik about virtual camp, finding community, and much more. Please copy and paste the following link for a full transcript of the episode: https://www.disartnow.org/podcasts/episode-26-mary-fashik/

Join Jill and Chris as they continue the My Dearest Friends Project podcast series with a conversation with Disabled health advocate, activist, and artist Jane Hash. Please copy and paste the following link for a full transcript of the episode: https://www.disartnow.org/podcasts/episode-25-jane-hash/

Join Jill and Chris for this continuation of the My Dearest Friends Project podcast series as they talk to artist, activist, and poet Leroy Moore about pandemic life at the intersections of race, class, and disability. Please copy and paste the following link for each full transcript of the episode: https://www.disartnow.org/podcasts/episode-24-leroy-moore/

Join DisTopia hosts Jill Vyn and Chris Smit for a candid discussion with Disability activist and photographer Anthony Tusler who talks about the odd convergence of the coronavirus and the release of the documentary film Crip Camp. Please copy and paste the following link for a full transcript of the episode: https://www.disartnow.org/podcasts/episode-23-anthony-tusler/

Join DisTopia hosts Chris Smit and Jill Vyn as they talk to Disabled artist Robert Andy Coombs about his work, life, and reality during this time of quarantine. This episode is part of the My Dearest Friends Project. Please copy and paste the following link for a full transcript of the episode: https://www.disartnow.org/podcasts/episode-22-robert-andy-coombs/

During this time of social distancing and isolation, DisArt and artist Oaklee Thiele seek to create an inclusive documentation of our experiences as a Disabled community. Join the team as they talk about the origins of the project My Dearest Friends on this special episode of DisTopia. Please copy and paste the following link for a full transcript of the episode: https://www.disartnow.org/podcasts...

DisTopia connected with the curators of this groundbreaking exhibition  Recoding CripTech. Curated for SOMARTS by Vanessa Chang and Lindsey D. Felt,  Recoding CripTech  reimagines enshrined notions of what a body can be or do through creative technologies, and how it can move, look, or communicate. Opening with a free, all ages reception on  Thursday, January 23, 6–9pm , the evening program featur...

Join Jill and Chris for an in-depth discussion of the new film The Upside starring Bryan Cranston, Kevin Hart, and Nicole Kidman. Have we progressed since the Me Before You debacle of 2016? Tune in to hear with the DisArt team has to say. Also, be sure to download the transcription below for discussion questions that you can use with your students, friends, or next movie night get-together!

Join your hosts Jill and Chris for an in-depth interview with the Disabled activist Judy Heumann. One of the first troubadours of Disability Culture, Heumann talks about her own story of disability, the importance of activism in every level of life, and the current state of disability politics.

Join your hosts Jill and Chris for conversation with the critically acclaimed contemporary artist Chun-Shan (Sandie) Yi. Sandie is an artist, disability activist, and scholar. Her interdisciplinary practice often centers on personal histories and narratives generated within and performed by the body through everyday social interaction.

Join your hosts Chris and Jill for an intimate conversation with the artist and author Brian Catling. Catling is a novelist, poet and artist whose practice reaches across painting, sculpture, installation and performance. His surreal narratives, performances and sculptures evoke a sophisticated awareness of disability, exploring the vulnerability, grace and toughness of brokenness, alienation, hea...

Join DIStopia hosts Jill Vyn and Christopher Smit for discussion with Creative Growth Arts Center Executive Dir. Tom di Maria. As a pioneer in the worlds of Outsider and Disability Art, di Maria has changed the way we think about communities, the politics of art, and the place for different bodies and minds in the lexicon of contemporary art.

DIStopia co-hosts Jill and Chris visit Cultura Collective and chat with Stefanie Rosales, curator and Program Director for the Cook Arts Center, and local artist, Javier Torres. As you listen to these brief interviews, consider the relationship between disability and culture and how two artists, Reyna Garcia and Javier Torres, draws the viewer into conversations about their lived experience of dis...

In this episode of DIStopia's ArtPrize 9 series, Chris and Jilly discuss whether or not you have to be in Grand Rapids to get value from the ArtPrize experience. Rennick, to consider ways that ArtPrize is working to make the festival more accessible to those of us choose not to head downtown for one reason or another.