DISABILITY ARTS IS.
Together, Alice Sheppard, Simi Linton, and Therí Pickens offer provocations to their audience.
Disabled Artists. We are this. Disability Arts. We got this.
Are you here?
Meet the 2021 Rudin Lecture speakers and moderator.
Speakers
Alice Sheppard, a multi-racial Black woman with coffee- coloured skin, blonde, copper, and red striped curly hair gazes towards the camera. She wears a black shirt; her face rests in the palm of her face, her elbow sits on her thigh, and a gold necklace gleams at her neck.
Credit: Beverlie Lord
Alice Sheppard is the Artistic Director of Kinetic Light, a project-based ensemble, working at the intersections of disability, dance, design, identity, and technology to create transformative art and advance the intersectional disability arts movement. A USA Artist, Creative Capital grantee and Bessie Award winner, Alice creates movement that engages intersectional disability arts, culture, and history, challenging conventional understandings of disabled and dancing bodies.
Simi Linton, a white woman, with reddish hair and black cats eye glasses, is seated in a power wheelchair in a garden. She is wearing a purple jacket, beaded metallic necklace, and long multi-colored scarf. She is smiling.
Simi Linton is an author, filmmaker, and arts consultant. Her writings include Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity, My Body Politic, and “Cultural Territories of Disability” published by Dance/NYC. Linton’s organization, Disability/Arts Consultancy, serves cultural institutions throughout New York City and works to shape the presentation of disability in the arts.
Therí A. Pickens, a professor of English at Bates College, received her PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA (2010). Her research focuses on Arab American and African American literatures and cultures, Disability Studies, philosophy, and literary theory. She is the author of two books: New Body Politics and Black Madness :: Mad Blackness.
ASL interpretation and live CART captioning will be available for this event. If you have any questions or access requests, please let us know in the special instructions area of the RSVP.
DISABILITY ARTS IS.
Together, Alice Sheppard, Simi Linton, and Therí Pickens offer provocations to their audience.
Disabled Artists. We are this. Disability Arts. We got this.
Are you here?
Meet the 2021 Rudin Lecture speakers and moderator.
Speakers
Alice Sheppard, a multi-racial Black woman with coffee- coloured skin, blonde, copper, and red striped curly hair gazes towards the camera. She wears a black shirt; her face rests in the palm of her face, her elbow sits on her thigh, and a gold necklace gleams at her neck.
Credit: Beverlie Lord
Alice Sheppard is the Artistic Director of Kinetic Light, a project-based ensemble, working at the intersections of disability, dance, design, identity, and technology to create transformative art and advance the intersectional disability arts movement. A USA Artist, Creative Capital grantee and Bessie Award winner, Alice creates movement that engages intersectional disability arts, culture, and history, challenging conventional understandings of disabled and dancing bodies.
Simi Linton, a white woman, with reddish hair and black cats eye glasses, is seated in a power wheelchair in a garden. She is wearing a purple jacket, beaded metallic necklace, and long multi-colored scarf. She is smiling.
Simi Linton is an author, filmmaker, and arts consultant. Her writings include Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity, My Body Politic, and “Cultural Territories of Disability” published by Dance/NYC. Linton’s organization, Disability/Arts Consultancy, serves cultural institutions throughout New York City and works to shape the presentation of disability in the arts.
Therí A. Pickens, a professor of English at Bates College, received her PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA (2010). Her research focuses on Arab American and African American literatures and cultures, Disability Studies, philosophy, and literary theory. She is the author of two books: New Body Politics and Black Madness :: Mad Blackness.
ASL interpretation and live CART captioning will be available for this event. If you have any questions or access requests, please let us know in the special instructions area of the RSVP.
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