Celebrating Disability Pride Month with My Favorite Artist-Advocates

July is Disability Pride Month! To celebrate, I'll be sharing work by some of my favorite artists and advocates this month. 

In April, I presented a poster project titled Visual / Virtual / Viral: Communicating Disease and Disability Experience Through Art in the Digital Age at the University of Findlay's Symposium for Scholarship and Creativity. My interactive poster won the Academic Excellence Poster Prize and was accepted into the Midwest Popular Culture Association's annual conference, where I'll be presenting additional research in October.

​In this presentation, I explore the work of artists like Elizabeth Jameson, who reclaims her own medical data by creating colorful portraits from her MRI scans. Other artists, like Emma Jones, have launched movements that encourage the participation of people with chronic illnesses around the world. These movements continue to grow online and off, with craftsmen like Evan Hebenstreit merging the traditional art of woodcarving with an international awareness campaign. 

Explore more works by these talented artists by clicking on the images below. And keep an eye out for additional featured artists this month!

Copy of Visual Virtual Viral by Maggie Morehart