Artists/non-artists and disabled/nondisabled folks alike
Project Creative Users is seeking participants to join us in a two month collective arts project that will engage individual and collective experiences and understandings of access and/or barriers to access. Project Creative Users will explore through the sharing of stories and collaborative art making, how participants negotiate various spaces that alienate them in ways that can be physical, emotional, cultural, or more.
This project will bring six individuals together in a series of gatherings to share these experiences and to collectively build solutions that creatively and critically reflect how art can be used to change stereotypes, the built environment and the way we think about space. In this way, we use the arts to open up a new, creative conversation about accessibility, a topic so often talked about in strictly bureaucratic terms.
This invitation is open to everyone including disabled artists and non-artists and non-disabled people who may experience alienation or exclusion in other ways. Read below for information about the project leaders and how to get involved.
Submission details:
For those interested in participating, please submit a maximum of 500 words introducing yourself and explaining why you wish to join Project Creative Users. Please email your submission to [email protected] no later than July 25th, 5pm.
Selected participants will be notified by August 5th. The project will run from August 8th-September 26 and will consist of a total of six 3 hour sessions. Those selected will be expected to attend all sessions and to actively participate in project activities. Each participant will receive an honorarium of $460.
For any questions or assistance please email Lindsay at [email protected]. We look forward to hearing from you!
About Lindsay and Eliza:
Lindsay Fisher is a visual artist, community activist, graphic designer, and craftsperson living in Toronto, Ontario. She holds a degree in Fine Arts at Emily Carr in Vancouver and a degree in Graphic Design at OCAD U in Toronto. Lindsay’s experience as a woman living with a facial difference has lead her to explore themes of normalcy, beauty, identity, and sexuality in her artwork as well as in her work with Project Revision, a community arts based project that aims to change perspectives of disability and difference through digital story telling methods.
Eliza Chandler is a proud physically disabled woman who loves all things disability art and Crip community. A graduate from NSCAD University in Halifax, where she studied sculpture and media arts, Eliza truly believes in the power of disability art to change cultural understanding of disability and embodied difference. She participates disability art-based activism through her work with Tangled Art + Disability and Project ReVision and she is very excited to continue this practice through Project Creative Users. Eliza also teaches a course in disability activism at Ryerson University’s School of Disability Studies.