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Link to Constructing Elastic Worlds: From Avant-Garde Exhibition Design to Crip Comfort
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Constructing Elastic Worlds: From Avant-Garde Exhibition Design to Crip Comfort

Link to Tears, stitches & transition: feminist textiles and a birth of QueerCrip aesthetics
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Tears, stitches & transition: feminist textiles and a birth of QueerCrip aesthetics

Link to Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation
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Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation

Link to Journal of Arts and Communities Special Issue: Transdisciplinarity in Disability, Art and Design
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Journal of Arts and Communities Special Issue: Transdisciplinarity in Disability, Art and Design

Link to Smoke & Mirrors
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Smoke & Mirrors

Link to “A Radical History of Chronic Agency” in How do you throw a brick through the window…
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“A Radical History of Chronic Agency” in How do you throw a brick through the window…

Link to Here’s Looking at You: Disability Art at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
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Here’s Looking at You: Disability Art at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

Link to Grove Art Online: Disability arts movement
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Grove Art Online: Disability arts movement

Link to Art History Now: Objects, Concepts, Approaches
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Art History Now: Objects, Concepts, Approaches

Link to Critical Studies in Art, Disability & Access
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Critical Studies in Art, Disability & Access

Link to The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique
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The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique

Link to Cripistemology of the Cabinet: Jesse Darling’s Epistemologies (shamed cabinet)
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Cripistemology of the Cabinet: Jesse Darling’s Epistemologies (shamed cabinet)

Link to Fugitive Crip Way-Finding and Artful Deception in the Museum
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Fugitive Crip Way-Finding and Artful Deception in the Museum

Link to Curating New Openings: Rethinking Diversity in the Gallery
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Curating New Openings: Rethinking Diversity in the Gallery

Link to Hospital Aesthetics: Disability, Medicine, Activism
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Hospital Aesthetics: Disability, Medicine, Activism

Link to Weaving In, Weaving Out
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Weaving In, Weaving Out

Link to Crip Curation and the Aesthetics of the Undeliverable
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Crip Curation and the Aesthetics of the Undeliverable

Link to What Disability Art Means Now
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What Disability Art Means Now

Link to “Moving towards touch: the ambulatory aesthetics of description” in Beyond the Visual: Multisensory modes of beholding art
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“Moving towards touch: the ambulatory aesthetics of description” in Beyond the Visual: Multisensory modes of beholding art

Link to A Firm Infirmity: Extending Rebecca Horn’s Prosthetic Aesthetics to Disability Studies
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A Firm Infirmity: Extending Rebecca Horn’s Prosthetic Aesthetics to Disability Studies

Link to Crafting Disability: Re-envisioning Indian Textile Traditions
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Crafting Disability: Re-envisioning Indian Textile Traditions

News & Upcoming

    Event

    College Art Association panel, Session: Critical Studies in Art, Disability & Access: Visibility, Agency, and Interpretation, Co-Chairs: Amanda Cachia & Lisa Slominski

    February 03, 2027

    –February 06, 2027

    Hilton Hotel

    New York, New York

    Event

    "Feeling Access: Disability, Neurodivergence, and the Affective Architectures of Curatorial Practice," Society for the Study of Affect MAKE conference panel on

    October 23, 2026

    –October 25, 2026

    Century Plaza Hotel

    Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Event

    Weave In, Weave Out: Disability as Social Sculpture and Radical Textile Activism, for panel Interdisciplinary: Threads, Patterns, and Disruptions in Art + Disability Studies

    October 21, 2026

    –October 24, 2026

    SECAC Conference

    Winston-Salem, North Carolina

    Event

    UAAC panel: "Researching Access: Disability, Collaboration, and the Making of Method” chaired by Amanda Cachia

    October 13, 2026

    –October 15, 2026

    Concordia University

    Montreal, Canada

    Event

    7th Annual Creating Community Conference: The Expanding Landscape of Art and Disabilities

    October 05, 2026

    –October 08, 2026

    University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Progressive Art Studio Collective

    Michigan, Illinois

    Event

    Access, Activism, and Aesthetic Revision: Crip Methods for Art History

    September 23, 2026

    Department of Art & Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chapel Hill, North Carolina

    Press

    The Agency of Access wins Dedalus Foundation 2026 $10,000 Robert Motherwell First Book Award

    August 2026

    Event

    Interventions in Flaring Up: Curatorial Practice, Disability Studies, and Critical Dialogue, as part of the group exhibition Flare-Up curated by Natasha Hoare and Mariana Lemos

    July 21, 2026

    Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, on Zoom

    London, UK

    New Writing

    Critical Studies in Art, Disability & Access, new book series, co-edited by Amanda Cachia & Lisa Slominski

    June 2026

    Manchester University Press

    Event

    Publication launch of How do you throw a brick through the window...talk on Hospital Aesthetics: Disability, Medicine, Activism

    May 21, 2026

    UIC Gallery 400, https://gallery400.uic.edu/

    Chicago, IL

    New Writing

    "A Radical History of Chronic Agency," in How do you throw a brick through the window...exhibition catalogue

    May 2026

    John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC) and Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG)

    Event

    Learning from the Field: Successes and Challenges in Creative Access

    May 15, 2026

    Museum of Fine Art

    Houston, TX

    New Writing

    Book Review: The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique

    April 2026

    Journal of Curatorial Studies

    Exhibition

    Vital Signs: From Patient to Power

    September 01, 2027

    –August 30, 2032

    to tour across USA with Mid-America Arts Alliance and ExhibitsUSA

    based on my book, Hospital Aesthetics: Disability, Medicine, Activism

    Event

    “Touch as Method: Disability, Haptic Knowledge, and Institutional Critique” for TACT: Touch, Arts, Affects New Seminar Series

    April 14, 2026

    Sorbonne Nouvelle University

    Paris, France

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