Virtual Lecture: Alice Sheppard
Image Description
A torso-up headshot of Alice Sheppard; she is a multiracial Black woman with coffee-colored skin and platinum blond short curly hair, she wears a hot pink top. Alice folds her hands in her lap and regards the camera with a slight smile. The rims of her wheelchair arc into the bottom of the frame. Photo by Cherylynn Tsushima.
Date and Time
Venue
Attend virtually via Zoom or on-campus
Pre-registration (opening soon) is required to receive a Zoom link to attend the virtual workshop.
People who would like to attend the virtual lecture on campus may do so in Academic West room 302.
Part of the Exhibition
The Western Gallery is excited to announce the virtual lecture “Inside Disability Arts + Aesthetics” with Alice Sheppard. Alice serves as Artistic Director of the internationally recognized arts ensemble, Kinetic Light.
Learn more about Kinetic Light.
About the lecture: Inside Disability Arts + Aesthetics
Get to know Kinetic Light’s Artistic Director, Alice Sheppard, as she explores the world of disability arts in this online lecture. In tracing the throughlines of race, queerness, disability, and access in her work, Dr. Sheppard will discuss the cultural, aesthetic, and political implications of disability arts.
Speaking to and from the history, aesthetics and cultures of disabled people, the intersectional disability arts movement affirms work by disabled people, work that features disabled people, and work that imagines a disabled audience as primary. In this space, access is not a retroactive accommodation or service, but a creative and generative aesthetic in the work itself.
Access
CART captioning and ASL interpretation will be available. For those viewing and engaging onsite at WWU, masks are strongly encouraged and provided.
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