Skip to Main Content

Disability Pride Month: July 2024

Disability and the Arts Display in the Library

""

 

 

Several books on a black metal book display; above is a sign with the disability pride flag; to the right is a sign with information about the display

About this Display

This year's display for Disability Pride Month is disability and the arts. For this, I wanted to incorporate more expansive definitions of both disability (such as, D/deafness, neurodivergence, and chronic illnesses) and art (music. performing arts, and writing in addition to visual arts).

Art history often focuses on art created by non-disabled people. When disabled artists are mentioned, their disabilities are often erased and only focuses on a select few artists (like Frida Kahlo, Vincent Van Gogh, and Ludwig van Beethoven). This display highlights several of these artists, as well as many contemporary artists and art historians studying disability. 

Librarian

Profile Photo

This display was curated by Cat Ellis, Health Sciences Librarian.

Image description: A young white woman with shoulder-length dark brown hair and cat-eye glasses wearing a purple and black plaid dress.

Recommendations

Cover Art
It was vulgar & it was beautiful : how AIDS activists used art to fight a pandemic
Lowery, Jack (Writer), author
New York : Bold Type Books, 2022 - 2022
Cover Art
Concerto for the left hand : disability and the defamiliar body
Davidson, Michael, 1944-
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2008
Cover Art
Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty
Harriman, New York : New Day Films, 2013
Cover Art
Crip Kinship : The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid
Kafai, Shayda, author
Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2021 - 2021
Cover Art
Disfigured : on fairy tales, disability, and making space.
Leduc, Amanda
Toronto : Coach House Books, 2020
Cover Art
Frida Kahlo
Kahlo, Frida, artist
London : Tate Publishing, 2005 - 2005
Cover Art
Disability aesthetics
Siebers, Tobin. author
Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2010
Cover Art
Broken places & outer spaces : finding creativity in the unexpected
Okorafor, Nnedi, author
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2019 - 2019

Recommended Websites