Contemporary Art and Disability Studies (Paperback)

Part I: Methodologies of Access, Agency, and Ethics in Cultural Institutions1. Accessibility in and Beyond the Quagmire of the Present[Taraneh Fazeli] 2. For a New Accessibility [Carmen Papalia] 3. Inclusion Matters: "Are You Sure You Belong Here?" [Karen Keifer-Boyd, Michelle Kraft, and Alice Wexler] Part II: The Politics and Ethics of Collaboration: Analyzing Social Practices in Communities 4. Participatory and Community-Based Contemporary Art Practices with People with Disabilities [Mira Kallio-Tavin] 5. DaDaFest Ensemble: Leadership, Voice and Participation in Music Making [Claire Penketh, Anne James, Richard Nutter, and Sam Wades] 6. Post Traumatic Stress Poetics: Healing as Praxis in Socially Engaged Artmaking [Carol Zou]Part III: Embodied Representations of Artists with Disabilities in the Visual and Performing Arts 7. The (Narrative) Prosthesis Re-Fitted: Finding New Support for Embodied and Imagined Differences in Contemporary Art [Amanda Cachia] 8. Basilisk and the Representation of Physically Disabled Women in Film [Ann Millett-Gallant] 9. Out of Time: Crip Spacetime and Performance [Carrie Sandahl] 10. Visually Representing Illness and Disability in Tee Corinnes Scars, Stoma, Ostomy Bag, Portacath: Picturing Cancer in Our Lives [Stefanie Snider] 11. Bill Shannon: Challenging Disabling Environments and Redistributing Sense [Jack Richardson and Jennifer (Eisenhauer) Richardson]Part IV: Emerging from Anonymity: Negotiating TheOutsider Art Label12. Lee Godie: Accidental Postmodern Outsider Artist [Alice Wexler]14. Carnival of Desires: Disability, Sex, and the Fantastical Paintings of Aurie Ramirez [Amy Mutza]Part V: Life Writing: First-Person Reflections on Disability and Artmaking 15. Presence and Absence: The Paradox of Disability in Portraiture [Riva Leher] 16. Accidents Happen: An Art Autopathography on Mental Disability [John Derby]16 Out of the Blue: Art, Disability and Yelling [Katherine Sherwood] 17. An Interview with Four Art Professionals with Disabilities About the Traps and Benefits of Opening up About Them [Nina Stuhldreher]