REGISTER VIA ZOOM

Led by UIC Disability Cultural Center Director Margaret Fink and exhibiting artist Sandie Yi, this virtual tour takes the audience through this collaborative exhibition that explores new pathways of access by reinventing traditional museum practices. Yi also discusses themes of humor, design, and labor addressed in Digital Technology , her first solo exhibition in Chicago that further explores her idea of “crip couture.”

ACCESS INFORMATION: This program is free and open to the public. CART (live captions) and ASL will be available on Zoom. We’ll have a camera connecting our virtual audience to the gallery. Descriptions of objects will be integrated into the presentation. For questions and access accommodations, email gallery400engagement@gmail.com.

ABOUT

Margaret Fink is the Director of UIC’s Disability Cultural Center, one of seven Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change. A cultural studies and literary scholar, she has published on disability representation in graphic fiction and taught courses on disability in American literature, reality television, and discourses of the mind/body distinction. After experiencing disability culture spaces at disability studies conferences, her work as a teacher blossomed into an interest in disability culture informed access practices and how they shape spaces for inclusion and belonging. More recently, she has collaborated on pieces about accessible conference spaces, inclusive theater, and creative explorations of disability experience during the pandemic.

Sandie Yi is a disabled artist and disability culture worker. As a part of the Disability Art Movement, Yi’s practice, Crip Couture, focuses on wearable art about the disabled bodymind. She has a Ph.D. in Disability Studies from the University of Illinois Chicago, an MA in art therapy from School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), and an MFA from the University of California, Berkeley. She is an assistant professor in the department of art therapy and counseling at SAIC. Her research interests include Disability Arts and Culture; disability fashion; accessibility design and programming for arts and cultural venues; and disability culture-informed art therapy.