Joseph Grigely is an artist and writer. He frequently exhibits nationally and internationally, recent solo shows and projects include: Marian Goodman Gallery, London; Air de Paris, Paris; Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid; and the Serpentine Gallery, London. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005, his work is included in collections such as the Tate Modern, London and both the MoMa and the Whitney in New York. He has authored various books, as well as essays on disability theory and body criticism. Grigely has a D.Phil. from Oxford University and is Professor of Visual & Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

United States of America v. GPH Management, LLC
1996-2011
Wall inscription
Dimensions variable

Dave Richards work has been shown nationally and internationally, including The Museum of Contemporary Art, in Chicago, The International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, and The Kaoshiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaoshiung, Taiwan. He has work in various public and private collections, and his most recent writing project is a catalog essay for Portages, an exhibition at Riverside Art Center. Richards taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1982 until 2010.

Trigger Warning
2020
Mixed Media
12 inches x 9 inches x 2.5 inches

Forked Stigma
2018
Mixed media
9.5 inches x 9.5 inches x 2.25 inches

Artist Website

Justin LeBlanc’s interdisciplinary career spans fashion, textile art, architecture, and technology. LeBlanc has been featured in a number of publications, fashion shows, and television in the United States and internationally. These include Mercedes New York Fashion Week, Marie Claire, Red Eye, The Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, USA Today, and The Face Magazine. He has competed on Project Runway and Project Runway All Stars. Leblanc teaches fashion design and installation at Columbia College Chicago.

Justin LeBlanc Design 2021 Collection, Look #1
2020
Mesh, 3D printed name-tag, Deconstructed Throw Beads
1 size fits all

Justin LeBlanc Design 2021 Collection, Look #8
2020
Mesh, 3D Printed/Casted Crystals, Wires, Cotton knit,
1 size fits all

"Can you see me?"
2019
Wood, 3D Printed/Casted Ears, Gold Acrylics, 24k Gold Leaf
7 inches x 5 inches x 2 inches

Artist Website

Andy Slater is a Chicago-based media artist, sound designer, teaching artist, and disability advocate. He is the founder of the Society of Visually Impaired Sound Artists and director of the Sound As Sight accessible field recording project. Slater was acknowledged for his art by the New York Times in their article, “28 Ways To Learn About Disability Culture.” Slater teaches at the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology and is a member of the Atlantic Center for the Arts’ Young Sound Seekers advisory board. He has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, and the Flux Factory in New York. His recent album, Unseen Reheard (No Index records), epitomizes the current tangent of his artistic practice.

Sound as sight: En Route: Jackson transfer, 2020
Binaural sound recording installed with accompanying wall text
Dimensions variable

Artist Website

Sky Cubacub identifies as a Filipinx, disabled, nonbinary queer from Chicago, IL. Cubacub started a clothing/accessory line, Rebirth Garments, in 2014. In 2015, they wrote “Radical Visibility: a Queer and Disabled Dress Reform Movement Manifesto” in order to articulate their ideology behind the clothing line, and this manifesto is taught in universities internationally. Cubacub is the lead editor of the “Radical Visibility Zine”, and the editor of a section on ethics and inclusion called “Cancel & Gretel” at literary fashion magazine “Just Femme and Dandy”. Cubacub has had over 45 fashion performances and lectured at numerous museums and universities. Rebirth Garments has been featured in publications such as Playboy, Huffington Post, and the New York Times. Sky was named 2018 Chicagoan of the Year by the Chicago Tribune and was a 2019/2020 Kennedy Center Citizen Artist and a Disability Futures Fellow.

Radical Visibility Collective, 2018
Video of Radical Visibility Collective performances Videography and editing by Totally QAF

Artist Website

Riva Lehrer is an artist, writer and curator who focuses on the socially challenged body. Lehrer is on faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an instructor in the Medical Humanities Departments of Northwestern University. Lehrer has shown nationally and internationally at places such as the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, and the United Nations. Lehrer has won numerous awards for both art and writing, and her memoir, Golem Girl, was published by the One World imprint of Penguin/Random House in 2020.

THE ZOOM PORTRAITS: Sharrona Pearl, 2021
Charcoal, Nero pencil, graphite, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on Mylar and illustration board
22 inches x 60 inches

Justus Harris identifies as a patient, artist, and educator based in Chicago and North Carolina. In 2016, Harris founded MedSculp, which creates art-based patient health education tools including those that translate medical data for people with diabetes. He was a Stanford Medicine X 2019 ePatient Scholar. Harris was the first Maker-in-Residence at the Chicago Public Library Maker Lab, and has exhibited his work at leading art and medical institutions. Justus was a 2020 Cross-Sectors Healthcare Resident at Elsewhere Museum in collaboration with Cone Health and Union Square Campus in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Terry’s March (red), 2014
Terry’s March (yellow), 2015
Terry’s March (green), 2016
3D printed plastic
3 inches x 3 inches x 3inches each