updates
claude wittmann was the recipient of the 2021 Won Lee Fellowship. We are please to highlight and support his important work on “survival art”.
We are thrilled to announce that the winner of the 2021 Won Lee Fellowship is claude wittmann.
Each year, the Won Lee Fellowship recognizes a hard-working artist from the Deaf, Mad, and/or Disability-identified communities.
claude wittmann’s activist art practice explores access to housing, long-term community and survival. You can find out more about his practice at claudewittmann.ca
Congratulations, claude!
The Won Lee Fellowship is an annual award generously provided by Won Lee, and distributed by Tangled Art + Disability.
Tangled Art + Disability and Disability Justice
#BlackLivesMatter
Disability justice must be rooted in the dismantling of white supremacy, anti-blackness and colonialism. Any less cannot be considered true justice. Tangled Art + Disability has donated funds and is sharing resources for our community.
Tangled Art + Disability Response to COVID-19
In light of recent local and global developments with regard to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tangled regrets to announce that we will be suspending gallery hours until further notice.
We do so with the intent to help mitigate the spread of the virus during this critical window of time. Our concern extends not only to our gallery visitors, but artists, curators, as well as Tangled team members.
Tangled Art + Disability Call for Board Members
Tangled Art + Disability is seeking Board of Directors members who will bring dedication and vision into our organization. We require persons with a variety of qualifications such as financial expertise, fundraising, donor relations, legal, policy development and human resources knowledge as well as familiarity with contemporary disability arts.
Tangled is strongly committed to equity within its communities and to recruiting diverse members of the Board from all backgrounds and experience. Tangled encourages applications from all qualified candidates including persons with disabilities, First Nations, Métis and Inuit persons, members of racialized communities and LGBTQIA2S-identified persons.
projects
Crip Times: A Podcast Series
Disabled people have long been experts at staying at home, and getting creative with new ways to stay in community with one another. At the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown, many of us were wondering how we could maintain the sense of intimacy and connection that we get from gathering in crip arts spaces. Out of this desire, Crip Times was born: a new interview podcast series produced and hosted by Yousef Kadoura, Kayla Besse, and Kristina McMullin. Crip Times is a project of Bodies in Translation and Tangled Art + Disability and hosted on Drew Gurza’s Wheels on the Ground podcast network.
Click here for more information about Crip Times and to listen to our episodes
Access Activator Website
The Access Activator network started in 2015 as a partnership between Tangled, British Council, Bodies in Translation, supported by Canada Council for the Arts and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to bring the principles of Relaxed Performance to Canada. Over the past five years, we have hosted trainings and events across the country, building capacity for the production of accessible arts and culture.
The Access Activator website offers informative videos, Relaxed Performance training materials, reports on Relaxed Performance, a community directory, and more.
View the Access Activator Website here
exhibitions
UPCOMING EXHIBIT
THAUMATURGY
Through the art and science of ‘wonder-working’, Thaumaturgy generates an immersive and participatory call to action to fight for the future of our planet’s well being. Animated through the respective artforms of 4 Indigenous Disabled artists, the 4 Elements of Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water meet at a juncture to story ceremony and sacred space for feeling and healing. Tobacco, Sage, Cedar and Sweetgrass work to resist the formalities of a gallery, giving way to living tableaus that tie together the 4 elemental installations.
awards
AWARD RECIPIENT
2020 WON LEE FELLOWSHIP WINNER
Tangled is proud to announce that the winner of the 2020 Won Lee Fellowship, recognizing hard-working artists from the Deaf, Mad, and Disability-identified communities, is Michel Dumont.
“It’s a great honor to receive this award at such a competitive level even more taking in count how many other amazing artists were also considered. I feel particularly touched by the fact that Won Lee personally considered my work worthy of this award and would like to take this opportunity to extend my personal thanks to him.” – Michel Dumont
documents
DOWNLOADABLE DOCUMENTS
CRIPPING THE ARTS ACCESS GUIDE
This Access Guide is for people coming to Cripping the Arts on January 24th, 25th and 26th. Inside, you will find information about the space in which the symposium will be held and about other things you might want to know before coming to the event. Read and download the Access Guide
DOWNLOADABLE DOCUMENTS
CRIPPING THE ARTS PROGRAM
We are so happy to have you here at the second Cripping the Arts at Harbourfront Centre. We are gathered here as people who share in a belief that Deaf, Disability, and Mad arts and activism change not only how we understand difference, but how we create and experience arts and culture as well. Read and download the Program
