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…
Category: Artists
Urban Surrealism
This show connects the works of a disabled photographer who has been living, watching, and documenting urban life through a disabled man's lens as well as a photographic one. read more
Conversations with Strange Beauty: Steve Kean
Body image remains a relevant topic in many different contexts. “Front to Back” focuses on the context of disability. Spina Bifida often results in the necessity of using a wheelchair. People look down on us literally and figuratively. We have historically suffered great indignity, even for sake of medical education. Being the subject of treatment…
Conversations with Strange Beauty: Mark Brose
My work in metal is about question and perception and story. It’s about metaphor and self-portrait. It’s about laughter and surprise and pain; the contrast of precious and non-precious. Is any material, or person, more valuable than another? Can a coloured elastic replace a ‘precious’ gem? Should it? What does a suspended piece of steel…
Conversations with Strange Beauty: The Scratched Lens Collective
The Scratched Lens Collective is a collective of five photographers: Mark Brose, Allan Cullen, Steve Kean, Peter Owusu-Ansah and Kathy Toth. They came together with several other photographers as part of a master class with Vincenzo Pietropaolo, in 2012. read more
Conversations with Strange Beauty: Carrie Perreault
Impossible Conversations comes from the idea that sometimes you want to have a conversation with someone but you’re so scared the words won’t come out right, or they’ll misinterpret your intent, or they won’t hear you the way you want to be heard. And sometimes when you’re playing this conversation over in your head, you…
Conversations with Strange Beauty: Barbara Greene Mann
My Art comes from subconscious thoughts, dreams, and unseen possibilities. I paint in watercolour and love the flowing qualities of this medium. Sometimes by adding collage I increase the novelties I may discover. Guided by My Muse, I can transform these images into new attainable achievements, discovering the tales I am here to tell. read…
