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Art, Health, Equity Series “Access, Activism, and Aesthetic Revision: Crip Methods for Art History” 125 Chapman Hall This talk brings together the core arguments of The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique (2024), Hospital Aesthetics: Disability, Medicine, Activism (2025), and Rehabilitating the Asylum: Mental Health Justice and Contemporary Art (2027) to demonstrate... Read More →
100 Hamilton Hall Salvador Jiménez-Flores (b. 1985, Jalisco, México) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the politics of identity, double consciousness, colonization, migration, "the other," and futurism through socially conscious installation, public, and studio-based art. His practice spans community-based work, drawing, ceramics, prints, and mixed media sculpture. Jiménez-Flores holds an MFA in Drawing from... Read More →
100 Hamilton Hall Sheida Soleimani is an Iranian-American artist who lives in Providence. The daughter of political refugees who were persecuted by the Iranian government in the early 1980s, Soleimani makes work that melds sculpture, collage and photography and highlights her own critical perspective on historical and contemporary socio-political occurrences in Iran. She focuses on... Read More →
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