Art/Access Lab: Know Your Rights

Art/Access Lab: Know Your Rights Presented in Partnership with Access Living & Cuerpos Justificados Art/Access Labs foster a vibrant disabled artist ecosystem through cross-discipline and cross-impairment professional development activities. *Hybrid Event* Attend in person or via Zoom Doors at 1:30pm Event starts at 2:00pm Event ends at 4:00pm Guest Presenter: Chris Ramos, Community Development Organizer, Latinx and Immigration, Access Living Guest Artists: William Estrada Genevieve Ramos Online Facilitator: Terri Lynne Hudson How can we know—and claim—our rights related to disability, immigration, free speech? How can we use our creative practice to navigate, share, and defend these rights? This community gathering invites artists with disabilities and allies to learn about our rights and use art to help defend these rights for ourselves and others. Blending practical information with artistic activities, this interactive event aims to build solidarity and create resources to share with neighbors, friends, and colleagues. Chris Ramos of Access Living will guide us through our rights, offering special attention to the intersection of disability rights and immigration rights, and how these rights apply to disabled immigrants who encounter immigration officials. Then we’ll invite attendees to create mini-zines for community distribution, contribute to a collaborative artwork, and to screenprint and embellish protest posters.  Virtual participants can contribute to a digital zine via Canva or join a breakout room to discuss and share accessible mutual aid efforts and resources. Through these activities, we strengthen our ability to protect ourselves, support our community, and participate in collective resistance. RSVP for Art/Access Labs: Know Your Rights Art/Access Labs are centered around artists with a lived experience of disability including Deaf, disabled, sick, neurodivergent, and Mad artists, and those working through their relationship to these categories, working in all mediums. Anyone who is invested in fostering a vibrant disabled artist ecosystem in Chicago is encouraged to participate. Advanced registration is required in order to receive the zoom link. Meet Our Guest Partners Access Living is a disability service and advocacy organization based in Chicago. Since 1980, our organization has been challenging disability stereotypes, protecting civil rights, and championing social reforms to create an accessible and inclusive society for disabled people to live self-directed lives of their choosing. We offer vital services and supports for Chicagoans with disabilities, as well as consulting services to companies and nonprofits to help make their business practices more inclusive. We are a Center for Independent Living, and the majority of our staff and board are people with disabilities. Cuerpos Justificados (CJ), which translates to "Justified Bodies", is a disability-lead grassroots artist collective featuring intent...