Opulent Mobility at USC

Many thanks to University of Southern California Visions and Voices for bringing this Opulent Mobility retrospective exhibit to life! Thanks also to Professor Julie Van Dam and Pamela Schaff at USC and all the folks who made this possible.

And as always, deep gratitude for the artists: Shelley Barry, Megan Bent, Ciara Chapman, Kat Chudy, Vanessa Cruz, Julie Forbush, Patricia Fortlage, Kellie Gillespie, Bronte Grimm, Ellen Mansfield, Joy Murray, Abigail Stockinger, Emily Tironi, and Rachel Ungerer. You rock my world.

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OPULENT MOBILITY
Featuring artists whose work reframes and recalibrates conventional approaches to disability and chronic illness, Opulent Mobility is a group exhibition that opens at the Keck School of Medicine’s Hoyt Gallery on September 25. The show runs September 25th through October 25th.

EVENTS
Reimagining Disability Narratives through Artistic Practice
TUE | 9•24•24 | 12:30 PM
TAPER HALL 301, UNIVERSITY PARK CAMPUS
On the day before the opening of Opulent Mobility, artist and curator A. Laura Brody will help us imagine a world defined by disability-centered ethics
and aesthetics.

Opening Event and Panel
WED | 9•25•24 | 12 PM
MAYER AUDITORIUM, HEALTH SCIENCES CAMPUS
Curators A. Laura Brody and Anthony Tusler, artist Patricia Fortlage, occupational therapist and Limitless Dance co-founder Debbie Wang, and USC professor Julie Van Dam will address the pertinence of disability art practice to disability ethics and aesthetics.

Gender, Queerness, Disability, and the Arts
TUE | 10•1•24 | 11 AM
TAPER HALL 309K, UNIVERSITY PARK CAMPUS Multidisciplinary artist and queer and trans disability activist Brontë Grimm will discuss their artistic trajectories and aesthetic practices with curator A. Laura Brody.
ADMISSION IS FREE. RSVP AT VISIONSANDVOICES.USC.EDU

Presented by USC Visions and Voices. Organized by Pamela Schaff (Medical Education, Family Medicine, and Pediatrics), Julie Van Dam (French and Italian), Erika Wright (Medical Education and English), Sabrina Derrington (Pediatrics), and Ron Ben-Ari (Internal Medicine and Medical Education). Co-sponsored by the Keck School of Medicine’s HEAL (Humanities, Ethics, Art, and Law) Program and the Center for Bioethics at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.