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Disability in the arts
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The list Disability in the arts includes
Chuck Close, Maud Lewis, Yinka Shonibare, Benda Bilili! and Ryan Gander.
The list consists of 25 members
and 8 sublists.
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Frida Kahlo
Mexican painter (1907–1954)
Overview: Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired ...Date of birth: 6 July 1907Date of death: 14 July 1954Age: 47 (age at death)Nationality: MexicanOccupation: PainterGender: FemaleHeight: 5' 3" (160 cm)
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Freaks
1932 film by Tod Browning
Overview: Freaks (also re-released as The Monster Story,Forbidden Love, and Nature's Mistakes) is a 1932 American pre-Code drama horror film produced and directed by Tod Browning, starring Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams ...
Release date: 20 February 1932Genre: Drama, Horror, ThrillerDirector: Tod BrowningProducer: Tod Browning, Dwain EsperA circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his ... 0
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Chuck Close
American painter (1940–2021)
Overview: Charles Thomas Close (July 5, 1940 – August 19, 2021) was an American painter, artist and photographer. He made massive-scale photorealist portraits. Close often painted abstract portraits of himself and ...Date of birth: 5 July 1940Date of death: 19 August 2021Age: 81 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: ArtistGender: Male 0
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Maud Lewis
Nova Scotian folk artist
Overview: Maud Kathleen Lewis (née Dowley; March 7, 1903 – July 30, 1970) was a Canadian folk artist from Nova Scotia. Lewis lived most of her life in poverty in a small house in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia, achieving ...Date of birth: 7 March 1903Date of death: 30 July 1970Age: 67 (age at death)Nationality: CanadianOccupation: ArtistGender: Female 0
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Sandra Alland
Scottish-Canadian writer, artist, publisher, performer, filmmaker and curatorOverview: Sandra Alland is a Glasgow-based Scottish-Canadian writer, interdisciplinary artist, small press publisher, performer, filmmaker and curator. Alland's work focuses on social justice, language, humour and ... 0
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Benda Bilili!
2010 Democratic Republic of the Congo film
Overview: Benda Bilili! is a 2010 documentary by Renaud Barret and Florent de La Tullaye, produced by Yves Chanvillard and Nadim Cheikhrouha (Screenrunner).Release date: 13 May 2010Genre: Documentary, MusicDirector: Renaud Barret, Florent de La TullayeCast: Leon Likabu, Roger Landu, Coco Ngambali, Cubain Kabeya, Paulin Kiara-Maigi, Maria Barli DjongoProducer: Renaud Barret, Yves ChanvillardWriter: Renaud Barret, Florent de La TullayeSummer 2009. Five paraplegics and a young able-bodied teenager light up the stage in front of an entranced audience of 8000 people... 0
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Yinka Shonibare
British artist
Overview: Yinka Shonibare CBE, RA (born 1962) is a British-Nigerian artist living in the United Kingdom. His work explores cultural identity, colonialism and post-colonialism within the contemporary context ... 0
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Mouth and foot painting
painting done with mouth and feet instead of hands, usually by an artist with a disability
Overview: Mouth and foot painting is a technique to create drawings, paintings and other works of art by maneuvering brushes and other tools with the mouth or foot. The technique is mostly used by artists who through ... 0
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Ryan Gander
British artistOverview: Ryan Gander OBE (born 1976) is a British artist living and working in Suffolk and London in the UK. Over the past two decades, Gander has established an international reputation through a vast and plu ... 0
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Superfest International Disability Film Festival
film festival
Overview: Superfest International Disability Film Festival is a juried film festival held in the San Francisco Bay Area. Superfest is the longest-running disability film festival in the world. In addition to fe ... 0
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DaDaFest
Disability arts organisation based in Liverpool, UK
Overview: DaDaFest is a disability arts organisation based in Liverpool, UK. It delivers an international, biennial festival and organises other events to promote disability and deaf arts from a variety of cultural ... 0
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12.Overview: Shape Arts or Shape is a British arts charity, working across the UK and internationally, funded by Arts Council England. It provides opportunities for disabled individuals wanting to work in the arts ... 0
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The Blind Leading the Blind
Artwork by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Overview: The Blind Leading the Blind, Blind, or The Parable of the Blind (Dutch: De parabel der blinden) is a painting by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, completed in 1568. Executed ... 0
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The Blind Girl
Artwork by John Everett Millais
Overview: The Blind Girl (1856) is a painting by John Everett Millais which depicts two itinerant beggars, presumed to be sisters, one of whom is a blind musician, her concertina on her lap. They are resting by ... 0
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Creativity Explored
Nonprofit in San Francisco, California
Overview: Creativity Explored (CE) is a nonprofit organization in San Francisco that hosts a day program for developmentally disabled adult artists. Located in the Mission District and Potrero Hill, CE functions ... 0
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Sad Inheritance
1899 painting by Joaquín Sorolla
Overview: Sad Inheritance! (Spanish: ¡Triste herencia!) is an 1899 oil painting by Spanish artist Joaquín Sorolla. The painting was held by Episcopal Church of the Ascension in New York for many years, until it ... 0
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Overview: Blind musicians are singers or instrumentalists, or in some cases singer-accompanists, who are legally blind.Occupation: Musician 0
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104 Films
film production companyOverview: 104 Films Limited is a film production company founded by director Justin Edgar and producer Alex Usborne in 2004. They specialise in the representation of disabled and disadvantaged talent, both on screen ... 0
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ReelAbilities
US film festival
Overview: ReelAbilities is the United States' largest film festival dedicated to showcasing films by, or about, people with disabilities. It was founded by JCC Manhattan in New York City in 2007. 0
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