Maverick S.M. Smith (they/them)
Canada - Ontario
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Clayton (he/him) is a theatre producer, arts administrator, Relaxed Performance and access consultant and coordinator. He trained with Include Arts (UK), British Council Canada’s Access Activator Prog ...Canada - Ontario
Jason Herterich is a chronically ill and disabled podcast producer residing in Toronto, Canada. He is the host and creator of Discomfort Zone, a podcast featuring narrative-driven stories on chronic i ...Canada - Ontario
Rana is a community-based researcher with a PhD in Music (Ethnomusicology) and a passion for the arts. She is particularly interested in applying arts-based, imaginative, and participatory design meth ...Canada - British Columbia
Laurie M Landry attended Wells’ Island Mountain School for the Arts in the late 1970s, and completed the Emily Carr University of Art & Design’s Fine Arts Techniques program in 2008. She has since co ...Canada - British Columbia
Hello, my name is Carmen and I'm joining from BC, Canada. I am no artist but am committed to living a life full of creativity and I also work with university students with developmental disabilities. ...Canada - Ontario
Rebecca is an accomplished audio describer and seasoned performer. In 2020 she founded Superior Description Services where she writes and voices image descriptions for art, creates (extended) describe ...Canada - Quebec
seeley quest is a trans environmentalist, working in literary and body-based composition, curation and facilitation. Sie presented in the San Francisco Bay Area 2001-14, including with Sins Invalid 20 ...Canada - Ontario
Ophira Calof is a multi-award-winning Disabled writer, performer, and producer. Her work weaves together music, comedy, and storytelling, centring disability and chronic illness experience, working to ...Canada - Ontario
NATHAN SARTORE (he/him) is a queer and disabled theatre artist who is dedicated to bringing inclusion to all arts spaces. In 2020, Nathan started a YouTube channel with his partner, dedicated to norma ...Canada - Ontario
Patricia is a Toronto based choreographer, filmmaker, educator, performer, and theatre creator. She is 1/5th of the Shakespeare in the Ruff Leadership Collective. In 2018 she co-won a Dora Award for ...Canada - Ontario
I am a mixed media encaustic painter from rural Ontario. I am diagnosed Bipolar II with General Anxiety and PTSD. My work is a response to my life situations.Canada - Quebec
Joe Jack & John is a theatre company that produces original, bilingual, multidisciplinary shows combining video, dance, and the spoken word. Our artistic approach is deeply humanistic and inclusive; o ...Canada - Ontario
Cara Spooner is a choreographer, caregiver and caretaker. Her performance work has been presented nationally and her Audience Handbook has been translated and printed internationally. She previously w ...Canada - Ontario
Megan is an arts worker and artist who works primarily from home with non-profits as well as other artists and arts groups with a focus and specialization on accessibility and advocacy, operations and ...Canada - Ontario
Mari "Dev" Ramsawakh is a disabled, non-binary and Indo-Caribbean-Canadian multidisciplinary artist and storyteller. Born to Guyanese and Trinidadian parents, they were born and raised in the suburbs ...Canada - Nova Scotia
Aislinn Thomas is an interdisciplinary artist. Her work responds to everyday experiences and relationships, creating projects that range from poignant to absurd, at times straddling both. She gratef ...Canada - Quebec
Alyse Tunnell is an accessibility advocate and writer currently working as a freelance content creator and accessibility consultant. Recently, Alyse was awarded a spot in the Art Volt’s Mentorship pro ...Canada - Ontario
Heather Caplap (she/her) is a disabled queer arts manager and curator with a passion for creative access in the arts. Her practice focuses on fostering lasting community connection by creating spaces ...Canada - Ontario
Matteo Esposito has been wanting to write, produce and direct a play all his life...and he finally got his chance. His first play, Will You Be My Valentine, was staged at two places in the region of H ...Canada - Ontario
Kirsi (she/her) is a sick, mad and disabled writer and arts administrator who loves growing inclusive and collaborative teams and community spaces. As an arts nonprofit professional, she specializes ...USA
I’m a deaf mom of 3 kids. I have a website SoCalDeafMom.com I love to share products reviews.Canada - Ontario
Alexandra Hickox (she/her) is a Deaf emerging artist. Alexandra graduated from OCADUniversity, with a Bachelor of Fine Art in photography and a minor in integrated media. In 2019 was awarded her Maste ...Canada - British Columbia
Hi, my name is Vincent Bianca Aleksandria Chorabik-Ratchford, but you can call me Vee CR for short. I use they/them pronouns and identify as non-binary and (dis)abled. I am an artist, writer, and ed ...Canada - Ontario
Working primarily in sculpture and performance, Carrie Perreault employs a wide range of elements, including asphalt, concrete, drywall, plaster, rubber and other ordinary materials in her practice. I ...Canada - British Columbia
Incendiary Sweet is Victoria Feige, an indie rock emerging singer/songwriter. Her music is a mix of Metric meets Jack Johnson. She is a world champion in adaptive surfing and competes for Team Canada. ...Canada - Ontario
David Bobier is a hard of hearing and disabled media artist whose creative practice is researching and developing vibrotactile technology as a creative medium. This work led to his establishment in 20 ...Canada - Manitoba
Jenel Shaw is a self-taught visual artist. Her artistic focus is learning new ways to craft and explore artistic expression. Jenel graduated with her masters in Disability Studies from the University ...Canada - Ontario
Wy Joung Kou is an interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto (Treaty 13 Territory) with a practice rooted in frameworks of disability justice. Their body of work spans mosaic, poetry, sound, movement, ...Canada - Ontario
I am a mad-identified research and writing consultant with a commitment to celebrating the ways of knowing and being in the world that have historically been discredited and dismissed. My personal art ...Canada - British Columbia
Solo performer, humorist, published author, poet, actor on legit stage and in film, storyteller, keynote speaker, dancer, all over the English speaking world. Born with significant facial difference. ...Canada - Manitoba
Winnipeg artist Abbott creates deeply personal works using photography, sculpture,film and installations which speak to memory, resilience, trauma violence and survival. Using silicone casts of her bo ...USA
Laura Brody sculpts for the human body and its vehicles. She developed and curates Opulent Mobility, a series of exhibits that re-imagine disability as opulent and powerful. Her art has been shown at ...Canada - Ontario
Lindsay is a multi-disciplinary artist, curator, and producer working in the arts and not-for-profit sector. Lindsay devotes most of her time exploring creative ways that accessibility aesthetics impa ...Canada - Ontario
Alexia Vassos is an actor, writer and voice over artist currently based outside the GTA. A graduate from the Theatre and Drama Studies joint program between the University of Toronto Mississauga and S ...Canada - Quebec
Salima Punjani is an Access Activator, M.S.W and Multisensory Artist based in Montreal, Canada. She is particularly interested in how biological data can be transformed to create artful experiences of ...Canada - Ontario
Kyle’s a professional street performer, actor, and award-winning entrepreneur building up people and communities. Kyle was also the first OUT LGTBQ+ Busker on North America’s busker festival circuit t ...Canada - Ontario
Adam has operated as an independent Artist and Disability Advocate since 2003, where his work has included blogging, photography, filmmaking, and public speaking. He has presented his film work at the ...USA
United Kingdom
Caspian has worked in arts and technology for over a decade and has worked with hundreds of arts and cultural organisations in Europe, North America and Australia. Before starting Accessible by Desig ...Canada - Quebec
A disabled mad sober disabilities studies student queer punk artistCanada - New Brunswick
Acadian artist and art teacher Ysabelle Vautour started out working in the mental health and disability support sector. She began painting two years ago when she decided to paint and create art every ...Canada - Ontario
Shannon Taylor-Jones is an emerging artist working in Toronto and London, Ontario. She obtained a BFA with a major in Drawing and Painting from OCAD University in 2016, and a post-graduate certificate ...Canada - Alberta
Blissful Dance is a a new dance company in Calgary, Alberta. We emerged out of the dire need for accessible digital programming created for people with different needs. We are currently creating 10, 2 ...Canada - Ontario
Aaron Kursietis is a craftsman and fine woodworker based in Ontario. Having studied fine art in Vancouver, and Montreal and cabinet making in Toronto, Aaron spends his time between custom furniture de ...Canada - Ontario
Emily Cook is a visual artist, arts educator, and curator. She is Education and Accessibility Programs Director at Critical Distance Centre for Curators. Her curatorial focus is on Crip and Accessible ...Canada - Ontario
Collette Radau is an Alberta-born, Toronto-based emerging theatre artist whose focus is on new play development and devised works. She is a graduate of Red Deer College’s Theatre Performance & Creatio ...Canada - Ontario
Fat, trans, and mad. Meek is a dancer, instructor, producer and director with a long winding history in production. He creates and participates in immersive and provoking art that comes from personal ...Canada - Ontario
Using mixed media images, tactile sculpture, and audio narrative, Valentin Brown pieces together an ongoing mythology of monsters that reframes his experience of Madness with awe, humour, and hope—and ...Canada - British Columbia
Canada - Ontario
Emily Gillespie is an author, disability activist and daydreamer. She has an MA in Disability Studies. Dancing with Ghosts is her first novel. She is working on her second grand funded novel. She also ...Canada - OntarioCanada - Nova Scotia
Kat Germain is an Audio Describer and Relaxed Spaces Specialist, providing accessibility, consultation and teaching services in both live and recorded contexts. Her work is grounded in Disability Just ...Canada - Nova Scotia
I am a white 53 year old female. I was recently diagnosed with a chronic illness and am new to identifying as disabled. After studying painting and photography at the Nova Scotia College of Art and ...Canada - Ontario
Susana Meza (she/they) is a Venezuelan multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto who creates hand-crafted sculptures, textiles, drawings, and paintings that help the artist cope with the world around ...Canada - Ontario
I’m a queer and disabled artist based in Toronto, fighting for disability justice.Canada - Ontario
Jody Chan (they/them) is a writer, drummer, organizer, and therapist based in Toronto. They are the author of haunt (Damaged Goods Press), all our futures (PANK), and sick, winner of the 2018 St. Lawr ...Canada - Ontario
Claudette Abrams is a multi-media artist, curator, art advisor and art educator. She produces international exhibitions for both public and private arts organizations. She has served on juries for pub ...Canada - Quebec
Canada - Ontario
Faye Harnest is an artist living in Toronto. Since her brain injury five years ago, disability and mental health has become the subject of her work.USA
Canada - British Columbia
Alex Masse, AKA Fairything, is a 20-year-old writer and musician residing in what is colonially known as Surrey, BC. They’re a poet, songwriter, omnichordist, and more. The arts are a longtime love of ...Canada - British Columbia
Canada - Ontario
SK Sabada is a mad white disabled queer non-binary PhD student and artist who works in the areas of film, performance art and alternate reality gaming. They are highly interested in exploring social m ...Russia
Canada - Manitoba
Debbie Patterson is a playwright, director and actor. Trained at the National Theatre School of Canada, she is a founder of Shakespeare in the Ruins (SIR), served as Artistic Director for Popular Thea ...Canada - Ontario
Shay Erlich is a hard of hearing, multiply disabled, and genderqueer child and youth care practitioner, accessibility consultant and artist. Shay holds a MA degree in Child and Youth Care from Ryerson ...Canada - Ontario
I am an emerging artist who struggles with mental health. I am on disability and want to network so I can learn how to build my brand, inspire others, and eventually be self sufficient financially.Canada - Ontario
Timothy is an ASL-English interpreter who works in Toronto, Ontario. Before completing the ASL-English interpreting program, Timothy completed a Bachelor's Degree in History and Linguistics. At the sa ...Canada - Ontario
Lisa Anita Wegner is a filmmaker, performer, curator, producer and instructor at the haus of dada. Lisa is the creative producer of Mighty Brave Productions, a small award-winning multi-media producti ...Canada - Quebec
Canada - Quebec
Sarah Heussaff is a neurodiverse doctoral student based in Montréal, Québec, Canada (UQAM). She is a master’s graduate in Exhibition Arts and Professions (curating programm- MAE) from the Department o ...Canada - Ontario
I am a disabled artist who is trying to heal from lifelong abuse issues through making mixed media art in many forms and that includes visual art, installation, poetry and prose.Canada - Ontario
freygl is a queer, nonbinary multiply crip/mad, white, first-generation immigrant-settler, Ashkenazy Jewitch whose people are from present-day Moldova. fae is a writer, multi-disciplinary artist, craf ...USA
Samir Knego lives, writes, and occasionally paints in North Carolina, USA with a bright green wheelchair and a little black dog. He's the Life editor for dubble, an online publication focused on work ...Canada - Ontario
Christine Wu is a Hong Kong-born filmmaker and cultural worker living on Williams Treaties territory (Whitchurch-Stouffville, Ontario, Canada). She creates from a place of self-compassion, reflecting ...Canada - Ontario
I am a determined and energetic self-starter with a unique passion for making the arts accessible and inclusive for all. As a recent graduate of Ryerson’s Creative Industries program with a minor in D ...Canada - Ontario
Samantha Jackson is a documentary and editorial photographer currently living and working in Toronto, Ontario after growing up in Vancouver, BC. While currently working towards a Bachelor of Fine Arts ...Canada - Ontario
Janice Tsui is a multidisciplinary artist and educator dabbling in dance, music, and visual art.USA
USA
My name is Hanna Sheehan. I'm a queer and legally blind artist and writer based in the New York City Metropolitan area. My goal is to learn, grow, create and connect with meet like-minded folks in the ...Canada - Ontario
I am a graduate student at McMaster University leading a study exploring the experiences of actors with disabilities in the Canadian film and television industry.Canada - Ontario
Jen Roy (they/she) is a multiply disabled, queer and trans wheelchair dancer, multidisciplinary artist, and community worker. They work in the overlaps of dance, circus, disability consulting, and mob ...Canada - British Columbia
Troy Lindstrom is a visual artist based in Prince George, BC whose practice is primarily focused on digital art and illustration. Living with a disability and chronic pain his entire adult life, Linds ...Canada - British Columbia
With a keen eye and attention to detail along with the philosophy that food should evoke the trifecta of memory, emotion, and hunger in people, Jules Sherred is an unparalleled emerging talent in the ...Canada - Ontario
My name is Christina MacLellan and I recently graduated from OCADU in their drawing and painting program. It took me eight years to earn the degree because of substantial mental illness issues that le ...Canada - Alberta
Connor has nurtured a lifelong passion for theatre and accessibility, which led him to Public Relations as a channel to elevate his advocacy for the Deaf community and other marginalized groups. He cu ...Canada - Prince Edward Island
Alexis Bulman is a multidisciplinary artist with a studio practice based in Prince Edward Island. Throughout her practice she assumes the role of a facilitator, collaborator, researcher and builder of ...Canada - Ontario
Amethyst Barron is a nervous wreck who sometimes thinks of something funny. They are a non-binary, queer, mad and disabled comic, writer, and producer. They view comedy are a transformative experience ...Canada - Ontario
Hannah Bullock is an artist and writer based in Tkaronto, Ontario. Hannah graduated from the printmaking program at OCAD University in 2018, and is currently pursuing her Master’s of Fine Arts at York ...Canada - Ontario
Gloria C Swain is a MAD multidisciplinary artist/curator, disability writer, photographer, performer and social justice advocate/activist.Canada - Ontario
Focusing on the individual & temporal nature of humanity’s physical evidence of existence, in this dynamically expanding information populous, while challenging my constant role as a disabled artist & ...Canada - Ontario
https://www.jayu.art/momentum/miechelleCanada - Ontario
Cathy Gordon is an artist, curator and producer, currently working at Luminato Festival Toronto. Previously, a contract producer with Luminato, she became Festival and Community Engagement Manager in ...Canada - Ontario
Olivia Brouwer is an award winning emerging artist from Hamilton, Ontario. In 2016, she graduated from the Art and Art History joint program, specializing in painting and printmaking, at the Universit ...Canada - Ontario
Emily Schooley is an award-winning actor and emerging filmmaker whose multi-disciplinary foundation informs her overall practice. She is the founder of Laughing Cat Productions, a Toronto-based compan ...USA
Steven T. Licardi is an Autistic social worker, spoken word poet, and performance activist working at the intersections of art and social policy. He travels domestically and internationally using the ...Canada - Ontario
Ryookyung Kim is a Tkaronto-based, interdisciplinary artist with a focus in visual storytelling through abstract illustration, zines, and ceramics. Through a queer, racial, and non-binary lens, their ...Canada - Ontario
I am a PhD student and post-secondary instructor in the Niagara region. My academic and writing focus is on literature and self-representations of mental disability (used to include Madness, neurodive ...Canada - Ontario
Pree (they/them) is an artist educator currently based in Tkaronto, originally from Tiohtià:ke. They're a child of immigrant settlers from Punjab. Pree's work centres centres their identity as a queer ...Canada - Ontario
Torey Urquhart is a disabled, neurodiverse, queer actor, director, writer and producer for theatre and film. She is also the Artistic Director of the Spur-Of-The-Moment Shakespeare Collective that run ...Canada - Ontario
Philiz Goh is a certified oncology registered nurse who cares for breast cancer patients. In 2015, she suffered a brain injury that caused her to have a few accessibility needs. During Philiz’s spare ...Canada - Ontario
Malicious Sheep is a disabled, non-binary, queer, multidisciplinary artist, photographer and vocalist from rural Simcoe County, ON, Canada. They are self-taught in many mediums including, but not limi ...Canada - Ontario
Stephanie Lines-Toohill is founder of Sparrow’s Nest Makerspace, TUTU Youth Textile Arts and is a Community PSW. She loves to wander in forests and make things from found objects. She has been leading ...Canada - Nova Scotia
Samantha Machado is a writer and emerging theatre creator originally from Winnipeg, currently living in Halifax. Her short plays have been featured at the National New Market 10-Minute Play Festival. ...Canada - Ontario
Christeen Salik (she/they) is a queer Pakistani-Canadian art-ivist, mindfulness facilitator, and Founder & Creative Director of Healing Hearts Through Art (h2art). Through combining art, mindfulness, ...so-called Australia
TextaQueen has been widely and wildly showing their fibre-tip marker and other decolonial creations for over two decades, from beloved bedroom shrines to worshipped white walls. Through collaborative ...Canada - Ontario
Sean Lee is an artist and curator exploring the notion of disability art and accessibility as the last avant-garde. His methodology reframes embodied difference as a means to resist traditional aesthe ...Canada - Ontario
Kristine Maitland is a presenter, public/guest speaker, performer and workshop facilitator . She is also a researcher and freelance writer who covers a variety of areas including issues involving ment ...Canada - Ontario
Julie Nowak (M.Ed.) is an educator, activist, consultant, and soon-to-be podcaster based near Tkaronto (known as Toronto, Canada). With a background in education, community development, public health, ...Canada - New Brunswick
Christiana Myers is a curator, writer, museum educator, and artist living in Menagoesg/Saint John, New Brunswick. She holds a BFA from Mount Allison University and a MLitt Curatorial Practice from the ...USA
Megan Bent is a New England based artist and teaching artist. She received her MFA and Graduate Certificate in Disability Studies from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in 2012. She received her BFA ...Canada - Ontario
USA
I'm the Director at a disability cultural center, and we want to lift up and support Deaf & disabled arts and culture makers. Our capacity is definitely limited, but we'd love to be in community with ...Canada - Ontario
Sage Lovell is a Deaf queer nonbinary genderfluid femme artist who likes to work their magic, using different art mediums to shift perspectives and spaces. Most notable recent works include “Creative ...Canada - Ontario
I am a creative dance instructor sharing seated and standing virtual movement experiences. I practice the HAES (health at every size) philosophy and compassionately welcome people with varying physica ...Canada - British Columbia
Veronique West is a non-binary artist, facilitator, and peer mental health advocate of Polish descent, based on the occupied and unsurrendered lands the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. ...United Kingdom
Aminder Virdee is a British South Asian artist, writer, activist, lived experience and qualified access consultant, and a Trustee at UK’s leading disability-led live music accessibility organisation A ...Canada - Ontario
Canada - Manitoba
Erika Lincoln artist based in Winnipeg, Canada. Over the past 20 years she has exhibited in galleries, media art festivals, and museums in North America, Europe, and Australia. She has been awarded nu ...United KingdomCanada
Kelsie Acton is a neurodivergent access consultant, researcher and choreographer. She is currently the Inclusive Practice Manager at Battersea Arts Centre, the world's first Relaxed Venue. Her PhD res ...Canada - Alberta
Landon Krentz is a bilaterally profoundly Deaf artist who is completely bilingual in American Sign Language (ASL) and English. As a Deaf artist, Landon brings a unique perspective to the roles of Dire ...Canada - Ontario
! I'm a sick and disabled first-generation Canadian-born Filipina. I write about the biopolitics and narratives of chronic illness.USA
Photographer, model, stitcher, stick n poker, stylist - I do a little bit of everything. I have fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and suspected ADHD, so I appreciate and want to work with other disabled ...