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Giving Way 2, 2025. Hand-crocheted yarn strips (wool, linen, cotton, synthetic), hand-stitched. approx. 40 x 32 inches Painter and fiber artist Pooja Pittie reflected with me on the natural associations viewers draw from her vibrant abstractions. I live in a city, I grew up in a city, but also, I don't know what it's like to go on these long hikes, climbing mountains or going camping. I have some memories of doing things like that when I was a kid, but I got diagnosed whe

(Edited transcript from the fifth annual hybrid Disabled Artist Symposium, held online and at the Multicultural Center at Illinois State University) BERT: All right. Hello, everybody in the Zoom world and hello everybody at the Multicultural Center here in scenic Normal, Illinois. My name is Bert Stabler, and I'm very happy to announce is our fifth annual Disabled Artists Symposium, happening here and online and I would like to just, before I do anything, offer a few remarks

Image from Maybe an Image of AI (digital photo series), 2022-ongoing The title of Dagmar Herzog’s 2024 book The Question of Unworthy Life derives from Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche’s 1920 book Die Freigabe der Vernichtung lebensunswerten Lebens, or “Permission to Annihilate Life Unworthy of Life”, which Herzog identifies as the “main template” for the Nazis’ eventual mass murder (officially called “euthanasia”) of disabled people. She cites a Nazi textbook that differentiat