Museum of American Poetics Exhibits

Golden Bodies: The Poetics of Disability

This exhibit focuses on the images created by artists with disabilities, portray a bone truth personhood underlying false social norms.

 

  U.S. Freak Shows
History of Freak Shows
     
   
ADAPT
 

Inspiration Porn
     
 
Disability Rights Movement
   
     
Disability Social History Project
San Fransisco 504 Demonstration Photos
San Fransisco 504
Demonstration Photos
       
      Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt
Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt
 
 
Disability Studies
     
     
Ben Bahan

Ady Barkan
     
    Jennifer Bartlett
Jennifer Bartlett
 
     
   
Sheila Black
 
Josh Blue
Josh Blue
   
    Randolph Bourne
Randolph Bourne
 
Bernard Bragg
   
     
Marca Bristo
    Ray Charles
Ray Charles
 
       
Clark
John Lee Clark
   
     
 
Deaf American Poetry: An Anthology
by John Lee Clark
   
    Peter Cook
Peter Cook
 
       
   
Justin Dart Jr.
 
       
  Michael Davidson
Michael Davidson
   
      Leonard Davis: "Constructing Normalcy"/Disability Studies Reader
Leonard Davis: "Constructing Normalcy"
Disability Studies Reader
Amber DiPietra
Amber DiPietra
     

Roky Erickson
 
   
Larry Eigner
Larry Eigner
 
     
   
Jose Feliciano
 
     
    Bob Flanagan: Pain Journal
Bob Flanagan
Flying Words Project
Flying Words Project
   
   
Vernon Frazer
 
       
     
Kenny Fries

Rosemary Garland-Thompson
     
  Lisa Gill
Lisa Gill
   
Rose Ann Goodman
Rose Ann Goodman
     
    Patrick Graybill
Patrick Graybill
 
         
       
Woody Guthrie
   
Beth Haller
   
         
  Mario Hernandez
Mario Hernandez
     
     
Judith Heumann
       
   
Al Hibbler
 

Blind Willie Johnson
     
      Violet Juno
Violet Juno
     
   
Ilya Kaminsky
 

Sarah Katz
   
  Helen Keller
Helen Keller
 
Kevin Kling
Kevin Kling
   
    Laurie Clements Lambeth
Laurie Clements Lambeth
 
     
   
Harlan Lane
  Dorothy Lange
Dorothy Lange
 
       
  Ella May Lentz
Ella May Lentz
 

J. Schuyler Long
   
       
Robert Lowell
         
      Neil Marcus
Neil Marcus
 
       
     
Marlee Matlin
    Blind Willie McTell
Blind Willie McTell
 

Me and My Brother
     
      Dorothy Miles
Dorothy Miles
 
  Joseph Miles
Josephine Miles
   
         
   
Moondog
   
        Frank Moore's Web of All Possibilities
Frank Moore
Leroy Moore
Leroy Moore
 
 
Karen Nakamura
   
       
Susan Nussbaum
Susan Nussbaum
   
  Outsider Pages
Outsider Art Pages
     
    Robert Panara
Robert Panara
 
   
        Debbie A. Rennie
Debbie A. Rennie

Douglas Ridloff
       
         
 
Ann Sexton
     
       
Kim Shattuck
Cassie Simmons
Cassie Simmons
       
      Eddie Swayze
Eddie Swayze
  Miriam Lerner
The Heart of the Hydrogen Jukebox
Miriam Lerner & Don Feigel
     
       
Allen Ginsberg Project:
The Heart of the Hydrogen Jukebox

Art Tatum
     
     
Sunaura Taylor
 
       
   
Titicut Follies
 

Titicut Follies (1967) by Frederick Wiseman
     
     
Clayton Valli
Clayton Valli
     
   
Tyler Vile
 
       
     
Doc Watson
       

Jillian Weise
     
   
Hank Williams
   

Brian Wilson
     
      Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder
 
Patrisha Wright
   
   
Maysoon Zayid