Believe it or Not
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The Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum hosted four artists for a summer residency in 2022. Each one was given a topic based on images within our Enquirer Collection that the Museum deemed critical to re-examine. The artists and their topics are:
Ben Blount – Racism
HR Buechler – Animal Exploitation
Rick Griffith – Ableism
Kelly Walters – Sexism
Words by Rick:
Of the four themes—and four participants—our theme was ableism. A term that we were just becoming more sensitive to, something to help us with understanding how we consciously and subconsciously discriminate against people who have a spectrum of abilities not always what we think of as ‘normative’—To better understand Ableism we have to move well past wheelchairs, curb-cuts, and hearing aids to how we view bodies, how we idealize both women and men, and how we view birth defects (more sensitively and collectively called congenital disorders)—we also have this enormous archive to explore. What’s the connection and what do these artifacts—in these places have buried in their pasts.
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