Zine Making in the Art Nest
Cost
Free
Where
The Art Nest at Maxon Mills
37 Furnace Bank Road
Wassaic, NY 12592
When
Saturday, April 13, 2024
12–5 PM
Who
Celebrate Autism Awareness Month in the Art Nest with the launch of disability art activist Jen White-Johnson's Autistic Joy Mini Zine Garden and Community Interactive Zine-Making Station! Come create a paper zine garden of autism acceptance, disability joy, and inclusion! Visitors will have the opportunity to make their own mini zines and are welcome to add to or take home zines from the garden.
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About Jen White-Johnson
Jen White-Johnson (she/they) is an Afro-Latina Disabled/Neurodivergent Artist, Disability Cultural Activist and Design Educator whose visual work explores the intersection of content and caregiving with an emphasis on redesigning ableist visual culture. As an artist-educator with Graves disease and ADHD, her heart-centered and electric approach to disability advocacy bolsters these movements with invaluable currencies: powerful, dynamic art and media that all at once educates, bridges divergent worlds, and builds a future that mirrors her Autistic son’s experience. Jen has presented her activist work and collaborated with a number of brands and art spaces across print and digital such as Coachella, Target, and Adobe. Her photography and design work has been featured and written about in Art in America, Juxtapoz Magazine, AfroPunk, and most recently, After Universal Design: The Disability Design Revolution, and is permanently archived at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National African American Museum of History and Culture in DC. Jen currently lives in Baltimore, MD with her husband and son.
Her creative practice shines best when she can infuse disability design justice, photography, zine making, and art activism to center Neurodivergent mothering, caregiving and joy as important acts of resistance in a society that so often devalues disabled communities. Jen has a love for making kid-centered crip/disability artwork and design. She works and plays best with others that believe in a community-building approach to activism and design. She loves how art and design can express and uplift intersectionality themes and be used as a blueprint to create alternative support structures. Jen loves hugs, headbands, and music, You can find her doing lots of Disability advocacy artists' talks and presentations online or in person at schools and universities, as well as leading poster/zine/collage making /design workshops too.
Zine Making in the Art Nest
Cost
Free
Where
The Art Nest at Maxon Mills
37 Furnace Bank Road
Wassaic, NY 12592
When
Saturday, April 13, 2024
12–5 PM
Who
Celebrate Autism Awareness Month in the Art Nest with the launch of disability art activist Jen White-Johnson's Autistic Joy Mini Zine Garden and Community Interactive Zine-Making Station! Come create a paper zine garden of autism acceptance, disability joy, and inclusion! Visitors will have the opportunity to make their own mini zines and are welcome to add to or take home zines from the garden.
About Jen White-Johnson
Jen White-Johnson (she/they) is an Afro-Latina Disabled/Neurodivergent Artist, Disability Cultural Activist and Design Educator whose visual work explores the intersection of content and caregiving with an emphasis on redesigning ableist visual culture. As an artist-educator with Graves disease and ADHD, her heart-centered and electric approach to disability advocacy bolsters these movements with invaluable currencies: powerful, dynamic art and media that all at once educates, bridges divergent worlds, and builds a future that mirrors her Autistic son’s experience. Jen has presented her activist work and collaborated with a number of brands and art spaces across print and digital such as Coachella, Target, and Adobe. Her photography and design work has been featured and written about in Art in America, Juxtapoz Magazine, AfroPunk, and most recently, After Universal Design: The Disability Design Revolution, and is permanently archived at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National African American Museum of History and Culture in DC. Jen currently lives in Baltimore, MD with her husband and son.
Her creative practice shines best when she can infuse disability design justice, photography, zine making, and art activism to center Neurodivergent mothering, caregiving and joy as important acts of resistance in a society that so often devalues disabled communities. Jen has a love for making kid-centered crip/disability artwork and design. She works and plays best with others that believe in a community-building approach to activism and design. She loves how art and design can express and uplift intersectionality themes and be used as a blueprint to create alternative support structures. Jen loves hugs, headbands, and music, You can find her doing lots of Disability advocacy artists' talks and presentations online or in person at schools and universities, as well as leading poster/zine/collage making /design workshops too.
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