Gender, Queerness, Disability, and the Arts
A Conversation with A. Laura Brody and Brontë Grimm

ADMISSION & CAMPUS ACCESS:
Admission is free. Reservations are required. Campus access is limited to registered guests and USC students, staff, and faculty with current USC ID.

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HYBRID EVENT INFO:
This event is available for in-person and remote attendees. If you wish to attend virtually, use this Zoom webinar link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/91464748313

DESCRIPTION:
Artist and curator A. Laura Brody and award-winning and internationally exhibited multidisciplinary artist and queer and trans disability activist Brontë Grimm will discuss their artistic trajectories, aesthetic practices, and experience as a disabled, queer, trans artist working today. Grimm is a featured artist in Brody’s group show, Opulent Mobility, which will be on display at USC’s Hoyt Gallery at the Health Sciences Campus with descriptions available in a Braille booklet.

Live ASL translation will be provided. 

Bios:

A. Laura Brody is an artist and curator who sculpts for the human body and its vehicles. She founded and co-curates Opulent Mobility, a series of exhibits that reimagine disability and chronic illness as opulent and powerful. Her art has been shown at the Ikouii Creative, ACE/121 Gallery, Brea Gallery, Charles River Museum of Industry, Westbeth Center for the Arts, California State University at Northridge, Gallery Expo, Dora Stern Gallery at Arts Unbound, and World of WearableArt. Brody works as a professional costume maker and designer, artist, and educator. She is passionate about reuse, sustainability, and reimagining disability and chronic illness.

Brontë Grimm is an award-winning and internationally exhibited narrative photographer, multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and Jewish queer trans disability activist whose artwork focuses on initiating a dialogue about issues facing the disabled via a Jewish and queer lens. They were the recent subject of the short documentary Kathryne: Uncensored, where they discussed accessibility in the arts, and their artwork has been published in various literary journals and art magazines. Grimm’s activist work has led to numerous academic lectures and presentations on disability rights and issues facing the disability community, including ableism in media narratives and disability representation.

Related events:

Reimagining Disability Narratives through Artistic Practice
A Lecture by A. Laura Brody:
Tuesday, September 24, 2024, at 12:30 p.m.
Taper Hall 301
For more info, click HERE.

Opulent Mobility: Opening Panel & Reception
Wednesday, September 25, 2024, at 12 p.m.
Mayer Auditorium, Health Sciences Campus
For more info, click HERE.

Opulent Mobility Art Exhibition
Wednesday, September 25 to Friday, October 25, 2024
Hoyt Gallery, Health Sciences Campus
For more info, click HERE.

Presented by USC Visions and Voices. Organized by Pamela Schaff (Medical Education, Family Medicine, and Pediatrics), Julie Van Dam (French and Italian), Erika Wright (Medical Education and English), Sabrina Derrington (Pediatrics), and Ron Ben-Ari (Internal Medicine and Medical Education). Co-sponsored by the Keck School of Medicine’s HEAL (Humanities, Ethics, Art, and Law) Program and the Center for Bioethics at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

Art:
Brontë Grimm, Devour, 2019
Archival print on semi matte paper, 16” x 20”