My career as a disabled artist who makes art about my experiences as a disabled trans person can be summed up via an excerpt from the last grant rejection letter I received:
“…while the members of the selection panel felt your art was evocative, accomplished, and beautiful, we collectively felt the subject matter of disability would disturb and upset art patrons. Your work was ultimately rejected because we felt it wouldn’t resonate with the public.”
…My reality.
@brontegrimm UuUuugh. That is… not a good reality. Thanks for being transparent with us.
> Would disturb and upset art patrons
This should be the criteria for an acceptance letter.
@brontegrimm Hm, you do German expressionism, which I really seem to enjoy (need to dome research but what I’m seeing is so evocative)
I also really like Bauhaus… maybe I have German-Art-Brain? (Though my taste also runs to abtract, abstract expressionism, brutalism, constructivism …)
@sivy well the majority of what you listed is in the broader category of Outsider Art, by artists who were outsiders to the greater art community, either because of radical (progressive) ideologies of the time, being queer, femme, a combo of the former, or Jewish or POC. It’s why I’m so drawn to Weimar era artists and German expressionism as a whole. There’s a great video by Kaz Rowe that I highly recommend:
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