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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:7th Annual Creating Community Conference
DESCRIPTION:*Note: The Institute for the Humanities will cover the registration fee for any faculty\, staff or graduate students interested in attending a single day or all three days of the conference. Please contact the Institute staff at humin@umich.edu to coordinate the registration process.*\n\nHeld October 5-8\, 2026\, the Creating Community Conference brings together artists and professionals from progressive art studios* across the United States and beyond\, along with professionals active in disability arts\, rights\, and theory\, to discuss best practices\, advocacy\, and the evolving landscape of art and disability. This annual event\, a Creative Growth initiative launched in Oakland\, CA in 2019\, aims to foster dialogue and collaboration around the importance of inclusive creative spaces for artists with developmental disabilities and mental health differences.\n\nThis year's conference will be hosted in Detroit and Ann Arbor Michigan\, and is locally organized and led by the Progressive Art Studio Collective (PASC)\, with support from the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities\, and Library Street Collective. National administration and strategic support is being provided by Creative Growth\, in collaboration with the Progressive Art Studio Alliance (PASA).\n\nCCC7 invites both internal (studio staff and artists) and external (general public) audiences to engage with the art and practice of progressive art studios. The conference covers a range of topics from hands-on studio practice\, exhibiting\, collecting and representing artists with disabilities\, self-taught art\, outsider art\, disability studies\, mental-health\, radical pedagogy and more\, expanding the conversation on platforming the creative production of marginalized communities\, opening up the art world to disabled artists\, and the transformative power of art.\n\nTuesday\, October 6\, 2026: First Full Conference Day\nLocation: The Shepherd\, 1265 Parkview St\, Detroit\, MI 48214\n\n9:00-9:10AM: Opening Remarks\, Go over symposium schedule\n9:10-10:30AM: Icebreaker\n10:30-11:15AM: New Studio Presentations: How We Got Here     \n11:15-11:30AM: Break\n11:30AM-12:15PM: ABLE\, Trusts and Managing Funding for Artists with Disabilities\n12:15-1:00PM: Lunch (provided)\n1:00-1:30PM: Blackness and Disability: Intersections and Insights.\n1:30-2:00PM: Studio Facilitation Presentation 1: Somewhere Between Knowing and Not Knowing. Facilitating Conditions for Creativity.\n2:00-2:30PM: Studio Facilitation Presentation 3: Building Community with Disability Drawing Club\n2:30-2:45PM: Break\n2:45-3:15PM: Studio Facilitation Presentation 4: Tools of the Trade: Adaptive Practices and Creative Community\n3:15-3:45PM: Finding Connection Through Art: Independent Learning\, Mixed Media\, and Neurodiverse Creativity\n3:45-4:15PM: History in the Making: Academic Partnerships with Progressive Art Studios\n4:20-4:50PM: TBD Drawing Workshop\n6:30-9:00PM: PAS Short Film night. films by artists from PAS  (Open to the General Public)\n\nView the full schedule and register at https://myumi.ch/qwVRX.
UID:149751-21907055@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149751
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies,Visual Arts,Michigan Arts Festival,Humanities
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260915T161734
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261006T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261006T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Art Exhibit: Hands on Fire
DESCRIPTION:Jim Cogswell: Hands on Fire\n\n**August 31 to October 9\, 2026**\n**Public Reception: Friday\, September 18\, 4:30 to 6:30 pm**\n\nJim Cogswell’s Hands on Fire is a solo exhibition of mixed media drawings at the Residential College Gallery at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The exhibition features sixty works on paper completed between 2024 and 2026.\n\nThis body of work responds to Greek Cypriot filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis’ cinematic adaptations of three tragedies by Euripides dealing with the Trojan War and its aftermath: Electra (1962)\, The Trojan Women (1971)\, and Iphigenia (1977). The work is in close conversation with Vinyl Euripides (2022)\, Cogswell’s adhesive vinyl installation on three floors of the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation in Athens\, Greece\, which also responded to the cinematic trilogy. By following Cacoyannis’ adaptations\, Cogswell builds on a cross-cultural history of restaging these tragedies to examine the human suffering caused by war\, imperial overreach\, and abuse of power\; and the dehumanizing consequences of revenge as a course of justice.\n\nWithin each drawing multiple scenes from the three narratives are overlaid within single frames\, suggesting the unseen entanglements that bind these ancient stories into such a persistent vision of our human position.\n\nThe grid of paintings encircling the gallery proposes a linear narrative but delivers instead a sequence that loops and turns on itself\, a stuck frame that stutters until bursting in flames. The grid also evokes the net that is a central feature of the series--the web of fate and circumstance that governs each of our lives\, that determines who we are and what is possible for us at any given moment in history.\n\nThe drawings are also characterized by a repeated motif of hands as consuming flames. Hands have unlimited expressive and narrative potential. They testify to the centrality of making in the development of human cognition. They are reminders of the constructed world and the laborers responsible for bringing it into being. We use hands as a form of communication to shape and express our inner states. Hands teach us to feel and to reason\, to count and to indicate. They give us agency\, as creators but also as destroyers. They give form to our willingness to act in the world\, in greed or compassion.\n\n---\n\n**This exhibition is made possible with funding from the Stamps School of Art & Design and the University of Michigan Office of Research.**\n\nFrom the Artist\n\nI am grateful to the Modern Greek Program in the Department of Classical Studies\, College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts at the University of Michigan\, for their ongoing support for my research and the dissemination of this project.
UID:152223-21913394@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152223
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:arts,artists and curators,artists,Art History,art and design,art,Visual Arts,arts at michigan,Arts Initiative,Classical Studies,Exhibition,free,History
LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery
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