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Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities

(5 Days left to submit work)

(I totally forgot to post about this sooner. My apologies. If you know any Artist with Disabilities in the midwest USA, send this their way!!! It's going to reoccur in 2024 and 2025. I don't have any connection with ArtsMidwest, just wanted to put the info here for others.)

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Submission Deadline: May 22, 2023

Award Info: $3,000

Type: Grants & Fellowships

Eligibility: Regional; Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and the Native Nations that share this geography.

Categories: Craft/Traditional Arts, Photography, Drawing, Film/Video/New Media, Mixed-Media/Multi-Discipline, Painting, Sculpture

Description:

Arts Midwest is now accepting applications for the Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities, an award supporting accessibility in the arts and celebrating the work of disabled Midwestern visual artists.

The Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities supports and celebrates accessibility in the arts. It recognizes that the funding community in the Midwest has not historically invested in disabled artists and that increasing support for this group is an important part of increasing accessibility in the arts. It also advocates for the arts being viable employment, which is often overlooked by funding agencies supporting people with disabilities.

There are no requirements for how awarded funds are used, though awardees are encouraged to use it toward growing their art career. Awardees’ submitted work will be featured on the Arts Midwest website.  

From 2023–2025, this award will recognize 27 individuals (9 per year).

Eligibility Info:

We invite mid-career 2D and 3D visual artists with disabilities to apply for this award.

You can apply and get (way) more info on the ArtsMidwest website here

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i hate that every time i look for color studies and tips to improve my art and make it more dynamic and interesting all that comes up are rudimentary explanations of the color wheel that explain it to me like im in 1st grade and just now discovering my primary colors

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idk if it’s the mental illness but sharing literally any information feels like oversharing. i’ll be like “i skipped breakfast this morning” and immediately im like “i might as well have told them where i buried the money”

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There has been a lot of research about autistics over the years, but this one really took the cake!

This is what happened when researchers attempted to compare the moral compass of autistic and non-autistic people…

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“For years now, psychologists and psychiatrists have discussed the existence of ‘female Autism,’ a supposed subtype that can look a lot milder and socially appropriate than 'male’ Autism does. People with so-called 'female Autism’ may be able to make eye contact, carry on a conversation, or hide their tics and sensory sensitivities. They might spend the first few decades of their lives with no idea they’re Autistic at all, believing instead that they’re just shy, or highly sensitive. […] There’s a significant problem with the concept of 'female Autism,’ though. It’s a label that doesn’t properly account for why some Autistics mask their Autistic qualities, or have their needs ignored for years. […] Autistic women aren’t overlooked because their 'symptoms’ are milder. Even women with really classically Autistic behaviors may elude diagnoses for years, simply because they are women and their experiences are taken less seriously by professionals than a man’s would be. Additionally, not everyone who has their Autism ignored and downplayed is a female. Many men and nonbinary people have our Autism erased, too. To call the stealthy, more socially camouflaged form of Autism a 'female’ version of the disorder is to indicate that masking is a phenomenon of gender, or even of assigned sex at birth, rather than a much broader phenomenon of social exclusion. Women don’t have 'milder’ Autism because of their biology; people who are marginalized have their Autism ignored because of their peripheral status in society.”

— Devon Price, Unmasking Autism, [Introduction]

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this piece is criticizing many different failings of the church at once, but comment what you think it is ;)

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*yelling from a great distance* I LOVE YOU EVEN THOUGH YOURE A SINNER

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People are really out here saying they're in their villain era but what they really mean is that they're letting go and working through a bunch of unresolved religious trauma and guilt and shame and just doing things they enjoy despite the lil voice in their brain that's yelling at them. It's me I'm people.

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I recently brought up the possibility of being autistic to my therapist, emotionally preparing myself for hesitation or push back, but she instead suddenly began apologizing and getting out the numbers for local adult testing locations-

-because she had been under the impression that I already knew

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Tony Attwood, founder of the first diagnostic and treatment clinic for children and adults with Asperger’s, and author of The Complete Guide to Asperger’s Syndrome, agreed with Gould’s estimation of a 2.5:1 ratio of boys to girls. “The bottom line is that we understand far too little about girls with ASDs because we diagnose autism based on a male conceptualisation of the condition. We need a complete paradigm shift,” he said.

“We need to draw up a female version of Asperger’s that identifies girls on the basis of the way they present, and we need to do this as a matter of urgency: undiagnosed Asperger’s can create devastatingly low self-esteem in girls. In my experience, up to 20% of female anorexics have undiagnosed Asperger’s.”

Girls slip through the diagnostic net, said Attwood, because they are so good at camouflaging or masking their symptoms. “Boys tend to externalise their problems, while girls learn that, if they’re good, their differences will not be noticed,” he said. “Boys go into attack mode when frustrated, while girls suffer in silence and become passive-aggressive. Girls learn to appease and apologise. They learn to observe people from a distance and imitate them. It is only if you look closely and ask the right questions, you see the terror in their eyes and see that their reactions are a learnt script.”

Girls also escape diagnosis, said Attwood, because they are more social than boys with the condition. Their symptoms can also be missed because it is the intensity of their interests that is unusual, and not the oddity of what they do.

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“As a young girl, she may know that she is different, noticing that her interests veer away from those of her peers. She may prefer having only one or two friends, or to play in solitude, having an appreciation of and focus on specific interests. She might demonstrate an aversion to what is popular, what is feminine, or what is fashionable. Sensitive to textures, she might prefer to wear comfortable, practical clothing. She might appear naive or immature, as she is out of sync with the trends or the social norms. She might work very hard to “camouflage” her social confusion and/or anxiety through strategic imitation, by escaping into nature or fantasy, or by staying on the periphery of social activity. She might show different sides of her personality in different settings. “A girl with Asperger’s syndrome may suffer social confusion in silence and isolation in the classroom or playground but she may be a different character at home, the ‘mask’ is removed.” (Tony Attwood). At home, she might be more prone to releasing her bottled up emotions through meltdowns. She might be exhausted from the work of deciphering social rules or of imitating those around her to hide her differences. She might be anxious in settings where she is asked to perform in social situations. This could lead to mutism, escapism, or a focus on routines and rituals.”

— Asperger and Autism Spectrum: Women and Girls    By Kim Wutkiewicz