Entrance to Gillespie Gallery of Art featuring a yellow wall with a black and white sign promoting Black Lives Matter, a wooden wall with a CADRUP AND RESIST sign, yellow art sculpture hanging, and photographs of people displayed in the gallery space

An art gallery display with five photographs of people, two blue benches with handwritten signs, and a large spiral-shaped yellow sculpture hanging from the ceiling.

Gallery with photographs of shirtless men, contemporary art installations, and colorful seating with phrases, in a modern art exhibit space.

Disrupt and Resist

DISRUPT AND RESIST is an exhibition of 7 contemporary disabled designers and artists engaging in disability advocacy through creative resistance and anti-ableist disruption. This exhibition amplifies the ways disabled artists show up for themselves and each other. Shining a light on the joy of their own lived experience, DISRUPT AND RESIST amplifies the mission of exploring accessibility, disability justice, radical joy, belonging, and inclusivity. Disrupt and resist means to advocate for access-centered protest, dismantling the desire for a non-disabled body. To honor the unique beauty of each individual, celebrating the diversity of minds and bodies that enrich our world. To proudly identify as disabled and neurodivergent, using our art and activism as tools for empowerment and transformation.

This exhibition brings together a beautiful range and cohort of disabled orNeurodivergent creators who use their art practice to inform and advocate for disability justice. The artists disrupt the narrative of disability through video to photography to sculpture and sound design.

The exhibition is co-curated by Alissa Maru and Jen White-Johnson. Please see gallery staff for any additional accessibility accommodations. Large print format materials are available at the reception desk.