Access/Points: Approaches to Disability Arts is a series of conversations, workshops, and artist projects that explores ability as the crux of radical inclusion and access in the arts and beyond. The series investigates the ways that artists, cultural producers, and institutions are redefining disability and accessibility in contemporary art while reorienting power structures by destabilizing our notions of neutral public spaces and arts organizations and move towards inclusive body politics and social infrastructures.

All events are free and open to the general public. RSVP is required.

CUE Art Foundation and partner facilities are wheelchair accessible. Sign Language Interpretation and Real Time Captioning are available upon request with at least two weeks advance notice. Please contact Lilly Hern-Fondation at (212) 206-3583 or lilly@cueartfoundation.org to submit your request. Service dogs are welcome. There is an all-gender, ADA compliant, single stall bathroom in the gallery. The space is not scent-free, but we do request all those attending come low-scent. Children are welcome. The nearest wheelchair accessible MTA subway stations are Penn Station and Herald Square Station.

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Part 1 - Let's Keep in Touch Youth Workshop
Sunday, November 12, 2017, 12:30-3:30pm
Venue: Queens Museum

Let’s Keep in Touch (LKiT) is a multifaceted collaborative project which investigates tactility in the context of art via community dialogue, embodied learning, and the development of new critical practices and methodologies. Produced by Carmen Papalia and Whitney Mashburn in 2016, the project aims to set a precedent for tactile engagement and haptic criticism to become viable practices within contemporary art.  MORE>>

Part 3 - Rethinking Illness: Art, Health, and the Environment Interdisciplinary Symposium
Friday, June 29, 2018, 3:00-7:00pm
Venue: School of Visual Arts
Free and open to the general public. RSVP is required.

On the occasion of the new temporary public art installation Out of Thin Air by Sari Carel, commissioned by More Art in City Hall Park, we are proud to present Rethinking Illness: Art, Health, and The Environment, an interdisciplinary symposium on art, illness, and environmental activism. This multi-part gathering will bring artists, academics, public health advocates, and environmental activists into an intimate dialogue with the audience through presentations, short workshops, actions, and discussions which traverse the social, medical, historical, political, aesthetic, and embodied dimensions of time and illness as they relate to how access to wellness is impacted by policy and built environment. 

Access/Points is organized by CUE's 2017 Public Programming Fellow, Jeff Kasper,

in partnership with Social Practice Queens at Queens College CUNY.

Jeff Kasper received his MFA in social practice from Queens College CUNY and an interdisciplinary BA, also from CUNY where he studied at the Anne & Bernard Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York. In addition to his work with CUE, he works with More Art and Social Practice Queens (SPQ) at Queens College CUNY and is a recipient of the 2017/18 SHIFT Residency at Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space.

This series is supported by the Queens Museum, SVA Department of Visual & Critical Studies, More Art,  and Social Practice Queens at Queens College CUNY.