Cripping the Galleries: Feminist Crip Paint Power
Explore color, figure, and empowerment in community with other makers. Artist Genevieve Ramos leads an afternoon of painting and reflection through a crip feminist lens.
This painting activity takes inspiration from the Art Institute collection and Ramos's series, Feminist Crip Paint Power, a multi-year project exploring the love, care, and interdependency in disability communities through the lens of disability justice and feminism.
Access doulas—people who are trained to creatively support a range of access needs—will be onsite throughout the workshop to assist participants.
All are welcome.
what to expect The workshop will take place in the Ryan Learning Center, Studio A. Enter at the Modern Wing public entrance on Monroe Street and the Ryan Learning Center will be on your left. The Ryan Learning Center is free for all, every day we're open, but a ticket is needed to enter the museum galleries. Art-making supplies, including paint, will be provided. Staff as well as access doulas will be on hand for support.
about the artist Genevieve Ramos (b.1990) is a Mexican-American queer painter, disability advocate, and cultural worker based in Chicago. Her vibrant paintings explore the intersections of feminism, disability justice, and identity, using bold color, figures, and symbolic imagery to tell stories of resilience and love that move us toward collective liberation.
Ramos’s work draws from her lived experience as a disabled artist and survivor, transforming personal narrative into collective empowerment. Through series like Feminist Crip Paint Power and Sustaining Spirit, she reimagines the body as both vulnerable and powerful--rooted in community, memory, and transformation. Her body of work collectively envisions our collective care, guided by her cripistemology, towards which she imagines an intersectional, collective liberation for all.
about the series Crip as a noun is pejorative, reclaimed by disabled people who embrace it as an outsider identity…
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This painting activity takes inspiration from the Art Institute collection and Ramos's series, Feminist Crip Paint Power, a multi-year project exploring the love, care, and interdependency in disability communities through the lens of disability justice and feminism.
Access doulas—people who are trained to creatively support a range of access needs—will be onsite throughout the workshop to assist participants.
All are welcome.
what to expect The workshop will take place in the Ryan Learning Center, Studio A. Enter at the Modern Wing public entrance on Monroe Street and the Ryan Learning Center will be on your left. The Ryan Learning Center is free for all, every day we're open, but a ticket is needed to enter the museum galleries. Art-making supplies, including paint, will be provided. Staff as well as access doulas will be on hand for support.
about the artist Genevieve Ramos (b.1990) is a Mexican-American queer painter, disability advocate, and cultural worker based in Chicago. Her vibrant paintings explore the intersections of feminism, disability justice, and identity, using bold color, figures, and symbolic imagery to tell stories of resilience and love that move us toward collective liberation.
Ramos’s work draws from her lived experience as a disabled artist and survivor, transforming personal narrative into collective empowerment. Through series like Feminist Crip Paint Power and Sustaining Spirit, she reimagines the body as both vulnerable and powerful--rooted in community, memory, and transformation. Her body of work collectively envisions our collective care, guided by her cripistemology, towards which she imagines an intersectional, collective liberation for all.
about the series Crip as a noun is pejorative, reclaimed by disabled people who embrace it as an outsider identity…
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