Access Access Program Series

This page has materials from an event series called “Access Access.” This series was organized by CRNY’s Artist-Organizer Kevin Gotkin. The events took place on Zoom in the summer of 2023. Kevin recorded the events and created some resources about each one.

The resources below are about accessibility. Here are two ways we talked about “accessibility”:

• We looked at how to build and grow accessibility. We call this “access design.” Organizations that want to do more accessible work need to learn how to do access design.
• We also looked at how accessibility can be used to make art. This includes how disabled artists make art. We call this “disability artistry” or “disability aesthetics.”

The title, “Access Access,” means a few things. It means making information about accessibility more accessible. It also sounds like a direct action chant, an urgent request. Access Access could also mean that “access” is a topic we talk about. But at the same time, “access” is something we do together so that we have what we need.

“Time-shifting” is when someone takes part in an event on their own schedule. Time-shifting is great because it helps get more information to more people. We hope you can time-shift with the resources below.

The materials feature ASL interpretation (Deaf + hearing teams), CART captioning (edited and time-synced), Spanish language interpretation, audio description, labeled sections within the YouTube recordings, graphic notation, and more information in the participation guides for each event.

This event launched the Access Access series. It serves as a grounding and introduction to access as a set of artistic tools and as a framework for organizing. We are joined by artist Jerron Herman, whose work has inspired the work we will do together.

This event is designed for a general audience, including artists, organizations, and activists.

MORE RESOURCES (Google Doc)

This event introduces an emergent ecological model for thinking about access. What we will call ‘access ecologies’ will allow us to map interdependencies (or the ways we rely on each other in webs of connection) and plan for more intricate access interactions than compliance- and regulatory-minded approaches to accessibility currently offer.

This event is designed for a general audience, including artists, organizations, and activists.

SLIDE DECK (Google Slides)

MORE RESOURCES (Google Doc)

This event involves a collaborative overview of current artistic methods that use access as primary compositional tools, with a focus on the U.S. art worlds. It features contributions from Taraneh Fazeli, Sean Lee, and Emily Watlington.

This event is designed for disabled artists and all are welcome.

MORE RESOURCES (Google Doc)

How do we prepare written materials to be inclusive of readers with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD)? In this session, we will be joined by expert Reid Caplan to look at some fundamental principles for translating documents in plain language and Easy Read formats.

This event is designed for a general audience, including artists, organizations, and activists.

SLIDE DECK (Google Slides)

MORE RESOURCES (Google Doc)