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Articles by Mara Mills
Behind the Scenes: Bespoke Spirits Packaging Design Process
In the competitive world of premium spirits, packaging is more than just a protective shell for the liquid inside—it is a powerful storytelling tool. At the heart of this lies the expertise of a bespoke spirits packaging consultancy, like Studio Garcés in Barcelona, which specializes in crafting distinctive, high-end designs that resonate with a brand’s identity and consumer expectations.
Disability Activists Bring Wisdom From the Pandemic to New Struggles Under Trump
The article below is an adapted excerpt from the introduction of How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic, an anthology recently published by NYU Press that chronicles experiences of ableism and diverse disability activism in New York City (and beyond) during the first four years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The anthology’s authors are a collective of disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent, and nondisabled scholars, students, activists, lawyers, journalists, artists and librarians.
The Art of Christine Sun Kim
On the art of Christine Sun Kim RIDING THE SUBWAY to the opening of the Christine Sun Kim exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in February, I thought about how her work had become a feature of the visual environment of the city over the past several years, hijacking advertising spaces with her charcoal sketches and quivering all-caps handwriting.
THE CRITIC REFLECTS
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The Authoritarian Personality in Modern Art
TALK BY MODERN ARTISTS IN this century usually puts itself forth in two recognized modes. We are familiar with the backgrounding statement, or the “how it was done” fill-in. Studio lore and specifics about process or ambiance reach a ready public appetite. But when they speak, artists just as eagerly confide what it feels like to be an artist and offer homilies about the justification of art in the world.
How To Pick The Perfect Boutique Earrings To Compliment Your Look
Have you ever seen a pair of trendy earrings you absolutely love, worn by celebrities or fashion influencers but quickly find out they look better on them than on you? Earrings may seem like a small accessory to compliment your look but the earrings you wear can alter your appearance. Among other accessories, earrings sit closest to your face and their designs can influence how your face looks.
Crip Authorship: Open Square: NYU Press
An expansive volume presenting crip approaches to writing, research, and publishing. Crip Authorship: Disability as Method is an expansive volume presenting the multidisciplinary methods brought into being by disability studies and activism. Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez have convened leading scholars, artists, and activists to explore the ways disability shapes authorship, transforming cultural production, aesthetics, and media.
The Wuhan Survivor Tree
“It’s really blossoming now.” My sister texts me on her walk home from the hospital, where she runs one of the ventilator programs. “Flowers?” I reply. It’s March 2020, the start of spring. “Virus.” A week later: “It’s really really bad. Lot of sick doctors and nurses getting placed on ventilators.” We switch from texting to phone, and she tells me about a sick ward that seems remote from my everyday life, 80 blocks south. This is before the around-the-clock sirens.
A Listening Tour of the AFB Talking Book Archives
05/28/2021 In 2015, AFB won the first of two major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities to begin digitizing Helen Keller’s massive collection of correspondence, photographs, and other papers under the guidance of archivist Helen Selsdon. Five years later, the digital Helen Keller Archive is the most accessible online archive around, made publicly available in time for the centennial celebration this autumn of the founding of AFB.
Mara Mills talks to Sara Hendren about design and disability
Books November 11, 2020 • Mara Mills talks to Sara Hendren about design and disability A montage of images shows Hendren’s Slope: Intercept project with its original set of five modular single-step ramps, made of wood, metal casters, leveling feet, and a piano hinge on each. The ramps stack and nest and combine in multiple ways; in these images, they’re in use by both skateboarders and wheelchair users.
A Digital Time Capsule Captures Art Inspired by Covid
My father was a historian. Artistic Director Mara Mills directs Katori Walker in her piece, Today I Buried My Mother, expressing the pain of loss from Covid. He taught me to love the voices of the people who were there at specific moments of history: the diaries of Victorian ladies, slave narratives, letters from soldiers, poetry from hometown newspapers, meeting minutes of choir societies, and histories of the WPA (Works Progress Administration).
Review: Peekskill Rises Up Against Racial Injustice - Photographs by Ocean Morisset
“An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.” -Nina Simone Boy Justice by Ocean Morisset Ocean Morisset’s unique, Black Lives Matter, Corona sensitive, exhibit is displayed in the large windows on what was the Worker’s Comp Building on Bank, Main and N. Division Sts., Peekskill, New York. The exhibit was made possible by a Peekskill Art Grant from Bre Pettis and additional funding from Ben Green, Chuck Newman, Stacey Phillips, and Randy Turner.
Crip Authorship
Description Praise An expansive volume presenting crip approaches to writing, research, and publishing Crip Authorship: Disability as Method is a comprehensive volume presenting the multidisciplinary methods brought into being by disability studies and activism. Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez have convened leading scholars, artists, and activists to explore how disability shapes authorship, transforming cultural production, aesthetics, and media.
Design with Disability
The “Accessible Icon” by Brian Glenney and Sara Hendren began as design activism: the artists defaced existing disability access symbols with red and orange vinyl stickers. Today, their so-called “active wheelchair” logo has been adopted as the new standard by institutions and cities around the world.
OPTOPHONIC READING, PROTOTYPING OPTOPHONES
Optophones convert type into patterns of audible tones. Initially designed in the United Kingdom in the 1910s to give blind readers direct access to inkprint materials such as books, new versions continued to be produced in the U.K., Germany, and United States through the 1970s, chiefly in the context of post-World War II rehabilitation. Reading with an optophone requires learning a tonal code: correlating sonic motifs to letters.
The Early History of the Cochlear Implant: A Retrospective
Importance Histories of cochlear implant (CI) technology have often been inaccurate owing to the confusion of terms and anatomical situations or to biased reporting. This retrospective, published shortly after the death of inventor William F. House—and more than 50 years after placement of the first CI—offers a precise account of the early experimental period. Objective To clarify the first steps in the development of the CI, ie, an electrical stimulating device partially inserted into the cochlea.
The Early History of the Cochlear Implant: A Retrospective
Importance Histories of cochlear implant (CI) technology have often been inaccurate owing to the confusion of terms and anatomical situations or to biased reporting. This retrospective, published shortly after the death of inventor William F. House—and more than 50 years after placement of the first CI—offers a precise account of the early experimental period. Objective To clarify the first steps in the development of the CI, ie, an electrical stimulating device partially inserted into the cochlea.
LUNA PARK: A PROJECT FOR ARTFORUM
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