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20 Artists In Inaugural Class Of Disability Futures Fellows Receive $50,000 Grants

A new fund created by the Andrew W. Mellon and Ford Foundations awards unrestricted grants to fellows working in a range of disciplines including architecture, dance, multimedia and journalism.
Riva Lehrer's 2010 charcoal mixed-media collage portrait of Alison Bechdel, author of the <em>Dykes to Watch Out For</em> comic strip and the memoirs <em>Fun Home </em>and <em>Are You My Mother?</em>

is a painter born with spina bifida, reimagines "socially challenged" bodies with often fantastical imagery. a DeafBlind poet, is a leader in the Protactile movement, a language that communicates through touch. is a filmmaker whose work explores "the capacity" of Black queer/trans social

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