For National AccessAbility Week 2025 (May 25-31), CHASI Artist-In-Residence Sharon Strauss sought to represent the experience of people with disabilities in two new pieces.
The first shows draws on the facets and barriers to accessibility. Buildings and transport that only sometimes account for physical disabilities, aid that only comes after mountains of inscrutable paperwork, resources either too specific or stretched too thin.
The second in inspired by the concept of acceptance as accessibility. Sharon writes: “Policy and initiatives are both big parts of creating an accessible world, but that all has to begin with acceptance, empathy, and support, or they can become barriers instead.”
