Distopia Podcast

DIStopia Podcast presents "No Room for Outsiders at the Paris Outsider Art Fair" written and recorded by Jill Vyn and Christopher Smit, Co-Directors of DisArt. Printed by Hyperallergic.

No Room for Outsiders at the Paris Outsider Art Fair-DisArt - 10:24:17, 1.39 PM by DIStopia

No Room for Outsiders at the Paris Outsider Art Fair by Jill Vyn and Christopher Smit of DisArt by DIStopia

DIStopia cohosts Jill and Chris visit Cultura Collective and chat with both Stefanie Rosales, curator and Program Director for the Cook Arts Center, and local artist Javier Torres. As you listen to these brief interviews, we encourage you to consider the relationship between disability and culture and how two artists, Reyna Garcia and Javier Torres, draw the viewer into conversations about their lived experience of disability.

Join your hosts Jill Vyn and Christopher Smit for an exploration of ArtPrize 9 from Grand Rapids, Michigan. This time around we are talking about whether or not you have to be in Grand Rapids to get value from the ArtPrize experience. In this episode Chris and Jill take a few minutes to chat with Amelea Pegman, Managing Director of ArtPrize, and Perspective 3-D founder, Sherry Rennick, to consider ways that ArtPrize is working to make the festival more accessible to those of us choose not to head downtown for one reason or another.

DisArt is beginning a series of brief DIStopia podcast episodes that will be produced during ArtPrize and shared through the ArtPrize Daily Blog. In this first episode of their ArtPrize 9 series for the DIStopia podcast, DisArt co-directors Chris Smit and Jill Vyn offer reflections of the independent films It Ain’t Over and Dina (pronounced “Deena”) from Wednesday evening’s ArtPrize on Screen event that was held at the Ladies Literary Club on Sheldon Blvd.

Join DIStopia cohosts Jill Vyn and Christopher Smit as they explore the complicated reactions to the recent death of Telethon Maven Jerry Lewis. This episode features a candid conversations with Smit's mother who was on the board of directors for the Chicagoland Chapter of the MDA and cofounder of Jerry's Orphans, activist Mike Ervin.

Host Christopher Smit introduces DIStopia, a podcast by and for disabled people. Always real, never stereotypical or sugarcoated; don't miss the first episode, coming at the end of April!