SMFA at Tufts, Boston, October 28th, 2025. Join Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG), critic, curator, and senior editor at Art in America, Emily Watlington, artist Jeff Kasper, and co-curators of How do you throw a brick through the window, Laurel V. McLaughlin, TUAG, and Tanya Gayer, John Michael Kohler Arts Center for a conversation engaging disability culture in our contemporary moment.
About the speakers:
* Emily Watlington is a critic, curator, and senior editor at Art in America. Her writing focuses on disability, feminism, and those places where art and science meet.
* Jeff Kasper is an artist, writer, and educator working in public art, design, cultural accessibility, and social engagement. He creates text-based projects, social spaces, publications, games, digital media, exhibitions, community workshops, and participatory learning projects, often in partnership with organizations.
* Tanya Gayer is a curator and writer based in Sheboygan, WI. Her curatorial projects and research examine history-making processes embedded in archives, databases, governmental assimilation efforts, and algorithmic categorizations.
* Laurel V. McLaughlin, PhD is a writer, curator, art historian, and educator, working as a Curator and the Director of the Collective Futures Fund at Tufts University Art Galleries.
Register to https://artgalleries.tufts.edu/events/227-disability-culture-now-a-panel-with-emily-watlington-jeff-kasperr
