Chicago Innovators: Artist Sandie Yi wins national fellowship to expand disability culture
“I feel that getting this resource is not just for myself,” Sandie Yi said. “I’m thinking about my collaborators and also other disabled artists.“
By Stephanie Kim
Chicago Innovators: Artist Sandie Yi wins national fellowship to expand disability culture
“I feel that getting this resource is not just for myself,” Sandie Yi said. “I’m thinking about my collaborators and also other disabled artists.“
By Stephanie KimSandie Yi’s goal as an artist is to create disability culture and to make the arts more accessible. Thanks to a $50,000 grant, she’ll be able to dream up different ways to continue that work in Chicago.
Yi joins Reset to share what it means to be named a 2022 Disability Futures Fellow, and how the disability community in Chicago helped her embrace her identity.
GUEST: Sandie (Chun-Shan) Yi, Chicago artist; assistant professor in the department of art therapy and counseling at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; coordinator for arts and culture projects at Access Living