Bracy Appeikumoh

Bracy Appeikumoh is a writer and mixed-media artist whose work reimagines desire and pleasure, wholly divested from the diktats of empire and all of its baggage. She is burdened by the urgent need to restore, preserve, and disseminate indigenous ways of being and knowing.

I’ll be talking about creating spaces for care on the internet/old web.

Eliza Chandler

Eliza Chandler is the Executive Director of the Office of Social Innovation and an Associate Professor in the School of Disability Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her research explores the impact of disability arts and cultural accessibility on the achievement of disability rights and justice.

I will be speaking about how we can approach care in community as access through alignments with Hamarie’s critical access, Mingus’ access intimacy, and Papalia’s open access.

Casper Sutton-Fosman

Casper Sutton-Fosman (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and production designer. Their work centres around themes of belonging, haunting, monstrosity and their experience of the world through a trans, disabled, and Jewish lens. They hold an MFA in the Interdisciplinary Arts, Media, and Design from OCADU and are embarking on a PhD at Concordia University exploring trans/disabled identity, the politics of images, and curatorial practice as community care. 

My presentation will focus on the intersections of queerness/transness and disability through lens-based practices, centering community relationships to representation and visibility politics. 

Deepikah Bhardwaj

Deepikah Bhardwaj, an Indian immigrant and interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto, holds an MFA from OCAD University and is pursuing a PhD at York University. Her work explores nature, motherhood, hope, and nonhuman agency through biomaterials, encouraging a shift from human-centered narratives to multispecies kinship amid ecological crises.

Becoming Bad Mama reimagines care and community through a Crip lens, using painting, narrative, and lived experiences to expose motherhood’s structural inaccessibility and imagine more inclusive, interdependent futures.

Elizabeth Sweeney

Elizabeth Sweeney (E.) is a neurodivergent queer of Acadian settler decent, originally from rural Mi’kma’ki / Nova Scotia. She is a visual artist, arts researcher and curator who has worked in Deaf and disability arts communities for 20 years. Her work often explores histories of eugenics and ableism while considering how to centre crip ways of being into artistic and curatorial practice. 

I will talk about some recent projects and how my work is rooted in interdependent practice with other Deaf, Disabled, Crip and Mad artists. 

Lilian Radovac

Dr. Lilian Radovac is a disabled, working-class and queer scholar-documentarist based at the Lakeshore Village Artists’ Co-operative in New Toronto. Drawing on multiple methods and practices, her work explores the spatial contexts of urban memory and, presently, of her own experience of chronic illness and disability. Radovac spent ten years documenting her struggle for an accurate medical diagnosis across three different cities (Montreal, New York and Toronto), using photographs, field recordings and memoir to examine the condition of chronicity and how it determines access to medical care. She will discuss this evolving project and its implications in her talk.

iowyth hezel ulthiin

iowyth hezel ulthiin is a PhD candidate at Toronto Metropolitan University in the Communications and Culture department. io’s art practice combines dance, drawing, textiles, coding, and event-planning to investigate tactility as an informational surface.

You Are Everything You Do

The idea that you have to specialize and be just one thing is a western idea that conditions us to limit ourselves, to consider the act of doing a separate from life. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to be just one thing. You can be everything you are. 

The act of caring starts with belonging to ourselves. From a place of fullness we are able to move across the ground, to give more to those around us, to see more parts within those people we love, and to love more people. 

Art is a way of knowing ourselves, and allowing our art to be encompassing allows us to expand into all the directions of our being. I will be talking about interdisciplinary work as the ground of self-actualisation, drawing on the Siksika wisdom that says we become actualized first, before any of our other needs can be met. Here, I will present art as a conduit to life, able to absorb all other activities under its umbrella.

Molly McGregor

Molly McGregor is a multidisciplinary artist, social worker and therapist living in Toronto. Molly lives with Bipolar 1 and now specializes in supporting people with lived experiences with psychosis. Molly’s art and therapeutic practice blends puppet spectacle, community art initiatives and connecting to self love in the face of differences in our mental health .

In my presentation on community and care I will be discussing the movement through psychosis recovery using the tools of integrative art making and social work art therapy. I will be highlighting my work as a 1:1 therapist supporting folks living with and through psychosis to combat stigma in order to reconstruct a supportive and artistic community care network

Pam Patterson

Pam Patterson has had an active and varied career in the arts in positions such as Curator, Art in Public Spaces, The Banff Centre, to Educator, Art Gallery of Ontario. She is currently Assistant Professor, OCAD University, leading Art & Design Education Lab, Creative Research Inclusive Practices (CRIP) Lab, and 113Research, a research creation gallery. At WIAprojects, a feminist-inspired, community-based program, she facilitates projects and supports emerging artists, curators, and educators. As a queer disability artist, Patterson has exhibited and performed across Canada and internationally. 

I, as CRIP researcher, educator, curator and artist, reflect on disability’s potential to generatively hack aesthetic presuppositions made concerning outsider/insider communities, curatorial practices, and cultural objects. Reciprocity, CRIP/Mad chaos, and community inclusivity are notions that shift “care” from noun to active verb!  I draw examples from Renee Bouffard MacManus’ curatorial project The Art of Noticing and “my” current “art” exhibit at Tangled Arts + Disability (Sept 20 – Oct 19, 2025) , Ocular Occurrences: Sites of Perceptionmade in creative CRIP relation with Hri Neil.

Sean Lee

Sean Lee (he/they) is an artist and curator exploring disability art as the last avant-garde. Orienting toward the crip horizon, his practice centres access as an embodied politic. He is director of programming at Tangled Art + Disability and teaches, writes, and participates in conversations on disability arts and accessible curation internationally.

They will explore crip curation as a disability-led practice of care, where access is treated as a creative medium for building community and reimagining cultural spaces.

Ana Moyer

Ana Moyer is a disabled nonbinary queer settler writer and craft artist based out of Tkaronto and London, Ontario. An Art and Visual Culture PhD candidate at Western University, they are researching apprenticeship in contemporary tattooing with a focus on queer/disabled experience. Their research blends multidisciplinary approaches to art historical research with oral history methodology. They are a certified personal support worker, providing disability justice-focused care for queer clients. In their spare time, they are a published model, trade art, go birding, and make sweaters for their cat.