Visual Retrospection: Rhyming Art with Access

Authors

  • Matt Rader Associate Professor in Creative Studies, Creative Writing at UBC- Okanagan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v10i2.798

Abstract

This work of creative nonfiction memoir reflects on the philosophical, ethical, and creative perspectives that informed the author’s book-length lyric essay, Visual Inspection. The essay connects the practices of art-making and access-making as concomitant ethical activities.

Author Biography

Matt Rader, Associate Professor in Creative Studies, Creative Writing at UBC- Okanagan

Matt Rader is an Associate Professor in Creative Studies, Creative Writing at UBC- Okanagan Campus. His primary area of interest is the writing of lyric poetry. Guided by poetic history, tradition, form, and genre, Matt's poems engage specifically with the post-colonial imaginaries and eco-cultures of Vancouver Island and the central Okanagan. Since 2014, his research has included a significant interest in embodied poetics, disability aesthetics, and access, which he has explored through social practice art and creative nonfiction. He also works in short fiction, the primary theme being working-class history and lives. Matt has won numerous awards and prizes for his writings, including the I Am Accessible Teaching Award (2017) for his efforts to create an accessible learning environment, as well as grants from competitive funding agencies such as SSHRC and Canada Council for the Arts.

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Published

2021-10-08

How to Cite

Rader, M. (2021). Visual Retrospection: Rhyming Art with Access. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 10(2), 226–236. https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v10i2.798

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2021): VIBE: Challenging Ableism and Audism Through the Arts

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Creative Works

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