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Simi Linton is an American arts consultant, author, filmmaker, and activist. Her work focuses on Disability Arts,
disability studies , and ways that
disability rights and
disability justice perspectives can be brought to bear on the arts.
[1]
Career
Linton was on the faculty at
Hunter College of the
City University of New York from 1985 to 1998, was co-director of the University Seminar in
Disability Studies at
Columbia University from 2003 to 2007, and was the
Hofstra University Presidential Visiting Scholar in 2006.
[2] She received the
Barnard College
Medal of Distinction in 2015,
[3]
[4] and an honorary Doctor of Arts from
Middlebury College in 2016.
[5]
In 1998, she founded Disability/Arts Consultancy.
[6]
Since then, Linton has worked with organizations such as
United States Artists ,
Whitney Museum of American Art ,
[7]
Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts ,
[8]
Gibney Dance ,
[9]
The Public Theatre , Dance/NYC,
[10]
[11] the
Margaret Mead Film Festival , and other cultural, activist and academic institutions.
In 2014, Linton and Christian von Tippelskirch produced and directed the documentary film Invitation to Dance .
[12] The film was based, in part, on Linton's memoir My Body Politic and her long history of activism. The film premiered at the
Santa Barbara International Film Festival in 2014,
[13] where it was nominated for a Social Justice Award by the Fund for Santa Barbara.
Linton was appointed to the
New York City Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission (2015)
[14] and the She Built NYC Committee (2018)
[15] by New York City Mayor
Bill de Blasio .
Publications
References
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"Disability/Arts/NYC Recommendations for CreateNYC" (PDF) . createnyc.cityofnewyork.us . Create NYC - City Of New York. July 6, 2017. Retrieved August 17, 2022 .
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"The Year in Review 2006" . news.hofstra.edu . News Hofstra University, New York. September 14, 2006. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .
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"Citation for Simi Linton" . barnard.edu . Barnard College Columbia University. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .
^ Boatman, Mark (June 4, 2015).
"Simi Linton Awarded Medal of Distinction from Barnard" . newmobility.com . New Mobility. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .
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"Middlebury Celebrates Commencement 2016" . middlebury.edu . Middlebury. May 29, 2016. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .
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"Disability/Arts Founder Simi Linton to Deliver 2016 Rudin Lecture" . mmm.edu . Marymount Manhattan. Retrieved March 1, 2022 .
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"An Etiology of Omission: Disability In and Out of Protest Art" . whitney.org .
Whitney Museum . Retrieved December 20, 2019 .
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"Executive Staff" . inclusioninthearts.org . Inclusion in the Arts. Archived from
the original on December 21, 2019.
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"DANT: The Disability/Arts/NYC Task Force — Gibney" . gibneydance.org .
Gibney Dance . Archived from
the original on December 21, 2019. Retrieved December 21, 2019 .
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"Disability. Dance. Artistry" . dance.nyc . Dance NYC Programs. Retrieved December 21, 2019 .
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"Disability Arts NYC Convening" . dance.nyc . Dance NYC News. Retrieved December 21, 2019 .
^ Manning, Shaun (April 10, 2013).
"Simi Linton announces 'Invitation to Dance' documentary" . blog.press.umich.edu . University of Michigan Press Blog. Retrieved March 1, 2022 .
^ Palladino, D. J. (January 29, 2014).
"Invitation to Dance" . independent.com .
Santa Barbara Independent . Retrieved December 21, 2019 .
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"Mayor Bill de Blasio Appoints New Members to the Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission" . City of New York . October 27, 2015. Retrieved December 21, 2019 .
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"De Blasio Administration Announces Panel To Commission Artwork Honoring Women And Women's History" . City of New York . June 20, 2018. Retrieved December 21, 2019 .
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