public art project: a summary

i dunno that there’s a visual representation of the website beyond just linking to said website, so that’s here [link]. 

 

as for what i was “attempting”, here’s an excerpt from the website:

I thought that I might push the work of incarcerated transgender artists and art depicting incarcerated transgender individuals.

However, I could find none…
 
Finding art on or by incarcerated individuals, I think, should not be nearly as difficult as it is. I believe that, as long as prisons exist, they should operate as spaces of education, aid, and rehabilitation; a major component of these, therein, is art that they can produce in the same ways as non-incarcerated individuals – for self use, for public consumption, for sale… whatever the case may be.
 
While this site focuses on “Yes And” and “Between My Lines”, I would hope this project can grow somewhere, one that showcases work for and/or by incarcerated transgender individuals.

part of my desire in creating this website also was to make the joie and sola’s art more accessible to those with disabilities also.

 

 

what i accomplished:

during that process, i actually came to question what exactly accessibility was, and found myself incorporating silence within that conversation, which was pretty cool for me to see those things combine on the page.

i actually wrote and rewrote those sections a few times. originally, it worked in a few of the texts from the semester, but i decided that would make the site and information verge on inaccessible and tedious — websites in my experience should be kept pretty short or people won’t care if they can even access it and keep their attention on it.

the related links was a culmination of a lot of the research that i did, and it was also pretty nice to see a good chunk of that work take a physical form.

 

what i learned:

i think i learned about the practice accessibility, actually. i mean, i learned that art by or of incarcerated transgender individuals is lacking, but i pretty much knew that. i often do little things to make my personal blog or some of my posts on serendip a bit more accessible, but making an entire website accessible kicked me in the ass. i personally don’t feel that i accomplished it because… well, can we make something fully accessible? (as i wrote about on the site… but i am still relatively pleased with what i got out of it.