Opulent Mobility Art Exhibition 

Hoyt Gallery Hours:
Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

ADMISSION:
Admission is free and open to everyone. No reservations required. 

DESCRIPTION:
What would it mean to center disability in arts practice and aesthetics? Opulent Mobility, founded and curated by A. Laura Brody and Anthony Tusler, responds to this question through a series of vibrant group shows featuring artists and works that actively reframe and recalibrate conventional approaches to disability and chronic illness. Now in its ninth year and showing for the first time at USC, Opulent Mobility includes a rich collection of pieces from a wide range of artists working across photography, painting, sculpture, mixed media, and video. Their practice and works offer new models of beauty, interdependence, and care.  

“There is so much that able-bodied people could learn from the wisdom that often comes with disability. But space needs to be made.”–A.H. Reaume, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century by Alice Wong. 

Related events: 

Reimagining Disability Narratives through Artistic Practice
A Lecture by A. Laura Brody
Tuesday, September 24, 2024, at 12:30 p.m.
Taper Hall 301, University Park Campus
For more info, click HERE. 

Opulent Mobility: Opening Panel & Reception
Wednesday, September 25, 2024, at 12 p.m.
Mayer Auditorium, Health Sciences Campus
For more info, click HERE. 

Gender, Queerness, Disability, and the Arts
A Conversation with A. Laura Brody and Brontë Grimm
Tuesday, October 1, 2024, at 11 a.m.
Taper Hall 309K, University Park Campus
For more info, click HERE. 

Presented by USC Visions and Voices. Organized by Pamela Schaff (Medical Education, Family Medicine, and Pediatrics), Julie Van Dam (French and Italian), Erika Wright (Medical Education and English), Sabrina Derrington (Pediatrics), and Ron Ben-Ari (Internal Medicine and Medical Education). Co-sponsored by the Keck School of Medicine’s HEAL (Humanities, Ethics, Art, and Law) Program and the Center for Bioethics at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.