Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities Archives

An image of a tangled mess of painted ropes around a rock

Now Accepting Applications: 2024 Midwest Award For Artists With Disabilities

May 6 2024

A $3,000 award supporting accessibility in the arts and celebrating the work of disabled Midwestern visual artists.

A painting of a pile of colorful yarn-like material, woven in and around a colorful rock-like object.

Madison Rubenstein

Madison Rubenstein is one of nine inaugural winners of the Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities. This award, designed to support accessibility in the arts and celebrate the exceptional work of...

An abstract painting with orange, yellow, and blue colors. Thin lines and blobs of bright color overlap.

Mary Payton Zajicek

Mary Payton Zajicek is one of nine inaugural winners of the Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities. This award, designed to support accessibility in the arts and celebrate the exceptional work...

A painting of Jesus and and a painting of a figure holding up their hand, surrounded by smoke and child-like scribbles. The words Like one about wayss are visible in the bottom lower corner.

Matthew Bodett

Matthew Bodett is one of nine inaugural winners of the Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities. This award, designed to support accessibility in the arts and celebrate the exceptional work of...

Five paintings of smiling women hang on easels in a large room. Each woman has white roses in front of them.

Bonnie Lee

Bonnie Lee is one of nine inaugural winners of the Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities. This award, designed to support accessibility in the arts and celebrate the exceptional work of...

A sculpture of a person sitting on top of a bed surrounded by rose petals. They are divided into two pieces and missing a head, a stomach, and an arm. Their legs have braces.

Larissa Danielle

Larissa Danielle is one of nine inaugural winners of the Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities. This award, designed to support accessibility in the arts and celebrate the exceptional work of...

$A mural painted on the side of a building. Pastel colors and bold lines show stars, meteors, angels, sea life, and other abstract forms.$

Lauren Bonney

Lauren Bonney is one of nine inaugural winners of the Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities. This award, designed to support accessibility in the arts and celebrate the exceptional work of...

An abstract painting of a person laying sideways, their hands above their head on a collaged background of other bodies and forms.

Maggie Laycock

Maggie Laycock is one of nine inaugural winners of the Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities. This award, designed to support accessibility in the arts and celebrate the exceptional work of...

A page of a Zine with a drawing of a deer and a picture of a dog. The title reads Freedom and Possession.

Sarah Muehlbauer

Sarah Muehlbauer is one of nine inaugural winners of the Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities. This award, designed to support accessibility in the arts and celebrate the exceptional work of...

A series of photos showing the progression of creating a pair of shoes from salvaged canvas.

Andrea Sosa Fontaine

Andrea Sosa Fontaine is one of nine inaugural winners of the Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities. This award, designed to support accessibility in the arts and celebrate the exceptional work...

Program/Grant: Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities