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[ID: a photo of a long hallway. Both walls are lined with my disabled beauty portraits]
Projects and Publications:
Featured in Whitman College’s “To Make Us Free: Witnessing Activism At Whitman & Beyond” Exhibition, September 2025 - March 2026
Art was used in Open Door Arts, Arts & Culture Accessibility Hub, July 2025
Did Illustrations for Justice Shorter at SeedGround’s project, A Roadmap: Making Transportation Evacuations Real For People With Disabilities, March-April 2025
Made the cover and centerfold for “From the QILT2BAG+” Issue 5, “Queer Crips” feature edited by Kaitlyn Hatch, April 2025
Participated in a research paper titled I tried everything. Nothing works: Challenges and Creative Processes from Digital Artists with Upper Limb Motor Impairments by Rodolfo Cossovich, Shanel Wu, and Audrey Girouard, October 27 2024
Created Tennessee’s Rev Up Vote Like Your Freedom Depends On It! Poster, November 2023
[ID: photo of me at the “Art of Disability Culture” exhibit in front of my self portrait and portrait of Stacey. I am in my wheelchair, a punk jacket, lacy dress, and I am masked]
Illustrated The Cover of Changelings An Autistic Trans Anthology Edited by Ryan Vale & Ocean Riley, November 2 2023
Artist Roundtable Panel Event: Hopeful Art and Artful Hope with The University of Wisconsin - Madison, April 14 2023
Self Portrait was Licensed to Creative Connector for their website March 2023
Disabled Beauty Portrait of Alice Wong Featured in Her and SFMOMA’s Disability Visibility Project and Raw Material Collab, March 4 2023
Created the Logo for EQL Threads Adaptive Clothing Company, December 28 2022
Featured in Wishbone Words Issue 7, Fighting the Stigma Against Chronic Illness, August 5 2022
Featured in the Exhibit “The Art of Disability Culture” at Ruth’s Table in San Fransisco, February 24 2022-May 20 2022
Completed 150 Stock Images for Adobe Stock’s Artist Development Fund, February 6 2022
Featured in the Exhibit “The Art of Disability Culture” at the Palo Alto Art Center Museum September 11-December 11 2021
[ID: I am outside filming my PBS special. I am sitting in my wheelchair and dressed in all black with black fishnets and a blue mask with mermaids on it. I am surrounded by cameras.]
First Began Publishing Portraits for Disabled Kids, July 2021
Created a Card for the Final Girl Support Group Promotional Trading Card deck by Grady Hendrix, July 13 2021
Featured on WEDU Arts Plus PBS Season 10 Episode 11, May 20 2021
Published in A-Okay!’s Zine 5 Stages of Grieving the Abled Body Or: How to Feel Better About Not Being “Better” Issue 1, April 2021
Published in Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal Volume 17 Issue 1, March 13 2021
Published in Inspirational Artist Series: Michaela Anne Oteri by Gaye Leigh Green about Michaela and Featuring Artwork by her, Decemeber 23 2020
Illustrated Images for All Bodies Deserve: Creating the Future of Us Coloring Book, September 14 2020
Winner of the CripCamp and Adobe's Fellowship, July 16 2020
Published in RHiME Medical Journal Pandemic Praxis Edition US and India Perspectives, May 21 2020
[ID: Me sitting in front of one of my self portraits which just won a Rare Artist Award in 2019. I am sitting in a power wheelchair and am wearing a long black skirt with little pear flowers on it. My crutches are decorated with zebra patterned tape and are visible behind me, matching my self portrait]