STATION REPORT
Art + Medicine: Disability, Culture and Creativity
Premiere Date: October 29, 2023 Format: 1 x 60-minute documentary, 10 lifts for streaming
Description
The fourth episode in the Emmy Award-winning Art + Medicine miniseries Art + Medicine: Disability, Culture and Creativity showcases artists and healthcare clinicians creating alternative perspectives on disability, through, stories and performances, and redefining the perception of normality. Created in collaboration with the Center for the Art of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School, this hour-long program features ten disabled artists and clinicians and includes an additional 11 disabled artists and clinicians throughout. The program is hosted by artist and storyteller Kevin Kling, Professor Jessica Horvath Williams, PhD, and internal medicine physician Tseganesh Selameab. Art + Medicine: Disability, Culture and Creativity was broadcast locally on TPT 2 as well as on public television stations nationwide, with more than 625 airings on 110 channels in 58 markets. It was available for streaming in full and in ten separate segments, or “lifts,” on TPT.org and other public television station websites. In November 2024, the film was honored with an Upper Midwest Regional Emmy Award ® .
Impact
We hope that the program can help destigmatize disabilities in a new way for the general population while also celebrating disabilities communities. The goals of this program were to:
• Create community-informed programming by including a curatorial team in the planning and review processes. • Create community-reflected programming, ensuring disability, artistic, and racially diverse representation on-screen and off. • Create entertaining and educational content through an artistic lens to help destigmatize disability. • Give audiences tools to start conversations about disabilities.
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