- Sunny Taylor
Sunny Taylor (born
March 21 ,1982 inTucson, Arizona ) is a painter and disability rights activist.Biography
Despite her youth, she has been nominated for numerous prizes including the
Joan Mitchell Foundation Award in2003 , and was the recipient of the Grand Prize in the 2004VSA arts Driving Force juried exhibition for emerging disabled artists [ [http://www.vsarts.org/prebuilt/showcase/gallery/exhibits/vw/2004/index.html VSA Arts 2004 exhibition homepage] , accessed on2007-08-16 ] [ [http://www.vsarts.org/prebuilt/showcase/gallery/exhibits/vw/2004/s_taylor.html VSA Arts website for the 2004 winner] , accessed on2007-08-16 ] . As part of this exhibition her portrait of musicianVic Chesnutt was displayed at theSmithsonian in Washington, DC and at galleries across the United States [ [http://www.vsarts.org/x951.xml VSA Arts schedule for "Driving Force"] ] .She was born with
arthrogryposis and uses a wheelchair. She has been active in the [http://www.uic.edu/orgs/sds/ Society for Disability Studies] and has also engaged in disability rights marches. Her work on the disability rights movement has appeared inMonthly Review [ [http://www.monthlyreview.org/0304taylor.htm Monthly Review article] , March 2004, accessed on2007-08-16 ] , and her "Self Portrait with TCE" was the first full-color image ever printed in the publication's long history. She has been featured onAll Things Considered onNational Public Radio [ [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4520398 NPR program page] ] , and theGeorgia Public Television series "State of the Arts ".Her work has also been featured frequently in
Flagpole Magazine in her home town,Athens, Georgia .Taylor now lives and studies in
Berkeley, California .References
External links
* [http://www.sunnytaylor.org Official website]
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