Name
IN GOOD HANDS—IN GOOD TIME: Collaborative Art, Crip Time, and Community-Building by Mail
Description

As a neurodivergent architect, artist, and community educator, I created IN GOOD HANDS—IN GOOD TIME as a personal experiment in building relationships at a slower, more intentional pace. This ongoing collaborative mail-based art project invites participants to foster interdependent community by contributing to evolving postcard collages passed from person to person through the mail. Rooted in disability justice and Crip Time, it embraces slowness, unpredictability, and creative trust, offering a direct challenge to dominant expectations of productivity, communication, and connection. It also draws on a long history of disabled and neurodivergent people building community through alternative formats like mail, zines, online forums, and asynchronous collaboration. In this hands-on session, participants will engage directly with the project by starting their own traveling postcard collage using provided materials. The creative activity will follow a brief conversation about Crip Time, interdependence, and alternative approaches to community-building. Each participant will leave with their postcard along with a printed description of the project and instructions on how to keep it moving. They will be encouraged to continue the chain by mailing their piece to someone they'd like to reconnect with or include in their broader community. By blending theory and practice, this session offers a tangible, low-pressure way to explore sustainable, neurodivergent approaches to creativity, connection, and care.

 

Date
Friday, May 9, 2025
Time
2:10 PM - 3:00 PM (EDT)