Call for Submissions for “Cripping Creativity & Play: Artist-Led Explorations of Disabled Art-Making”

Sep 15, 2025

Ground Works, a2ru’s peer-reviewed platform for arts-integrated research, announces a call for submissions to a special themed issue entitled Cripping Creativity & Play: Artist-Led Explorations of Disabled Art-Making. With this issue, edited by Dr. Elizabeth McLain (Virginia Tech), we seek to reimagine interdisciplinary arts-based research led by disabled artists.

We invite submissions that challenge traditional harmful approaches to scholarship about disabled art (such as inspiration porn, super crip narratives, or attempts to “fix” disabled people), piloting new approaches that honor the agency of disabled artists. In celebration of the interdependence of the disability community, we encourage collaborations that incorporate multimedia to explain, explore, and render accessible the creativity emerging from the disability community through an interdisciplinary, scholarly perspective.

DEADLINE EXTENDED All submissions must be received and flagged for consideration in this special issue by February 13, 2026. Contact a2ru-editorgw@umich.edu with any questions.