Join me in a conversation with Seattle Artist, Grace Athena Flott about painting the disabled figure, having the guts to talk about hard topics, her studio practice, why she’s taken a month off of painting, and her new show at the Port of Seattle.

Find Grace: https://www.graceathenaflott.com/

New Icons exhibition catalog: https://www.graceathenaflott.com/availablepaintings/p/new-icons-exhibition-catalogue

Grace on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/graceathenaart/

Grace’s show at Port of Seattle, Dec. 1, 2023 through Feb. 29, 2024 : https://www.graceathenaflott.com/selected-work/new-icons-burn-survivor-portraits

Juliette Aristides Painting Atelier program: https://www.aristidesarts.com/terracotta-program

Stephanie’s coach for rest: https://www.lifecoachbaker.com/

Rest as Resistance: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60382737-rest-is-resistance

Grace’s in person workshop on January 13th, 2024: https://www.graceathenaflott.com/workshops-in-person

Sign up for Grace’s mailing list to get updates on her future podcast, shows, and opportunities to collect her art: https://www.graceathenaflott.com/mailing-list

“Statue of Liberation, Portrait of Tonya” 2023
30x40 inches
Grace Athena Flott

Grace Athena Flott’s Artist statement:

As a multidisciplinary artist and cis-woman with disfigurement, medical trauma and chronic pain, I am motivated to document and complicate what it means to “look different” in relationship to health, beauty, and gender. My practice is rooted in body liberation and premised on the feminist disability philosophy that notions of ourselves and formed with and against other bodies. Through portraiture and narrative painting, embodied printmaking, and facilitating community conversations on bodily autonomy, healing, and self-representation I aim to combat the erasure of visible difference in media and connect our struggle for recognition into broader sociopolitical discussions.

Through multiple 2D visual languages, my work opens questions of body hierarchy — whose body belongs, how do we measure, categorize and define a body, what makes a normal vs. normative body and who decides? My practice allows me to build trust in my own body as a primary source for understanding these cultural narratives in addition to educating the public and creating healing art spaces for my community.

Host and artist Stephanie Scott breaks down the practicality of the art career with topics including: sustainable creative practices, social media skills, and the mindsets that keep it all together. New episodes every Tuesday!

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Website: http://www.stephaniescott.art/brushwork

Music by @winepot https://www.instagram.com/thewinepot/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@stephaniescottart

Podcast Cover photo by Maryna Blumqvist https://instagram.com/picturemaryna

Facing The Full Human Condition with Grace Athena Flott