Simi Linton Explained

Simi Linton
Birth Date:	29 July 1947
Birth Place:	New York City, New York, United States
Alma Mater:	New York University Columbia University
Known For:	Disability Studies Invitation to Dance

Simi Linton is an American arts consultant, author, filmmaker, and activist. Her work focuses on Disability Arts, disability studies, and ways that disability rights and disability justice perspectives can be brought to bear on the arts.^[1]

Career

Linton was on the faculty at Hunter College of the City University of New York from 1985 to 1998, was co-director of the University Seminar in Disability Studies at Columbia University from 2003 to 2007, and was the Hofstra University Presidential Visiting Scholar in 2006.^[2] She received the Barnard College Medal of Distinction in 2015,^{[3] [4]} and an honorary Doctor of Arts from Middlebury College in 2016.^[5]

In 1998, she founded Disability/Arts Consultancy.^[6] Since then, Linton has worked with organizations such as United States Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art,^[7] Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts,^[8] Gibney Dance,^[9] The Public Theatre, Dance/NYC,^{[10] [11]} the Margaret Mead Film Festival, and other cultural, activist and academic institutions.

In 2014, Linton and Christian von Tippelskirch produced and directed the documentary film Invitation to Dance.^[12] The film was based, in part, on Linton's memoir My Body Politic and her long history of activism. The film premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in 2014,^[13] where it was nominated for a Social Justice Award by the Fund for Santa Barbara.

Linton was appointed to the New York City Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission (2015)^[14] and the She Built NYC Committee (2018)^[15] by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Publications

• Linton, Simi (2006). My Body Politic, University of Michigan Press
• Linton, Simi (1988). Claiming Disability, New York University Press

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Disability/Arts/NYC Recommendations for CreateNYC. 2017-07-06. createnyc.cityofnewyork.us. Create NYC - City Of New York. 2022-08-17.
2. Web site: The Year in Review 2006. 2006-09-14. news.hofstra.edu. News Hofstra University, New York. en-US. 2019-12-20.
3. Web site: Citation for Simi Linton. barnard.edu. Barnard College Columbia University. 2019-12-20.
4. Web site: Simi Linton Awarded Medal of Distinction from Barnard. Boatman. Mark. 2015-06-04. newmobility.com. New Mobility. en-US. 2019-12-20.
5. Web site: Middlebury Celebrates Commencement 2016. 2016-05-29. middlebury.edu. Middlebury. en. 2019-12-20.
6. Web site: Disability/Arts Founder Simi Linton to Deliver 2016 Rudin Lecture . 2022-03-01 . mmm.edu . Marymount Manhattan . en.
7. Web site: An Etiology of Omission: Disability In and Out of Protest Art. whitney.org. Whitney Museum. en. 2019-12-20.
8. Web site: Executive Staff. inclusioninthearts.org. Inclusion in the Arts. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20191221231335/http://inclusioninthearts.org/about/staff/. December 21, 2019.
9. Web site: DANT: The Disability/Arts/NYC Task Force — Gibney. gibneydance.org. Gibney Dance. 2019-12-21. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20191221231332/https://gibneydance.org/disability-arts-nyc-task-force/. December 21, 2019.
10. Web site: Disability. Dance. Artistry.. dance.nyc. Dance NYC Programs. en. 2019-12-21.
11. Web site: Disability Arts NYC Convening. dance.nyc. Dance NYC News. en. 2019-12-21.
12. Web site: Manning . Shaun . 2013-04-10 . Simi Linton announces 'Invitation to Dance' documentary . 2022-03-01 . blog.press.umich.edu. University of Michigan Press Blog . en-US.
13. Web site: Invitation to Dance. D. J.. Palladino. 2014-01-29. independent.com. Santa Barbara Independent. en-US. 2019-12-21.
14. Web site: Mayor Bill de Blasio Appoints New Members to the Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission. 2015-10-27. City of New York. 2019-12-21.
15. Web site: De Blasio Administration Announces Panel To Commission Artwork Honoring Women And Women's History. 2018-06-20. City of New York. 2019-12-21.