{"id":6649,"date":"2017-09-14T20:08:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T00:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=6649"},"modified":"2017-09-19T11:19:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T15:19:58","slug":"riva-lehrer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/riva-lehrer\/","title":{"rendered":"Riva Lehrer"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9650\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6649-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/rivalehrer.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/rivalehrer.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/rivalehrer.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_6666\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6666\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rivalehrerart.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6666 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Riva-Lehrer-by-Dawoud-Bey.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Riva-Lehrer-by-Dawoud-Bey.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Riva-Lehrer-by-Dawoud-Bey.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Riva-Lehrer-by-Dawoud-Bey.jpg?resize=80%2C60&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Riva-Lehrer-by-Dawoud-Bey.jpg?resize=265%2C198&amp;ssl=1 265w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Riva-Lehrer-by-Dawoud-Bey.jpg?resize=696%2C522&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Riva-Lehrer-by-Dawoud-Bey.jpg?resize=560%2C420&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Riva-Lehrer-by-Dawoud-Bey.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riva Lehrer, photo by Dawoud Bey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rivalehrerart.com\/\">Riva Lehrer<\/a> is an artist, writer and curator whose work focuses on issues of physical identity and the socially challenged body. She is best known for representations of people with impairments, and those whose sexuality or gender identity have long been stigmatized.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Lehrer\u2019s work has been seen in venues including the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian, the United Nations, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, the Arnot Museum, the DeCordova Museum, the Frye Museum, the Chicago Cultural Center, and the State of Illinois Museum.<\/p>\n<p>Awards include the 2017 3Arts MacDowell Fellowship for writing, 2015 3Arts Residency Fellowship at the University of Illinois; the 2014 Carnegie Mellon Fellowship at Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges; the 2009 Prairie Fellowship at the Ragdale Foundation. Grants include the 2009 Critical Fierceness Grant, the 2008 3Arts Foundation Grant, and the 2006 Wynn Newhouse Award for Excellence, (NYC), as well as grants from the Illinois Arts Council, the University of Illinois, and the National Endowment for the Arts.<\/p>\n<p>Her memoir in progress, entitled \u201cGolem Girl Gets Lucky,\u201d was recently signed to the Regal Hoffman &amp; Associates \/ New York literary agency.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Lehrer is on faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and instructor in the Medical Humanities Departments of Northwestern University and University of Illinois at Chicago.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6678\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6678\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6678\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CARRIE-SANDAHL.jpg?resize=628%2C1251&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"1251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CARRIE-SANDAHL.jpg?resize=514%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 514w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CARRIE-SANDAHL.jpg?resize=151%2C300&amp;ssl=1 151w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CARRIE-SANDAHL.jpg?resize=768%2C1530&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CARRIE-SANDAHL.jpg?resize=696%2C1386&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CARRIE-SANDAHL.jpg?resize=1068%2C2127&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CARRIE-SANDAHL.jpg?resize=211%2C420&amp;ssl=1 211w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CARRIE-SANDAHL.jpg?w=1939&amp;ssl=1 1939w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CARRIE-SANDAHL.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carrie Sandahl 2017 48 x 24&#8243; acrylic on panel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6667\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6667\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6667 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DAVID-MITCHELL-Risk-Picture.jpg?resize=640%2C476&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DAVID-MITCHELL-Risk-Picture.jpg?resize=1024%2C762&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DAVID-MITCHELL-Risk-Picture.jpg?resize=300%2C223&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DAVID-MITCHELL-Risk-Picture.jpg?resize=768%2C572&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DAVID-MITCHELL-Risk-Picture.jpg?resize=80%2C60&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DAVID-MITCHELL-Risk-Picture.jpg?resize=265%2C198&amp;ssl=1 265w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DAVID-MITCHELL-Risk-Picture.jpg?resize=696%2C518&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DAVID-MITCHELL-Risk-Picture.jpg?resize=1068%2C795&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DAVID-MITCHELL-Risk-Picture.jpg?resize=564%2C420&amp;ssl=1 564w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DAVID-MITCHELL-Risk-Picture.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DAVID-MITCHELL-Risk-Picture.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Risk Picture: David Mitchell, by Riva Lehrer and David Mitchell. 2017. Mixed media on paper, 24 x 36&#8243;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6668\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6668\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6668 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/HILLARY-CHUTE.jpg?resize=640%2C856&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/HILLARY-CHUTE.jpg?resize=766%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 766w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/HILLARY-CHUTE.jpg?resize=224%2C300&amp;ssl=1 224w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/HILLARY-CHUTE.jpg?resize=768%2C1027&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/HILLARY-CHUTE.jpg?resize=696%2C930&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/HILLARY-CHUTE.jpg?resize=1068%2C1428&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/HILLARY-CHUTE.jpg?resize=314%2C420&amp;ssl=1 314w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/HILLARY-CHUTE.jpg?w=1197&amp;ssl=1 1197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Risk Picture: Hillary Chute, by Riva Lehrer and Hillary Chute. 2015 Mixed media on paper and mix med on carved Plexiglass 44 x 30 x 3&#8243;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/rivalehrer.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listRiva Lehrer is an artist, writer and curator whose work focuses on issues of physical identity and the socially challenged body. 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