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Hendrick Goltzius was burned in a fire as a child, an accident that permanently damaged his right hand. Andy Warhol’s health was never the same after he was shot. Since 1975, Yayoi Kusama has lived primarily in a mental hospital. Throughout the history of art, there are countless examples of artists with disabilities. This session seeks to increase disability awareness in the arts by exploring the connection between creativity and disability. Issues that may be addressed include: the idea of art and disability as mutually beneficial, art as a way of coping with negative aspects of disability, art as a way of communicating about disability, and the stereotypes that exist between disabled artists and their art.