Disability Studies Lecture Series Speaker: Jess Starns (UK artist) - Fostering Neurodivergent Joy and Expression in the Arts

Jess Starns is an artist whose creative process is participatory, collaborative and inclusive with a focus on disability and neurodiversity. Jess completed her Inclusive Arts Practice MA at the University of Brighton where Jess and 8 other participants curated the Neurodiversity Museum. Jess is the founder of ‘Dyspraxic Me’, is experienced with supporting young people and works within museums. Jess was awarded a place on the Shaw Trust ‘Power 100’ 2018 list of the most influential and inspirational disabled people in Britain.

She will share about her important work, how she has fostered neurodivergent joy and expression in the arts, her multimedia participatory approaches and your relationship to AR and other technologies in this creative and critically important work she is  doing.