Sara Hendren Artist Talk

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Visiting artist lectures are held at SFPC, 155 Rivington Street. While these lectures and events are for SFPC students, we have space to accommodate a few guests. We ask for small donation to help with running the lecture series. Contact casey@sfpc.io for details.  We are excited to announce Sara Hendren will be visiting us in October. Sara runs Abler which is one of inspirational resource behind our new research tracks “Assistive technology" and "New audiences."  Sara Hendren is an artist, design researcher, and writer in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She makes material and digital artworks, writes, and lectures on adaptive and assistive technologies, prosthetics, inclusive design, accessible architecture, and related ideas. Her work has been exhibited in the US and abroad and is held in the permanent collection at MOMA (NYC), and her writing and design work have appeared in the Boston Globe, The Atlantic Tech, FastCo Design, and on National Public Radio (US), among others. She teaches socially-engaged design practices, adaptive + assistive technologies, and disability studies for engineers-in-training at Olin College. She writes and edits Abler, a syndicated column sometimes also on Gizmodo.