3Arts/BOW Artist in Residence Ariella Granados

Meet Ariella Granados (she/they), one of the 3Arts/Bodies of Work Spring Artist in Residence.  Along with being a 3Arts/Bodies of Artist in Residence, Ariella is working with the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events(DCASE)and theMayor’s Office for People with  Disabilities (MOPD), where she has been experimenting with sound and music, and exploring the possibilities of performance and sculpture.

Ariella’s phenomenological approach to their art is motivated by the absence of representation of her intersecting identities growing up in a small town in Texas as first-generation, multicultural, and disabled. Her experience of “hiding her disability” when she was growing up led her to explore art as a means of reclaiming agency over her body.

As part of her residencies with DCASE, MOPD, and 3Arts/BOW, Ariella has been organizing workshops on DJing, comedy, and set design, while arranging meet-ups for disabled artists in Chicago. Her workshops on set design, makeup design, and comedy will culminate in

a closing event and showing off the final product at the Central West Center on July 7th. You can check out some of her events here.

To learn more about Ariella, you can find her on Instagram @sparklmami.

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Maddie Abelson (she/they) is a BA Theatre Design, Production, and Technology student at the  University of Illinois at Chicago, where they are focusing on properties and accessible design.