Welcome to the first episode of the Access Ideas and Insights Podcast Series!

This episode delves into accessible curation, exploring how innovative practices are redefining artistic excellence through accessibility, diversity, and inclusion.

Hear from multidisciplinary artist Bailee Lobb (Aotearoa) and curator, writer and art historian Amanda Cachia (U.S.) as they share their different perspectives on access in the arts. Discover how artists and curators are embedding creative access into exhibitions and festivals and how these approaches are cultivating new, diverse audiences.

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Episode 1: Accessible Curation

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Check out the Episode 1 Transcript and the Image Description document which describes the artworks and images in the Auslan interpreted podcast video.

Podcast Guest Speakers

Bailee Lobb

Bailee Lobb is a queer, disabled multi-disciplinary artist who works with textiles, colour, and movement to create sculpture, installation, and performance artworks that explore art as disability access and care.

Bailee enjoys creating immersive and playful work that encourages discourse on what it means to provide care, for yourself or others. Recent creative access artworks have explored rest, stimming and energetic movement, sleep, and how ritual can be incorporated into self-care. Bailee encourages her audiences to physically engage with her experiential works, creating spaces to inhabit and sculptures to squeeze.

Bailee lives and works in Te Whanganui-A-Tara, Aotearoa (Wellington, New Zealand), where she practices from her home studio.

Amanda Cachia

Amanda Cachia has an established career profile as a curator, consultant, writer and art historian who specializes in disability art activism across intersectional axes of difference, including gender, race, and sexuality. She is the Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the Arts Leadership Graduate Program at the Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts at the University of Houston, where she also serves as Coordinator of the Graduate Certificate in Museum and Gallery Management, and the Graduate Certificate in Arts and Health.

Cachia is the author of Hospital Aesthetics: Disability, Medicine, Activism (forthcoming, 2025), and The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique (2024). She is also editor of Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation (2022), which includes over 40 international contributors. She is currently working on her third book, Rehabilitating the Asylum: Mental Health Justice and Contemporary Art, which is under advance contract with Manchester University Press. Her writing has been translated into Spanish, German, and Italian. Cachia has a PhD in Art History, Theory & Criticism from the University of California San Diego.

Cachia has curated approximately 50 exhibitions, many of which have traveled to cities across the USA, England, Australia and Canada. Cachia previously taught art history, visual culture, and curatorial and exhibition studies at Otis College of Art and Design, California Institute of the Arts, California State University Long Beach, California State University San Marcos and San Diego State University.

Podcast Host

Bedelia Lowrenčev

Bedelia (they/she) is a groovy disabled actor, dancer, singer, agitator, theatre maker, producer and Access Coordinator, living and working on Wategoro and Wangal Land. Bedelia frequently collaborates with their Deaf twin Jeremy, as facilitators and explorers of queerness, disability and deafness. Bedelia has a keen interest in communal care, story sovereignty, reciprocity and advocacy in their arts practice. In particular, challenging the western gaze on body, community and identity, and the reclamation of CALD queerness, and relation to land. Most recently, Bedelia acted in the new short film ‘With Love, Lottie’ which screened at FrameShift at the Sydney Opera House, and will screen at the 2025 Mardi Gras Film Festival. Previously, Bedelia acted with Bus Stop Films in ‘Screen Me’, Assistant Produced Raghav Handa’s THE ASSEMBLY at Campbelltown Arts Centre, performed SOFT PLACES at the Sydney Biennale, Griffin Studio Resident, and was Access Coordinator at Performance Space for Liveworks, and Co-Program Coordinator: Access at Sydney Fringe Festival. Currently, Bedelia is cracking into their disabled musical spenanza with Wear It Purple, is lead creative in the Move Series at the Art Gallery of NSW, and worked on the Ripple program with Accessible Arts as program coordinator for 2025.

This podcast is proudly produced by Accessible Arts, Arts Development Manager Amy Mills and Kiera Brew Kurec with sound design by Tralala Blip. Access consulting was provided by Macro Impact Consulting and our Advisory Group.

This podcast series is proudly supported by the City of Sydney and Create NSW, the principal funding partner of Accessible Arts.

Image description: Headshots of the podcast guest speakers and host, from left to right: Bailee Lobb (photo by Sarah Jamieson), Amanda Cachia, and Bedelia Lowrenčev (photo by Mansoor Noor).