Printmakers for Disability Justice

Curated by Brett Taylor

Becci Spruill

About the Artist

Originally from North Carolina, Becci Spruill has degrees in Sociology and Fine Art and received her MFA in Printmaking at KSU. She is also the co-founder of the Radical Intersectional Printmakers’ Guild, an organization that aims to cultivate an equitable and inclusive group of printmakers. She is the former Vice President of the Mid-America Print Council, where she chaired the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility committee and worked to create accessibility recommendations for conference hosts and develop accessibility resources for panel chairs and demonstrators. She lives with ADHD and several mobility issues from repetitive stress injuries. She has also organized and juried multiple exhibitions and panels that work to expand opportunities for historically underfunded and underrepresented printmakers.

Artist:

Becci Spruill

Social media: @becciprints

Exhibition

Printmakers for Disability Justice

Artist Statement

Becci Spruill is an interdisciplinary printmaker whose work explores her experiences with the internalized limitations of colonial beauty standards and societal norms that make her feel unideal. Her work is produced through obsessive and redundant processes that mimic her anxious fixation on the perception of her being.

Her compositions frame short narratives of moments in which she feels unideal, often because of her queer identity, her mixed ethnicities, her disabilities or the size of her body. In these vignettes, she relies on humor as a method of critiquing and subverting expectations of femininity. Her monsters are too loud, too large, too direct and too unladylike – all things she was taught she shouldn’t be.