Projects.
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Practice.
Consulting
If you are an artist, organizer, or gatekeeper, odds are you have a lot on your plate. Our consulting practice helps intervene in everyday oppression by modeling access in real time, discussing obstacles to action, and devising ways forward. Meeting duration, frequency, and topics are negotiable. $400 per hour, sliding scale available.
Workshop Design and Facilitation
We design and facilitate workshops that help model access within the most basic decisions made in the workshop’s design. An example is our recent Disabled Leadership and Power workshop offered through Disability Art and Culture Project. Workshops typically run between $4,000-$6,000 depending on intended outcomes.
Interactive Artworks
We create interactive transmedia art works that continue our practice of modelling access. Our recent 360-video powered live performance The Swoop featured open audio description in the video, and included realtime negotiation with audience members. Price variable.
Projects.
Access And Artistic Research – A Dialogue with Lucy Cotter and The Curiosity Paradox (2024)
[A sharp graphic of the book cover for the expanded second edition of Reclaiming Artistic Research by Lucy Cotter. Bold black minimalist text with a white dust jacket.]
In this dialogue on Access and Artistic Research, Lucy Cotter and The Curiosity Paradox draw on each of their practices, taking as their departure point organic overlaps in their thinking, emerging questions, and a shared wish to co-imagine with a wider community. Hosted by Stelo Arts.
Justice Producer's Collaborative (2020Â to present)
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The Justice Producers Collaborative (JPC) is evolving into a curated monthly growing space for seasoned cultural producers with lived experience of marginalization. Led by Calling Up Justice (Claudia Alick) and The Curiosity Paradox (Grant Miller & Jonathan Paradox), this intimate seed bank is where established justice workers share strategies, strengthen practices, and cultivate sustainable approaches to culture change.
Dis/Rep Workshop (2020Â to present)
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Dis/Rep (Disability/Representation) is an online learning platform for the yearly virtual series focused on Disability, accessibility, and culture. It is currently co-produced by The Curiosity Paradox, Calling Up Justice, and Catalyst Consulting Associates LLC. Live sessions were funded by The City of Portland's Office of Community and Civic Life.
Desire Path Project (2022 to present)
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Desire Path is an ongoing research project into Access Art by The Curiosity Paradox that launched on February 18th, 2022. Funded by individual donors, the Disability Leadership Sponsorship and Grant program through to City of Portland, and the Emily Georges Gottfried Fund of the OJCF.
[Banner says “Projects” on top of a photo with a curled hand that holds soil and a calendula flower.]
Projects.
We hold a variety of projects, programs, and ongoing collaborations. Below are a selection of these projects.
Access And Artistic Research – A Dialogue with Lucy Cotter and The Curiosity Paradox (2024)
[A sharp graphic of the book cover for the expanded second edition of Reclaiming Artistic Research by Lucy Cotter. Bold black minimalist text with a white dust jacket.]
In this dialogue on Access and Artistic Research, Lucy Cotter and The Curiosity Paradox draw on each of their practices, taking as their departure point organic overlaps in their thinking, emerging questions, and a shared wish to co-imagine with a wider community. Hosted by Stelo Arts.
Justice Producer's Collaborative (2020Â to present)
[Graphic of a community of trees and shrubs in profile with interlocking roots.]
The Justice Producers Collaborative (JPC) is evolving into a curated monthly growing space for seasoned cultural producers with lived experience of marginalization. Led by Calling Up Justice (Claudia Alick) and The Curiosity Paradox (Grant Miller & Jonathan Paradox), this intimate seed bank is where established justice workers share strategies, strengthen practices, and cultivate sustainable approaches to culture change.
Dis/Rep Workshop (2020Â to present)
[Surreal digital image of a giant spoon and silver balloons that read “Dis/Rep” in a strange field with a few flowers. Planets above.]
Dis/Rep (Disability/Representation) is an online learning platform for the yearly virtual series focused on Disability, accessibility, and culture. It is currently co-produced by The Curiosity Paradox, Calling Up Justice, and Catalyst Consulting Associates LLC. Live sessions were funded by The City of Portland's Office of Community and Civic Life.
Desire Path Project (2022 to present)
[Lichen floats in the sky, “Desire Path Project”]
Desire Path is an ongoing research project into Access Art by The Curiosity Paradox that launched on February 18th, 2022. Funded by individual donors, the Disability Leadership Sponsorship and Grant program through to City of Portland, and the Emily Georges Gottfried Fund of the OJCF.