About Us

I Wanna Be With You Everywhere (IWBWYE) is a group of disabled artists, writers, and organizers collectively producing cross-disability arts programming, community gatherings, and open-access archives for and by disabled artists and our audiences. Since 2019 our projects have centered disability arts and aesthetics at every level of production—from conception to reception—while building the necessary accessibility and infrastructure for cross-disability community and everyone who wants to get with us to flourish remotely and in person across New York and beyond. As a collective, we seek to create spaces of joy, togetherness, and artistic and creative experimentation. We organize gatherings that integrate access as a mode of making and an aesthetic consideration, rejecting notions of accessibility as a secondary consideration or an accommodation made for those who request it.

We Are IWBWYE

  • Amalle Dublon

    Steering Group Member

    Amalle Dublon’s work deals with sound, sexual difference, reproductivity, and time. Amalle has taught courses on sound, media, film, art, race, and gender, at the New School, NYU, Temple University, and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.

  • Jerron Herman

    Steering Group Member

    Jerron Herman is an American choreographer, dancer, performance artist, writer and a teacher for the Dream Project at National Dance Institute for children with disabilities. He grew up in California as part of a religious and art loving family.

  • Carolyn Lazard

    Steering Group Member

    Carolyn Lazard is an interdisciplinary artist working in video, sculpture, text, and performance to engage the aesthetic and political dimensions of consent, care, and dependency. Working from the material conditions of chronic illness, their work animates the productive incapacity of crip life.

  • Park McArthur

    Steering Group Member

    Park McArthur is a conceptual artist living in New York City who works in sculpture, installation, text, and sound. McArthur is a wheelchair user whose work uses this position to inform her art.

  • Alice Sheppard

    Steering Group Member

    Alice Sheppard is a choreographer and dancer. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of Kinetic Light. Sheppard studied ballet and modern dance with Kitty Lunn and made her debut with Infinity Dance Theater.

  • Constantina Zavitsanos

    Steering Group Member

    Constantina Zavitsanos works in sculpture, performance, text, and sound. Zavitsanos's work deals in the material re/production of debt, dependency, and means beyond measure.

  • Michelle Lisa Polissaint

    Arts Administrator

    Michelle Lisa Polissaint is a Haitian-American visual artist, arts organizer, and consultant based below the Mason-Dixon. She is a currently MFA candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

  • Madison Zalopany

    Access Coordinator

    Madison Zalopany is an access worker, artist, and cultural critic. In these roles, they foster cross-disability solidarity, support access logistics, and operate from an anti-ableist framework.

Past Collaborators

IWBWYE has worked with previously the following artists, access workers, and hosts:

Amelia Bande, Johanna Hedva, Eli Clare, John Lee Clark, Jerron Herman, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Camisha L. Jones, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Jordan Lord, NEVE, Alice Sheppard, JJJJJerome Ellis, People Who Stutter Create (Jia Bin, Delicia Daniels, JJJJJerome Ellis, Conor Foran, Kristel Kubart), Kayla Hamilton, Crip Movement Lab (Kayla Hamilton with Elisabeth Motley), Panteha Abareshi, Yo-Yo Lin, Oliver Stabbe, Alexandra Wailes, Dickie Hearts, Anjel Piñero, Alexis Fagen, Alex Dolores Salerno, Akemi Nishida, Amber Hawk Swanson, Taraneh Fazeli, Risa Puleo, Tim Smith, Alejandra Ospina, Michelle Mantione, Azure D. Osborne-Lee, Stephanie Feyne, Jose Gomez, Carmen King, Gabriel Silva, Aisha Simpson, Kat Katona, Rachel Hickman, Morgaine de Leonadis, Justine Rivera, Kat Kundina, Jessica Ames, Jon Wolfe, Candace Davider