Visual Voices is an online lecture series hosted by Mason Exhibitions and the School of Art and Design. This event will take place via zoom on Thursday, September 21 @ 4:45pm-6:30pm. RSVP is required to receive the zoom link.

Jen White-Johnson is an Afro-Latina disabled and neurodivergent art activist, designer and educator whose visual work explores the intersection of content and caregiving with an emphasis on redesigning ableist visual culture. As an artist-educator with Graves disease and ADHD, her heart-centered and electric approach to disability advocacy bolsters these movements with invaluable currencies: powerful, dynamic art and media that all at once educates, bridges divergent worlds, and builds a future that mirrors her Autistic son’s experience. 

Jen has presented her activist work and collaborated with a number of brands and art spaces across print and digital such as Twitter, Target, Converse, and Apple. Her photography and design have been featured in The Washington Post, AfroPunk, The Black Experience in Design, Identity Expression and Reflection, and most recently, After Universal Design: The Disability Design Revolution, and is permanently archived at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National African American Museum of History and Culture in DC. In 2020 she was an honoree on the Diversability’s D-30 Disability Impact List and In 2021 she was listed as 20 Latino Artists to watch on Today.com Jen has an MFA in Graphic Design from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She currently lives in Baltimore with her husband and 10-year-old son.

For questions about the event, please contact Jeff Kenney at jkenney5@gmu.edu