About

Christopher Robert Jones & Liza Sylvestre are artists and writers based in Illinois. They are Research Assistant Professors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where they co-founded Crip*—Cripistemology and the Arts, a transdisciplinary initiative housed within the College of Fine and Applied Arts. They are also co-founders of Cripping FAA a project designed to disseminate Crip* principals throughout the 11 units in the College of Fine and Applied Arts via co-teaching collaborations with professors in each of those units—to discover and design new, crip-centric approaches to teaching within our college’s disciplines. They have exhibited and performed at locations such as Weisman Art Museum, John Hansard Gallery, Gallery 400, Krannert Art Museum, the Whitney Museum, and the List Visual Arts Center at MIT. Their institutional work is supported by an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant, an Arts CO+RE grant from the Office of the Vice Chancellor of Research and Innovation, a Presidential Initiative: Expanding the Impact of the Arts and Humanities, and a Call To Action To Address Racism and Social Injustice Research Program funded by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.