Divided Portraits: Identity and Disability - Tapa dura

Hilary Cooper is a New York-based artist specializing in portraiture and landscape. She has been in numerous shows, including 1992's Paris Review and the 2004 HERE Arts Center. She has also been featured in numerous collections, editorials, and commissioned works, including commissions for Erica Jong, Kimberly Rockefeller, and Patricia Hearst Shaw, and editorials in the New Yorker. Jean Kennedy Smith, founder of VSA arts, was the U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, 1993¬-1998. She has received awards for her contributions to the issue of disabilities, including the Jefferson Award for Outstanding Public Service from the American Institutes for Public Service and the Margaret Mead Humanitarian Award from the Council of Cerebral Palsy Auxiliaries. She has four children. VSA ARTS (VERY SPECIAL ARTS) is an international nonprofit organization founded in 1974 to create a society where all people with disabilities learn through, participate in, and enjoy the arts. It provides educators, parents, and artists with the resources and tools to support arts programming in schools and communities, and promotes increased access to the arts for people with disabilities. Roxana Robinson has written numerous books, including a biography of Georgia O'Keefe and four were named Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times. Her writing has been featured in The Wall Street Journal and Vogue. She received the NEA and Guggenheim Foundation fellowships, and is a trustee emeritus of American PEN and the National Humanities Center.