{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Simi Linton | birth_date = {{birth date |1947|07|29}} | birth_place = New York City, New York, United States | death_date = | death_place = | employer = | alma_mater = New York University<br /> Columbia University | known_for = Disability Studies<br>Invitation to Dance | awards = | footnotes = | website = {{URL|similinton.com}} }} '''Simi Linton''' is an American arts consultant, author, filmmaker, and activist. Her work focuses on Disability Arts, disability studies, and ways that disability rights and disability justice perspectives can be brought to bear on the arts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://createnyc.cityofnewyork.us/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CreateNYC_Appendix-Sect5_Disability_Arts_NYC-Task-Force.pdf|title=Disability/Arts/NYC Recommendations for CreateNYC|last=|first=|date=2017-07-06 |website=createnyc.cityofnewyork.us |publisher=Create NYC - City Of New York |archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2022-08-17}}</ref>
==Career== Linton was on the faculty at Hunter College of the City University of New York from 1985 to 1998, was co-director of the University Seminar in Disability Studies at Columbia University from 2003 to 2007, and was the Hofstra University Presidential Visiting Scholar in 2006.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://news.hofstra.edu/2006/09/14/the-year-in-review-2006/ |title=The Year in Review 2006 |date=2006-09-14 |website=news.hofstra.edu |publisher=News Hofstra University, New York |language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-20}}</ref> She was a visiting scholar at the NYU Center for Disability Studies and Department of Media, Culture, and Communication from 2021-2024, where she directed the Ford- and Mellon-funded project Proclaiming Disability Arts.<ref>{{cite web |title=Proclaiming Disability Arts |url=https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/proclaiming-disability-arts/ |website=New York University Center for Disability Studies |access-date=10 March 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=With Ford Foundation Grant, Working to Reshape Disability in the Cultural Imagination |url=https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/ford-foundation-grant-working-reshape-disability-cultural-imagination |website=Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |access-date=10 March 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Proclaiming Disability Arts |url=https://www.mellon.org/grant-details/proclaiming-disability-arts-20450895 |website=Mellon Foundation |access-date=10 March 2025}}</ref> She received the Barnard College Medal of Distinction in 2015,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://barnard.edu/student-services/commencement/commencement-archives/commencement-2015/citation-simi-linton |title=Citation for Simi Linton |website=barnard.edu |publisher=Barnard College Columbia University |access-date=2019-12-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.newmobility.com/2015/06/simi-linton-awarded-medal-of-distinction-from-barnard/ |title=Simi Linton Awarded Medal of Distinction from Barnard |last=Boatman|first=Mark|date=2015-06-04 |website=newmobility.com |publisher=New Mobility |language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-20}}</ref> and an honorary Doctor of Arts from Middlebury College in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.middlebury.edu/newsroom/archive/2016-news/node/536502 |title=Middlebury Celebrates Commencement 2016 |date=2016-05-29 |website=middlebury.edu |publisher=Middlebury |language=en|access-date=2019-12-20}}</ref>
In 1998, she founded Disability/Arts Consultancy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Disability/Arts Founder Simi Linton to Deliver 2016 Rudin Lecture |url=https://www.mmm.edu/live/news/2177-disabilityarts-founder-simi-linton-to-deliver-2016 |access-date=2022-03-01 |website=mmm.edu |publisher=Marymount Manhattan |language=en}}</ref> Since then, Linton has worked with organizations such as United States Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://whitney.org/Events/DisabilityProtestArt |title=An Etiology of Omission: Disability In and Out of Protest Art |website=whitney.org |publisher=Whitney Museum |language=en|access-date=2019-12-20}}</ref> Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts{{Broken anchor|date=2024-09-05|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|target_link=Theatre and disability#Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts|reason= The anchor (Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts) has been deleted.}},<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://inclusioninthearts.org/about/staff/ |title=Executive Staff |website=inclusioninthearts.org |publisher=Inclusion in the Arts |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191221231335/http://inclusioninthearts.org/about/staff/|archive-date=December 21, 2019|access-date=}}</ref> Gibney Dance,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gibneydance.org/disability-arts-nyc-task-force/|title=DANT: The Disability/Arts/NYC Task Force — Gibney |website=gibneydance.org |publisher=Gibney Dance |access-date=2019-12-21|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191221231332/https://gibneydance.org/disability-arts-nyc-task-force/|archive-date=December 21, 2019}}</ref> The Public Theatre, Dance/NYC,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.dance.nyc/programs/research/2016/02/Disability.-Dance.-Artistry |title=Disability. Dance. Artistry. |website=dance.nyc |publisher=Dance NYC Programs |language=en|access-date=2019-12-21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.dance.nyc/news/2017/01/Disability-Arts-NYC-Convening |title=Disability Arts NYC Convening |website=dance.nyc |publisher=Dance NYC News |language=en|access-date=2019-12-21}}</ref> the Margaret Mead Film Festival, and other cultural, activist and academic institutions.
In 2014, Linton and Christian von Tippelskirch produced and directed the documentary film ''Invitation to Dance''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Manning |first=Shaun |date=2013-04-10 |title=Simi Linton announces 'Invitation to Dance' documentary |url=https://press.umich.edu/Blog/2013/04/Simi-Linton-announces-Invitation-to-Dance-documentary |access-date=2022-03-01 |website=blog.press.umich.edu |publisher=University of Michigan Press Blog |language=en-US}}</ref> The film was based, in part, on Linton's memoir ''My Body Politic'' and her long history of activism. The film premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in 2014,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.com/2014/01/29/invitation-dance/|title=Invitation to Dance|first1=D. J.|last1=Palladino|date=2014-01-29 |website=independent.com |publisher=Santa Barbara Independent |language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-21}}</ref> where it was nominated for a Social Justice Award by the Fund for Santa Barbara.
Linton was appointed to the New York City Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission (2015)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/763-15/mayor-bill-de-blasio-appoints-new-members-the-cultural-affairs-advisory-commission |title=Mayor Bill de Blasio Appoints New Members to the Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission|date= 2015-10-27 |website=City of New York |access-date=2019-12-21}}</ref> and the She Built NYC Committee (2018)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/307-18/she-built-nyc-de-blasio-administration-advisory-panel-commission-public-artwork |title=De Blasio Administration Announces Panel To Commission Artwork Honoring Women And Women's History|date= 2018-06-20 |website=City of New York |access-date=2019-12-21}}</ref> by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
==Publications== *Linton, Simi (2006). ''My Body Politic'', University of Michigan Press {{ISBN|978-0-472-11539-6}} *Linton, Simi (1988). ''Claiming Disability'', New York University Press {{ISBN|978-0-8147-5134-3}}
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===External links=== *{{IMDb title|title=tt1776210|description=Invitation to Dance}}
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