[image description: Sandy lies face down on the floor of the museum Dia: Beacon. She is laying parallel to a neon sculpture by the artist Dan Flavin, whose colored lights reflect in the slate colored floor in a line of yellow, pink, and reddish tones. Sandy, who has light skin and brown hair, is wearing a white sweater, black pants, patterned socks, and patterned sneakers.]
Sandy Guttman is a writer, artist, and independent curator.
She maintains a curatorial practice through co-directing her apartment gallery—Curb Appeal—and consults on institutional accessibility and disability art and culture. Her museum experience includes project management in performance and programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art, working as both a curatorial assistant and an assistant curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and holding positions in both museum education and fundraising at the Art Institute of Chicago. The foundation for Guttman’s interest and training in disability art and accessible arts programming stems from her time as a graduate and program assistant for Bodies of Work, a disability art and culture consortium based in Chicago. She hold degrees in Disability Studies and Museum and Exhibition Studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Art History from Knox College. She is a founding editor of the arts and culture publication FWD: Museums.
I would like to acknowledge the ancestral lands of the Očeti Šakówiŋ, Miami, Bodéwadmiakiwen, Peoria, and Kiikaapoi peoples, also known as Chicago, where I was born and raised.