Opulent Mobility 2024 is live! Join us December 5-29 at the Los Angeles Makery and stay tuned for April 2025 when we will once again challenge you to re-imagine disability as opulent and powerful.

Opulent Mobility began with A. Laura Brody's first mobility artwork in 2009 and expanded to a small group exhibit in 2013. The 2015-2024 exhibits include artists from all around the US and the world.

Opulent Mobility is fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas, so any donations to help us grow are tax deductible. Let's re*imagine mobility, disability and accessibility together!

2016 to 2025
(and beyond)
December 2024: OM 2024 opens, preparations for OM retrospective at Brand Library begin
September 2024: Opulent Mobility retrospective at USC, part of Visions and Voices
October 2024: Enter the Goddesses 2 and the Art of Costume Couture open
August 2024: Guest speaker for Arts 4 LA's Ravin' Accessibility
June 2024: Guest speaker for Flora I. Bazie of Linoratech
May 2024: Guest artist for Disability Drawing Club, interview with Arts Ably
January 2024: OM at the Makery, Opulent Mobility Substack begins
December 2023: OM 2023 online, individual artist interviews on YouTube
October 2023: Enter the Goddess(es) opens
July 2023: The Plague Wear Gala airs
February 2023: Genius Teatime talk series begins
November 2022: Costume and device design for Inversions with Abilities Dance Boston
September 2022: OM 2022 at AVC Gallery
June 2022: interview on Kat Chudy's "DIY Access", article in Art and Cake Magazine
April 2022: Costume and device design for Intersections with Abilities Dance Boston
March 2022: interview on Susan Ruth's podcast "Hey Human"
December 2021: interview on Steve Silverman's podcast "World Gone Good"
November 2021: interview on Martin Sweeney's online show "In The Space"
"Mobility Re-imagined" online solo exhibit for A. Laura Brody with Ikouii Creative
October 2021: Opulent Mobility 2021 at Wingwalker Brewery
May 2021: Costume and device design for Abilities Dance Boston's new adaptive version of The Firebird ballet
March 2021: interview on the Creative Conversations podcast
December 2020: Online artist talk for OM 2020
October 2020: Collaboration with Abilities Dance Boston and the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
March 2020: Premiere of "Cultivate", a design collaboration with Abilities Dance Boston
April 2019: Opulent Mobility featured on StoryPunks Podcast, episodes 31 & 32
March 2019: Opulent Mobility collaboration with Ellice Patterson of Abilities Dance Boston featured on Boston Public Radio
January 2019: interview on the podcast "Who Lives Like This"
December 2018: OM 2018 at Thymele Arts in Hollywood December 2-8
July 2018: Online talk on mobility, diversity, and inclusion for AIGA DC's Non-Book Book Club
Interview on A. Laura Brody and Opulent Mobility for Voyage LA
January 2018: Wagon and wheelchair wheel covers for Huntington Hospital's pediatrics ward
November 2017: OM 2017
October 2017: Opulent Mobility fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas
April 2017: panel discussion at UCLA's Disability as Spectacle conference and virtual talk for the DisArts Symposium
October 2016: Brody joined UCLA's Tarjan Center Advisory committee as a representative of the arts

OM CURATORS
A. Laura Brody is a professional costume maker and designer who developed Opulent Mobility as a series of artworks, then built it into a juried group exhibit.
Anthony Tusler is a photographer and disability arts activist. His photographs of the 1977 disability occupation of the San Francisco Federal Building are iconic and featured on his website under the "Historical" section.

OM HISTORY

2015: Opulent Mobility group exhibit at California State University, Northridge's West Gallery. The exhibit featured 19 artists from all over California and as far away as Australia, the United Kingdom, Serbia and Taiwan.
2013: First group exhibit of Opulent Mobility at the Bell Arts Factory in Ventura, CA. The exhibit featured Zeina Baltagi, Dwight H. Bennett, Ms. Brody, Alan Deforest, Leonard Greco, Barbara Romain, Gwynneth VanLaven and Priscilla Sutton's Spare Parts slideshow.
2011-2012: Ms. Brody searched for wheelchair accessible places to show her work and researched the lack of design options in assistive technology. She sought other creators by mounting a group exhibit.
2010: Ms. Brody re*imagined her first walker.
2009: A. Laura Brody re*imagined her first wheelchair generously donated by Peter Soby.
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Opulent Mobility 2013 at the Bell Arts Factory in Ventura, CA.
Photos by A. Laura Brody

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