Sip413 Gallery, Parts Work: Accepting Identity, a solo exhibition on Disability & LGBTQ Identity

Jul 2

Sip413’s July gallery show, “Parts Work: Accepting Identity,” is a collection of photographs and ceramics exploring the sensations of joy, curiosity, exploration, and tension that come up while creating. This show is a celebration of Disability Pride Month, focusing on personal and shared experiences of finding identity and meaning through making art.

Artist Bio
Kristin Schiff (she/her) has been pursuing photography since 2018 and has been active in ceramics since 2023. She has a background in Psychology, focusing on Adoption Studies from her studies at University of Massachusetts: Amherst. For over a decade she worked as an Industrial Psychologist, before pursuing Art as a career in October 2025. Her photos have been featured in group expositions at galleries, restaurants, coworking spaces and community art centers—both juried and non-juried—in New England, Maryland, Seattle & New York.

Artist Statement
As a person living with several disabilities and a member of the LGBTQ+ community, finding ways to form positive experiences and connections with my body is central to my art. My identity and body is often politicized, and art offers me to opportunity to explore and process those feelings and experiences.

I make ceramics inspired by the feelings in my body when I enter the studio. Creating ceramics is the time I feel the most in-tune and happy in my body. All my work is inspired by the joy I feel in the physical action of creation. My photography is especially tied to my love of nature and history. I love travel to historical places, national and start parks, botanical gardens and wildlife refuges. Taking my camera pushes me physically to explore these places and also to slow down and appreciate all the details.