Artist Statement
Lorien Ilena Welchoff is a graduate of the Pacific Northwest College of Art. She is a graphic designer from Aloha, Oregon. She loves creating things that relate to the subjects of art and design. Lorien excels in motion graphics but also loves creating patterns and inspiring the disabled community by using motion graphic videos and poster design. I hope for others to learn what I hope to teach, and help them fight for the rights that they need. People can look disabled. Things around you may affect many people and that someone might be disabled even though they don't look like it. Growing up, I didn't get to travel much and see what the graphic design world is and has to offer. My first influence is Gustav Klimt. The usage of gold led him to success and this through his Golden Phase. His use of a limited palette brings out brighter accents of the violets and oranges and shows us that with the black areas, you can still create something that you will remember, which is what I try to do in my work. My second influence is László Moholy-Nagy. He was a Hungarian painter and photographer, and he was not afraid to try out other types of art and design. I am drawn to Maholy, not just for his story, and Bauhaus on its own (which I learned about it heavily during my Sophomore year at PNCA) but his uniqueness in the art world and how he found himself as an artist. I don't have much inspiration, since that is hard to find for a disabled student that is stuck at home. I create work of things that are happening now and what needs to get fixed, this is how I created my Thesis that is called: “Me, Portland, the Homeless and the Law.”
Me, Myself, and the Lawsuit Links:
Press Conference - ADA Plaintiffs vs City of Portland
EQUALITY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, THEN AND NOW
Pursuing an Agenda Beyond Barriers: Women with Disabilities
Presentation on Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
The ADA on the Road: Disability Rights in Germany
ENVIRONMENTAL BARRIERS AND DISABILITY
The Americans with Disabilities Act
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990: Progeny of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Same Struggle, Different Difference: ADA Accommodations as Antidiscrimination
The ADA Restoration Act of 2007: Why Is It Necessary?
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
Disability Rights
https://www.kgw.com/article/ne...
ADA Links:
https://www.ada.gov/law-and-re...
A History of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
ADA Amendments Act of 2008
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
https://mn.gov/mnddc/parallels...
Family Movement
A History of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act
ADA Books:
Wong, Alice. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century. New York: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020.
Jarman, Michelle, Monaghan, Leila, Quaggin Harkin, Alison. Barriers and Belonging: Personal Narratives of Disability. Temple University Press, 2017.
Catapano, Peter, Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie. About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times. Liverlight Publishing Corporation, 2019
The Rehabilitation Act Links:
Wikipedia's Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
Wikipedia's Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Rehabilitation Act of 1973