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Car
@carlyriegger.com
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Car (they/them)

Disabled Interdisciplinary Artist ♿️
• Ceramics, glass, fiber, sculpture
• MFA 3rd Year, UW-Madison
• MA in Disability Studies, CUNY
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Car @carlyriegger.com · Feb 25
Exciting moments from my qualifier. More images coming soon! #disability #art #ceramics
A close up image of a white bedsheet wrinkled with a porcelain foot laying on top. It is realistic taken from a life cast but also crumbling and falling apart.
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Stringing Myself Together
2025
Porcelain, String, Foam

I string myself together, continually remaking myself, my breaking and pain as an expression of my resilience and power.
a white porcelain body cast of a torso, strung together with thread with a foam arm hanging at the end. Together they make one body. The porcelain torso is sitting on a cube of foam A close up image of the connection of white String weaving through the Foam arm
November 27, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Chrysalis
Beeswax, Bedsheet
2025

The bed as a cocoon, the pupa in transition, the ill body and its bed are often one. I continue to synthesize the chronically ill body with its created environment to be safe, comfortable, and thrive. The bedspace is a portal.

#Mold #Sculpture #DisabledArtist
A beeswax cast of a curled up body with her leg on her chest and foot by her hip. The beeswax is a very light yellow color. It is placed on a swirling circular, rippling, white bed sheet. A close up image of the foot and hip casted in beeswax
November 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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seamusaloysius.bsky.social
AIDS Memorial Quilt on display October 11-13 1996 on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Let us never forget.
The image shows the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt on display on the National Mall in Washington D.C. in October 1996. This particular display, from October 11-13, 1996, was the last time the entire quilt was shown in its entirety, covering the vast expanse of the National Mall from the Washington Monument towards the U.S. Capitol. It featured over 40,000 panels and drew approximately 1.2 million visitors.
June 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Today I was accused of not doing enough to fight for disabled people.

Shamed for not being at protests or more active in boycotts.

I’m housebound, almost completely bedbound.

I would love to be out protesting, but my body can’t do it.

I can’t help anyone if I don’t survive🧵
June 8, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
“You don’t need a respirator for pollen, take antihistamines”

“No point masking for smoke unless you’re wearing it 24/7”

“They don’t work for Covid unless fit tested”

We’ve failed at harm reduction. Even if something isn’t 100%, if you reduce risk & harm, that’s worth it!
June 8, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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fallonturing.bsky.social
PLEASE share this update as much as y'all did the first one! Bluesky did NOT fix their violent ableism towards me, and in fact doubled down on their assertion that ableist is a slur.
fallonturing.bsky.social Fallon [holiday shop sale until 12/15, comms closed] @fallonturing.bsky.social · Jun 7
HEY NEVERMIND THEY'RE STILL PUNISHING ME FOR BEING DISABLED. @moderation.bsky.app why are you ableist as fuck? #a11y #neisvoid #disability
June 7, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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HEY NEVERMIND THEY'RE STILL PUNISHING ME FOR BEING DISABLED. @moderation.bsky.app why are you ableist as fuck? #a11y #neisvoid #disability
They removed my ableism list again My email to moderation. I'm gonna need you to justify censoring my personal moderation list for ableists TWICE now. After you broke your own policy to nuke it once, then replaced it without explanation, then sent me another alleged violation notice. How is not wanting to deal with ableism so offensive to you? Who keeps making these punitive decisions without any communication from a human? I am appealing on behalf of all my lists you have unfairly censored on my account fallonturing, including the ableism one which I thought I'd censored enough on my end for you to approve of. I've now removed all profanity. Is that good enough? I just don't understand what you want here. I thought you wanted community moderation. that means letting users make judgmwnt calls based on personal opinion. What is your standard of evidence for unsupported claims? Should I start keeping a spreadsheet? Does that seem like a fair standard to apply to regular users? Fix this.
June 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Glass Pillowcase
Glass
2025

#Disability #DisabledArtist #glass #pillows
A clear sheet of glass folded on two corners. It has height in the center like a pillow is encased in it. Angled photograph. A clear sheet of glass folded on two corners. It has height in the center like a pillow is encased in it.
June 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Excavate
Glass, ceramic bits, pillows
2025
A life cast of a leg casted in glass. Ceramic bits are embedded in the glass of the toes. The foot is broken from the ceramic bits and have visible fragmentation in the glass. The leg rests on a pile of several pillows that are uncovered. A closer view of the broken glass foot with tan shards of ceramic in it. A close view of the toes with bits of ceramic
May 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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A Resting Place for an Aching Body, 2025.
Porcelain, Pillows, bed sheet, pillow sheets.

Nicer detail shots from my qualifier exhibition!
three porcelain life casted objects: two legs and a hand on a tummy. They lay on a fluffy surface with a white bedsheet. From the bed, a pile of white pillows form a body that has the tummy and hand piece in the middle. The porcelain has cracks and some parts crumbled that lay on the bedsheet. A detail photograph of a porcelain life casted thigh and knee connected to a pillow that has many creases and folds A slight different angle of the pillows stacked up that form a body with the legs coming out to the right A detail of the other knee with a hand grabbing the leg tightly. There are many cracks in the porcelain
March 11, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Uncontained, 2025.

This image shows pieces: Gasp and Weighed Down.

More beautiful install shots ❤️
A stack of white pillows holding a glass bubble that has a ribcage wrapped around it. Beyond the glass piece is another ribcage hanging from the ceiling from yarn. It also has yarn drooping down as if the ribs were soft and melting.
March 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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New professional photo 💘
Car with purple dyed hair in a mullet cut looks at the camera with a small smile next to their new work. Their piece "Gasp" a mix of ceramic and glass is to the right. They are wearing a black and gold shiny button down shirt with a black vest over top.
March 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Exciting moments from my qualifier. More images coming soon! #disability #art #ceramics
A close up image of a white bedsheet wrinkled with a porcelain foot laying on top. It is realistic taken from a life cast but also crumbling and falling apart.
February 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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The process of a piece that's currently in my qualifier exhibition!

Gasp, 2025.

#ceramics #glass #art #disability #disabledartist
February 20, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Qualifier exhibition is almost fully installed and it feels like a dream. I'm so tired.
February 17, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Still adding folks to this 🤩 #EDS #Neurodivergent #Disability #DisabledArtist #Artist #Creator #Disabled #Accessible #ADA
carlyriegger.com Car @carlyriegger.com · Jan 27
Disabled Creators Starter Pack has begun! Comment or message if you want your account included 🥰♿️ #disability #disabledartists #disabledcreators
February 13, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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I can't believe this is so soon! Installing this weekend 😬 I have some exciting surprises in my newest pieces that I'm excited to share with everyone. #disability #DisabledArtist #ceramics #porcelain #clay
A poster for my MFA 2nd Year review titled "uncontained" in a dripping black font. Car's name below reads "Carly 'Car' Riegger." Above the title is a porcelain hand dripping water.
February 13, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Urns from a few months back. #pottersofblusky #potteryurns
February 5, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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maosbot.bsky.social
Don't wait to stand up for disability rights until you become disabled yourself
February 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Sculpted by a cancer. Painted by a cancer rising 🦀 @mango-witch.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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meghcallie.bsky.social
Dandelion mug! New design I’ve been thinking about for awhile. #pottersofbluesky
February 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Everyone loves Inky photos 🖤🐈‍⬛️
#blackcat #inky
Inky lounging in bed with light shining through the drapes in the windows behind her. The bed has grey sheets. Inky is a black cat with a relaxed expression in the photo. Inky, a black cat, in a silly position with her head upside down, tucked under her on the couch. She has bright yellow eyes and a pink string is next to her. Inky faces the camera in a loaf position, relaxed expression with windows and drapes in the background. Her eyes are half closed as she looks at the camera. She's ready for a nap. Inky looks up at the camera from a curled position in a white, oval bathroom sink. She gives a meek, silly expression. Her eyes are very big in the photo and she looks like a little baby. We call her "Sinky" when she sits in the sink.
February 4, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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vdelaneycreates.bsky.social
Astarion stoneware mugs with an optional 3D scar on the back will be available for the Valentine's Day drop Feb 10!

#astarion #bg3 #ceramics
January 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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vdelaneycreates.bsky.social
Photos are ready for the Valentine's Day drop Feb 10!!

#ceramics #anime
February 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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ashleyshoo.bsky.social
@cyborgapologist.bsky.social and I are guest editing a topical collection for Journal of Human-Technology Relations on Cyborg-Technology Relations. We would love submissions (due June 1, 2025) that take disabled tech use seriously. Full details here: journals.open.tudelft.nl/jhtr/catalog...
Cyborg-Technology Relations | Journal of Human-Technology Relations
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February 2, 2025 at 9:41 PM