SF TRANSPORTATION SUMMIT WITH SAN FRANCISCO SENIOR & DISABILITY ACTION
Monday, September 22 | 5:00-6:30 PM
Onsite | Free
Ruth's Table and Senior and Disability Action invite you to join us to learn about transit access in the Bay Area. We will discuss gaps in the SFMTA budget and create protest art that highlights the need to prioritize senior and disabled people's transit access needs!
San Francisco Senior and Disability Action mobilizes and educates seniors and people with disabilities to fight for individual rights and social justice. Through individual support and collective action, we work together to create a city and world in which seniors and people with disabilities can live well and safely.
As part of this session, exhibiting artist Jillian Crochet will share the fabric protest signs she has created for the back of her power wheelchair and guide participants through a hands-on fabric appliqué process. Guests will design their own protest or consciousness-raising message signs to take home—signs that can be displayed on wheelchairs, walkers, bikes, strollers, or bags to carry their voices into the streets and onto transit.
About the Artist: Jillian Crochet is a disabled interdisciplinary artist, writer, and activist based in the Bay Area working in sculpture, video, and performance to engage embodied perception and challenge inaccessibility. As a power wheelchair user, her work responds to and negotiates the pervasive inaccessibility of the built environment, overtly addressing barriers through signage and performance as both institutional intervention and persistent advocacy. She is currently a Center for Craft Teaching Artist Cohort Grant recipient and has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at YBCA’s Bay Area Now Triennial, Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt, SOMArts, and the Alabama Contemporary Art Center.
Artwork Credit: Jillian Crochet, “We Keep Each Other Safe.” 2025. Fabric applique protest sign.
Registration: RSVP Here
Visitor Guidelines: Face masks are optional.
Access: Ruth’s Table and adjacent green space are wheelchair accessible.
ASL Interpretation: ASL interpretation is available upon request. 72-hour notice required.
Donate: The program is free, donations are welcome. Donate →