Hello, I’m Rae

Rae Lanzerotti is an access artist and somatic teacher immersed in disability access tools as art.

They make audiographic memoir comics and zines, multimodal art books, and big assemblages to stretch comics from visual media into tactual, audible, and other vivid, new dimensions. When sudden vision loss changed how they read, Rae started making their own graphic medicine on topics like seeing double, aging, queerness, and community. They won awards for two innovative and multimodal projects in the Accessible Comics Design Competition (2022) and presented on the challenges of accessible comics design at the Graphic Medicine Conference (2023). More recently, Rae has been developing touchable, audible, multi-sensory installations for local museum community education projects and exhibitions.

Rae serves as a board member for the Graphic Medicine International Collective, a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing the uses of comics in health; an inaugural member of the Accessibility Committee for Museum of Craft and Design; and as an inaugural Artist Council member for Radical Resilience, with Ruth’s Table.

Rae is a longtime teacher of somatic and contemplative practices with elders in integrative health settings and community organizations.

Find zines in the BiblioShop of San Francisco Center for the Book, or contact directly for artwork, permissions (for example, if you wish to reprint any comic, illustration or text from this website), and to ask about collaborating. Thanks for reading!

2024
Hearts in San Francisco 2025, among 22 artists selected for the public art project supporting Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG).

Fully Tactile Art Exhibition, Intersection for the Arts/Jettison Creative. “Depth Perception, Part 3: Street,” textured tactile foil + audio “City Cane Travels.” San Francisco, July 24 to 28, 2024.

Comics Beyond Sight, Innovations in Accessible Comics for Blind & Low Vision Readers, 2024 Graphic Medicine Conference poster exhibition, Athlone, Ireland and online.

Radical Resilience exhibition and Virtual Gallery at Ruth’s Table highlighting SF Bay Area artists who are deeply engaged in creating art while also living with disabilities, March 28 - June 7, 2024.
Indie Folk, Museum of Craft and Design MakeArt Accessible Artist, April to June 2024.
Mr. Roboto Museum of Craft and Design MakeArt Accessible Artist, February to June 2024. Visit #MCDatHome MakeArt instructions.

Pride in Panels: SF Queer Comics Festival exhibitor, February 18.

MakeArt Activation, “Robot Light Motif,” with Museum of Craft and Design and LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, San Francisco, February 1.

2023

San Francisco Zine Fest Exhibitor, September 3.

Graphic Medicine International Conference Presenter, “Visionary Comics: Accessible graphic medicine,” Toronto, July 13-15.

Sick and Disabled Zine & Craft Fair Exhibitor, a fully virtual zine and craft fair, June 18-24, 2023.

Accessible Comics Competition Prizewinner & Symposium Presenter, May 5. SFSU Longmore Institute on Disability

Dear Diary Zine Fest Exhibitor, online April 30 - May 6.

Creators’ Space Presenter, “Embodied,” LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, San Francisco, March 24.

These collections hold my graphic medicine and memoir comics!

McMaster University Health Sciences Library Graphic Medicine Collection (Hamilton, ON, Canada)
Sherwood Forest Zine Library (Austin, TX)
Wellcome Collection (London, UK)
San Francisco Center for the Book Biblioshop (San Francisco, CA)