Hello, I’m Rae

Rae Lanzerotti is an access artist who uses disability access tools artistically. They make multimodal memoir comics and zines, tactile art books, and sculptural assemblages to stretch visual media into tactual, audible, and other vivid dimensions. When sudden vision loss changed how they read, Rae started making graphic medicine on topics like seeing double, aging, queerness, and community. Their artwork shows locally in San Francisco at the Museum of Craft and Design, Ruth’s Table, Fully Tactile SF, and the iconic “Hearts in San Francisco,” as well as internationally in the Wellcome Collection (London, UK) 2025 display Zines Forever: DIY Publications & Disability Justice. Rae 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 San Francisco Center for the Book (2025) and the Graphic Medicine International Conference (2023). Rae has developed touchable, audible, multi-sensory installations for local museum community education projects and exhibitions.

Rae serves on the Accessibility Committee for Museum of Craft and Design, and has served as an inaugural Artist Council member for Radical Resilience, with Ruth’s Table as well as board member for the Graphic Medicine International Collective.

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!

2025
Radical Resilience: Holding the Line at Ruth’s Table with SF Bay Area disabled artists, August 15 to September 26, 2025.

Exploring Maps: Fully Tactile Art SF, Celebrating the Art of Touch and Accessibility, San Francisco, August 30 to September 7, 2025.

Collage-O-Rama, “Monochrome,” with Special Agent Collage Collective, and “Squatch,” with Hope Amico. Seattle, May 9 to June 7, 2025.

Zines Forever! DIY Publications and Disability Justice, a focused display at Wellcome Collection (London, UK) features my Embodied: a memoir comic with multiple accessible formats. March 14 to September 14, 2025.

“From the Bench,” San Francisco Center for the Book, short studio visit featuring access art tools and works in progress, March 6, 2025.

Hearts in San Francisco 2025, on display at SF Ferry Building! Auction of unique Heart sculptures by 22 artists raises funds for SF General Hospital Foundation.

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!
Wellcome Collection (London, UK) acquired original artwork, including unpublished drawings, for Embodied, a memoir comic viewable online in late 2025 as well as available onsite; plus a handful of my zines searchable online in the Collections.

San Francisco Center for the Book Biblioshop (San Francisco, CA) sells a few of my zines, including the last few editions of Embodied, a memoir comic, now out of print!

McMaster University Health Sciences Library Graphic Medicine Collection (Hamilton, ON, Canada) searchable links to Seeing InBetween, my collaborative webcomic with Illi A. Heger.
Sherwood Forest Zine Library (Austin, TX)