Krip-Hop will feature several floor to ceiling photo-murals, excerpted from  pages of the graphic novel titled “Krip-Hop: Volume 1” by writer, Disability Justice advocate and founder of University of California, Los Angeles Krip-Hop Institute, Leroy Franklin Moore Jr. The Krip-Hop excerpts tell the semi-autobiographical story of “Little Leroy” in the 1980s who has cerebral palsy. He frequently attends a cypher in the Bronx, NY. He is too scared to dance in the cypher, so the young Black/Brown teen dance artists use him to be the lookout for police. Fast-forward to 2018 and Krip-Hop Superhero Black teenage girl, Roxanne, gains self-confidence in her powers as she learns about Krip-Hop Nation. In the excerpted photo murals on the gallery walls, viewers witness how Roxanne’s and Leroy's lives come together and inspire one another and their peers. This exhibit coincides with JUly 2025 Disability Pride Month, which celebrates disability as a cultural and social identity and brings attention to the rights of people with disabilities.

Leroy F. Moore Jr. has more than twenty years of experience within the fields of activism, journalism, writing and lecturing on race and disability in venues ranging from Harvard University, to The Whitney Museum, to media engagements for disability justice in Johannesburg South Africa. Leroy is the author of several books on Black Disabled issues ranging from poetry, children's books to graphic novels. These include Krip-Hop Volumes 1 and 2 (POOR Press, 2019), Black Disabled Art History 101 (Xochitl Justice Press, 2017) and Black Disabled Ancestors (POOR Press, 2020). Leroy is the co-founder of Krip-Hop Nation, with Rob DA' Noise Temple and Keith Jones, an organization that increases awareness in music and media outlets of the talents, history and rights of people with disabilities. Since the 1990s, he writes the column Illin-N-Chillin for POOR Magazine and is a founding member of the magazine’s school, The Homefulness and Decolonize Academy. Moore is one of the founding members of National Black Disability Coalition and activist around police brutality against people with disabilities. Leroy has started and helped start organizations like Disability Advocates of Minorities Organization to Sins Invalid and was an early thinker of Disability Justice. His cultural work includes film documentary, Where Is Hope: Police Brutality Against People with Disabilities. Moore was part of the 2021 Emmy award winning song and film for the Netflix’s Sports Documentary film on the Paralympics entitled, Rising Phoenix. In July 2019, under Krip-Hop Nation, Leroy organized the African Disabled Musicians San Francisco Bay Area Tour with disabled musicians from Uganda, Tanzina and The Democratic Republic of the Congo. Leroy has won many awards for his advocacy including the San Francisco Mayor’s Disability Council Award, the Local Hero Award from PBS's KQED, the Champion of Disabled People in the Media on Black Media Appreciation Night Award and he received  The United States Artists Award for his writing/poetry. In 2021 UCLA recognized Leroy’s founding work in Krip-Hop and Disability Justice by accepting him as a Ph.D. student in the Anthropology department. He presented at the Trans-National Strategies in Erasing Black Ableism – A Krip-Hop Meet-Up, on October 22-26th 2024 where Moore and poet Kelvin Sauls talked about Black Ableism and its effects in the Black community locally and internationally. In  2025 Leroy will be presenting at the Black Anthropology Annual Conference in Dakar, Senegal, Africa. Leroy F. Moore Jr. website: https://kriphopinstitute.com/

Todd Edward Herman is a visual artist and curator. He is the founding director of East Window Gallery in North Boulder and co-founder of the Sins Invalid Performance Project, a performance project that incubates, celebrates and centralizes artists with disabilities, artists of color, queer and gender-variant artists. He has been the recipient of many awards for his work including, the Emerging Curator Award from The San Francisco Art Commission, the New Visions Award from San Francisco International Film Festival, grants from The Art Council of Northern Ireland, San Francisco Film Arts Foundation, Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowship, The Arts Commission, Community Foundation and Arts Alliance of Boulder County. Todd has presented his films and photographs at such venues as The International Film Festival Rotterdam, San Francisco International Film Festival, Southbank Centre, Design Museum of Chicago, New Benaki Museum, Kharkiv Holocaust Museum, Melbourne Museum of Art, Anthology Film Archives, San Francisco Cinematheque and Pacific Film Archives. He has curated exhibits and screenings at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, RedLine Contemporary Art Center, The Dairy Arts Center and Leon Gallery.