Exhibit: Create

Create showcases twenty artists' work made at three pioneering centers for artists with developmental disabilities, Oakland’s Creative Growth Art Center, Creativity Explored in San Francisco, and NIAD Art Center in Richmond. 

In the 1970s, when attitudes towards people with disabilities were changing and the disabled were gaining new legal rights, these centers developed an innovative new methodology for supporting artists with developmental disabilities. Their approach focused on a group studio environment, professionalism, and engagement with the broader art community.