With support from the California arts Council, Creative Growth Art Center will partner with the Down Syndrome Connection of the Bay Area (DSCBA) to provide a series of facilitated art classes with Creative Growth client artist Nicole Storm, supportive by Creative Growth teaching artist facilitators, to culminate in a multi-site exhibition for Creative Growth’s 50th Anniversary.
Creative Growth Art Center provides high-quality art studio and exhibition programming to 140-160 adult and young-adult artists with developmental and concurrent disabilities. In the studio art program, our artists explore a range of visual arts, including painting, drawing, print making, woodwork, ceramics, fiber arts, fashion design, rug making, mixed media, and digital arts. Eighteen staff art instructors facilitate our studio program, which Creative Growth artists attend one to five days per week. Our Saturday Youth Program provides early exposure to the arts for young people with disabilities ages 15–22. Creative Growth also provides gallery representation for our artists, each year presenting at least 6 exhibitions in our Oakland gallery and exhibiting our artists’ work in approximately 20 external art fairs, gallery shows, and museums in the US and Europe, including prestigious contemporary art fairs in Paris, New York, and Miami. Adult artists attend our program for free and receive 50% of net sales of their work.

