With support from the California Arts Council, Creative Growth will fortify a year-long Visiting Artist Program to provide new opportunities for artists with disabilities to engage with 25 diverse artistic voices from throughout the Bay Area. The Visiting Artist Program will offer free events for the public including artist lectures, exhibitions, and themed drawing classes, integrating Creative Growth’s artists, staff, and visitors to build empathy and strengthen the overall community.
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.

