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Monument at Minnesota Street Project, curated by Ajit Chauhan
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Join us at Imaginate Saturdays at our colorful studio, where the public can make art alongside our imaginative artists! Supplies provided, drop in as you please. All ages and abilities welcome.
Creativity Explored is pleased to present Drawn Together, a group exhibition celebrating human connection and the expressive power of an artist’s line.
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Join us for our Summer Studio Sale and shop hundreds of original artworks, including first-time releases from the archives and studio favorites starting at just $5! All purchases directly support our community of artists with disabilities.
Creativity Explored is pleased to present a group exhibition of studio artists that utilize existing cultural iconography to map out their daily lives and experiences. The title, "Down the Hills and Around the Bends," is an excerpt from the theme song for the children's television series Thomas & Friends, a narrative that artist Grayson Kop uses to discuss his friendships, interactions, activities and routine.
Get ready for an extraordinary evening at Art Changes Lives! This year, we come together to celebrate the many ways our artists overcome limitations. You’re part of this story. Join us as we celebrate the CE community and the artists who continue to push beyond expectations, redefining what is possible through their work and their lives. Your support makes so much possible.
Pretty City is a journey through the unique neighborhoods of San Francisco from the perspectives of JayD Green, Isaias Gomez, Camille Holvoet, Lance Rivers, Guadalupe Ramos, and Enkh-Amar Shagdarguntev. By highlighting the visual intricacy just outside our front doors, Pretty City transforms our typical streets into captivating dreamscapes.
Visit us at this year’s Outsider Art Fair, Booth C3!
Creativity Explored is thrilled to bring an art fair championing artists with disabilities to downtown San Francisco! Partnering with The Open Invitational, we'll bring together progressive studios from across the country, providing individual funding so that studios can join when other fairs have traditionally been out of reach.
Creativity Explored is proud to present a solo exhibition of Hung Kei Shiu, one of the studio’s very first artists. Shiu is known for his abstract works made up of tiny hatched line segments, loose circles, and short blocks of color. His marks accumulate, subtly altering in size, assembling into stunning abstractions and transformations of objects. With his organic layering of paint, Shiu patiently builds fields of delicate color within his marks until the finished artwork , resulting in echoes with a deep sense of space.
Find artful gifts for everyone you love in one go at our Holiday Art Shop! We'll be featuring hundreds of one-of-a-kind artworks and unique products, plus drinks, music, and community. Your presence (and purchases!) will directly support our community of artists with disabilities.
Creativity Explored is proud to partner with Adobe Books to exhibit Cuentos en Colores. Through the immersive work of artists with disabilities who live, work, and create in the Mission district, Cuentos en Colores foregrounds voices too often excluded from cultural conversations. Challenging a monolithic idea of what Latine identity is, this exhibition insists on the continued presence of Latine identity by affirming that no single definition can contain its fullness.
Come celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at Creativity Explored with a fun-filled day of art-making. Enjoy hands-on crafts, delicious bites, and learn more about Hispanic heritage — all completely free! Bring the whole family — everyone is welcome. Creativity Explored is an art studio in the Mission District that champions neurodivergent artists by providing studio space, materials, and support. Our venue is ADA accessible. No prior artmaking experience necessary.
Places for People offers multiple and varying expressions of this right to the city. Through drawings and mixed media works, the artists in this exhibition explore the relationships between people and the built environment, forging, as the artist Mildred Howard has noted, “a bridge between creative minds, regardless of ability.” Whether recasting familiar guideposts and landmarks, expressing political activism and protest, or showcasing the diverse groups of people that call San Francisco their home, these artists provide unique vantage points from which to reconsider our shared environment, and demonstrate the creative promise that the city continues to offer.
Komorebi, a Japanese word without direct English translation, captures the quiet beauty of sunlight filtering through leaves — a fleeting moment where light and shadow meet. This exhibition brings together works that explore subtle rhythms of pattern and the spaces between clarity and obscurity. Like its namesake, Komorebi invites a closer look and a deeper attention to the world around us.
This summer at Outer Space in Concord, NH—a contemporary gallery situated in an old Victorian mansion that usually pairs two artists to have their work in dialogue together—the space will turn itself over to the San Francisco-based organization Creativity Explored.
Black Gold: Stories Untold invites 17 contemporary artists and collectives to reflect on the resilience, struggles, and triumphs of African Americans who lived in California from the Gold Rush to the Reconstruction period following the Civil War (c. 1849–1877). Through newly commissioned and recent artworks, the exhibition highlights important but lesser-known figures and narratives from California’s history, exploring the presence of slavery and the struggle for legal rights within this “free” state, the successes of Black entrepreneurs, and the experiences of African American Army regiments known as the Buffalo Soldiers. More broadly, Black Gold illuminates the role that Black communities played in the state’s cultural, social, and political environment of the time.
This show is all about comfort text: resilience in everyday words, writing and reading. Expression can also be wordless, the use of line and color as new vocabulary, pushing a thought out onto a surface, making marks and continuously trying to communicate with the world.
We tell stories to sustain ourselves and find each other. These messages embedded in art become an emotional telegram– a signal flare with a flame of memory trailing behind it. Feeling Language is about books, lists, slogans, language, gesture, touch and the trust given in sharing.
Get ready for an extraordinary evening at Art Changes Lives! This year, we come together to reflect on the pathways that artists take throughout their journey with CE – from their early inspirations to their current creative expressions. You’re part of our journey. Join us as we celebrate the CE community and the many paths that our artists take - as creators and individuals. Your support makes so much possible.
In conjunction with our all-ceramic exhibition, Main Characters, we’re hosting a hands-on air-dry clay modeling workshop right here in the studio.
Visit us at this year’s San Francisco Art Fair, Booth C19!
Recognizing the indelible contributions of artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities working in the visual arts, this exhibition challenges conventional narratives and broadens our understanding of creativity, innovation, and expression. Since Creative Growth’s opening in 1974 and the subsequent launch of NIAD in 1982 and Creativity Explored in 1983, these institutions have been at the forefront of creating visibility for artists with disabilities in the Bay Area. We are honored to present 65 artists—with practices at these organizations—in a comprehensive survey that includes media from ceramics and textiles to figurative and abstract painting and drawing.
Highlighting a wide selection of ceramic sculptures from Creativity Explored's archive, Main Characters brings together a diverse cast of protagonists with intertwined storylines. By placing these unique characters together, new narratives surface with each new context; acting out layered stories within the artist's imagination, their lived experiences, and the larger history of our organization.
A group exhibition of Creativity Explored artists including Andrew Bixler, Gerald Wiggins, Andrew Wong, Nubia Ortega, and many more.
A group exhibition of over two hundred artists from seven progressive art making studios at & Byeond Gallery in Oakland.
Fellow Profressive Art Studios featured include Creative Growth, NIAD, Fountain House, Pure Vision, ECF, and Project Onward.
Visit us at this year’s Outsider Art Fair, Booth C3!
Ethereal Material, Ethel Revita's first solo exhibition, invites viewers to immerse themselves in the dynamic interplay of color, texture, and pattern that defines her practice. Revita combines a strong understanding of geometric form and an intuitive approach to color, creating an aesthetic realm saturated with generosity and connection. Through Etherial Material, Revita’s vision illuminates a brightness and complexity that simmers with a quiet confidence.
Join us for our annual Holiday Art Shop!
Join us for our Vip Holiday Soirée!
Join us for an all day event at Market Market in Palm Springs for the opening of TRIPLETS on November 9th! Come enjoy HiFi vinyl DJ, food, beverage, bar and a SheChimp activation.
All are welcome!
Join us for a special walk-through of All Things in Motion with guest curator Jonathan Carver Moore.
All Things in Motion reminds us that nothing is ever stagnant. We are constantly moving and changing. Whether we are experiencing bliss, mundanity or grief–life does not stop–its flow continues, and we must move along with it.
From local galleries to international art fairs, our artists have shared their work with the world for over 40 years—shaping contemporary art and redefining inclusion in the arts.
Discover the legacy of Creativity Explored through decades of exhibitions.
Ethel Revita on Salesforce Tower
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Animated artworks by Ethel Revita light up Salesforce Tower each night at midnight during April.
Cheryle Rutledge on Salesforce Tower
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Look to the San Francisco skyline on Valentine’s Day for an installation on the Salesforce Tower featuring work by Cheryle Rutledge, created in partnership with Jim Campbell Studio.