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Redefining contemporary art.

Each NIAD artwork is an original piece of contemporary art that tells an individual story from the perspective of an artist with disabilities. Frequently remarkable, surprising, and engaging, NIAD artwork has become a highlight of the Richmond art scene and has received recognition from the national art community.

11/20/2025

This holiday season, help NIAD go Beyond the Frame — expanding what art and access can be. When you give to NIAD, you’re supporting more than creativity. You’re investing in rights, equity, visibility, and a joyful community where artists with disabilities thrive.

Your gift today ensures NIAD remains a creative home that uplifts artists, challenges conventions, and opens the art world to everyone.

Please donate today: https://niadart.org/pages/donate-now

Thank you for your support.

Image: NIAD artists and staff members in the 23rd Street courtyard celebrating Studio Facilitator Andrés Cisneros-Galindo's birthday.

11/18/2025

NIAD is so excited to be participating in the SF Book Bazaar at The Lab on Dec 6th! In addition to handmade artist books and prints, we’ll be bringing our new book PULLEY with Christopher Robin Duncan, published on the occasion of our recent exhibition at the Berkeley Art Center. The limited edition book was designed by Land and Sea Oakland and features essays by Duncan and Elena Gross, quotes from NIAD artists, and images of the workshop and exhibition.

Special thanks to the SF Art Book Fair, librarian David Senior Jr, organizer Colapress and the Lab for hosting.

Learn more at: https://www.thelab.org/projects/2025/12/6/small-press-book-bazaar

11/14/2025

NIAD is a creative home for established artists like Felicia Griffin.

Earlier this fall, Felicia celebrated a major milestone — a 40-year career retrospective in NIAD’s Annex Gallery, highlighting her work in textiles, printmaking, ceramics, painting, and drawing. She’s also a 2024 Wynn Newhouse Art Prize awardee.

Felicia’s impact reaches far beyond the frame. It shows up in the care she brings to the studio, her connection to the broader art community, and her decades of elevating visibility for artists with disabilities.

At a time when rights and resources are increasingly at risk, NIAD remains committed to disability justice, access, and creative opportunity.
Will you help champion the next generation of artists like Felicia?

Please donate today at: https://niadart.org/pages/donate-now

Thank you for your donation!

Photo credit: RJ Mickelson

11/13/2025

Big news! 🎉 For the first time, NIAD artists are participating in premier art fairs — expanding visibility and representation on some of the art world’s biggest stages.

These fairs offer incredible opportunities for collectors, curators, and audiences to experience the powerful work of NIAD artists — and to see how disability and creativity intersect to shape contemporary art.

Follow along for fair updates as NIAD takes this exciting next step! Read our press release to learn more: https://bit.ly/43ZHMp6

Featured art by: Karen May and Sylvia Fragoso

11/11/2025

📖✨ Join us this Saturday, November 15, 3-5 pm at Berkeley Art Center for the closing reception of PULLEY — and the launch of our limited-edition book!

Created by NIAD artists in collaboration with multidisciplinary artist Christopher Robin Duncan, PULLEY explores creative exchange, interdependence, and the shared act of making.

The PULLEY book features documentation of the artists’ workshop with Duncan, installation photography, and essays by Duncan and Elena Gross that illuminate the spirit of collaboration behind the exhibition.
Come celebrate this remarkable project, experience the show one last time, and take home your copy of PULLEY. Free and open to all. Let us know you’re coming: https://bit.ly/49eV6JS

🗓 Saturday, November 15, 3:00-5:00 PM
📍 Berkeley Art Center

11/07/2025

NIAD artists redefine what art can be — their creativity moves beyond the frame to advance accessibility, disability justice, and community joy.

This giving season, your support fuels that movement. As public funding dwindles, community donors like you help NIAD artists continue to thrive and push boundaries.
✨ Help us reach our $50,000 goal and keep creativity flourishing.

Please donate today: https://niadart.org/pages/donate-now

Thank you for your support!

Photo: Artist Karen May and Substitute Studio Facilitator Jake Ellis in the ceramics area of the studio. Credit: RJ Mickelson

11/05/2025

Just a few days away! 🎶 🖼️

Join us this Saturday, November 8, for the opening reception of And Yet, We Must Rejoice — featuring work by 38 NIAD artists across sculptural, painting, drawing, textiles, and more.

Enjoy live jazz from The Bryant Bolling Quintet, a five-piece ensemble known for their vibrant, soulful sound — plus food, drinks, community, and a joyful afternoon celebrating art and connection. Free and open to all.

🕕 1-4 PM at NIAD Art Center, 551 23rd St. Richmond, CA

For more details, visit: https://niadart.org/blogs/events/and-yet-we-must-rejoice

Featured artists: Felicia Griffin, Alycia Cowen, Max Wheaton, Karen May, Jason Powell-Smith, Jesus Salas

11/03/2025

The artworks in this show both celebrate and shield the inevitable. They represent symbols that cheer the macabre or defiantly protect against its power. They mark the time of their creation or define each artist's footprint. Yet, most of all, they claim space, as monuments to their creators' existence."

Anthony reflects on transitional times in this excerpt from the show statement:

"For all of us, whether we accept it or not, we live within death's specter. Yet, mortality is not the negative often portrayed, particularly in America whose culture tends towards a celebration of eternal youth. Many other cultures embrace death, not as the end but part of an existential transition, or a moment that sets forth a series of interactions between the living and the dead, or even a system of multiple deaths and rebirths...

The artworks in this show both celebrate and shield the inevitable. They represent symbols that cheer the macabre or defiantly protect against its power. They mark the time of their creation or define each artist's footprint. Yet, most of all they claim space, as monuments to their creators' existence."

Click on the link to learn about the powerful, haunting, and celebratory items in this month's collection 🎃 👻 ✨ and thank you Anthony for paving our way! https://niadart.org/collections/the-way-to-the-brave-is-just-the-same-organized-by-anthony-marcellini

10/30/2025

Save the Date! ✨ And yet, we must rejoice! ✨
Join us for the opening reception on November 8 in our galleries, 1:00-4:00 PM, featuring art, live music by The Bryant Bolling Quintet, food & drinks. This free community event welcomes everyone to experience the power of joy as resilience — and the beauty of handmade art that brightens our homes and hearts.

Every piece you buy supports artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities at NIAD Art Center.

Come celebrate creativity, community, and the effervescent spirit of love and hope that connects us all. Click on the link to learn more: https://niadart.org/blogs/events/and-yet-we-must-rejoice

10/24/2025

Two wildly different artists, one beautiful Silent Auction.

Both of these terrific pieces by NIAD artists Dre’An Cox and Hacer Acma are now open for bids on the Win Win 11 website!

🔗Silent Auction link in bio.

Dre’An Cox’s work is mimetic in nature, often appropriating and mining the rich imagery of animation and fantasy games to create politically-charged works that speak of the moment. This untitled painting resembles the costume elements Dre’An has created to wear to political marches and protests.

Hacer Acma loves to work with fabric. She adores patterned fabric with flowers, the more elaborate the better, which she embroiders on top of. She has made several wall hangings of which she is quite proud. “Tiger” is representative of Hacer’s more recent forays into hand-tufted rug-making.

Video description:
1. NIAD artist Dre’An Cox, wearing a black and white mushroom hat and sleeveless leather jacket, works with pencil and paper at a table in the NIAD studio.

2. “Untitled”
Dre’An Cox
Acrylic on wood sculpture
42 x 16 x .5”
Win Win 11 Silent Auction Lot #832

3. Dre’An dressed in mask and shield, holding up an anti-Trump sign in an outdoor setting.

4. Hacer Acma knitting in the NIAD studio.

5. “Tiger”
Hacer Acma
Tufted yarn on stretched fabric and canvas
10 x 10”
Win Win Silent Auction Lot #800

6. Hacer Acma posing next to “Tiger” and another tufted rug work in the NIAD gallery.

10/12/2025

✊🏾The History of Black History through NIAD artist Arstanda Billy White!

Arstanda is standing in front of NIAD’s Artist of the Month wall, circa 2019.

NIAD artist Dorian Reid created the wall text - “WE ARE CREATING OUR HISTORY” - in hand-painted black and red letters that feel powerful, determined, and LOUD.

✒️ Former NIAD artist Serena Scott’s text-based ink drawings are strung along the wall.

🍌 Take note, too, of NIAD artist Felicia Griffin’s soft sculpture draped deliciously across a chair.

🎙️ The soundtrack is Arstanda working with NIAD Sound Recordings: his rendition of James Brown’s classic funk bop “Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud”.

Video description: A montage of three still images of a man with dark skin wearing a dapper gray cap; a red, black and grey argyle sweater, thick glasses and blue striped track pants. Billy flexes a bicep in the first two images and puts his hand on his chest in the last image. He is standing in an interior art studio setting, with a mural, two pedestals and a chair behind him.

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