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Creativity Explored is an internationally celebrated nonprofit artist community and working studio where over 130 adult artists with developmental disabilities create, exhibit, and sell art. Founded in 1983 by art and disability pioneers Florence Ludins-Katz and Dr. Elias Katz, Creativity Explored’s programs and person-centered culture serve as an organizational model worldwide.

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Located in the Mission District of San Francisco, Creativity Explored advocates for our artists’ work as a valid and increasingly important contribution to the contemporary art world. As a result, studio artists have seen their work exhibited in museums, galleries, and art fairs in over 14 countries and have directly earned over $2.3 million from their art.

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The recent acquisition by SFMoMA and OMCA included several artists from Creativity Explored and our sister organizations, NIAD and Creative Growth, illustrates the long-awaited cultural expansion of who is collected, who is discussed and who is represented.

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Gallery Hours
Thursday & Friday | 3 - 6 PM
Saturday | 12-5 PM 

+ Saturday bonus: you can join in on a community art project if you come between 12-3! More information here.

Featured Artists

Three rows of people stare directly out at the viewer, there are 10 people in the top row and progressively more in the two rows below with many figures overlapping in the lowest row. The people all wear black clothing and facial features are rendered in thin black lines, and many of them hold brown canes. The people's faces are long and rectangular or trapezoidal, some seem to smile and show their teeth, while others frown and look ambivalent.

Kate Thompson

An abstract painting with loose brushwork features a form painted in browns, sage green, and black set against a dark background

Mary Ann Orozco

A large sculpture that shaped like tall geodes emerging from the ground that are taller on the right and scale down on the left side of the work. They are painted in bright colors--periwinkle, pink, yellow, pale yellow and blue. There are many drawings of faces and the sculpture is adorned with charms and jewelry. There is a cutout in the tallest section that has a potted plant and small figurines.

Samedi Djeimguero

An elaborate ceramic sculpture, glazed in an a grayish forest green, that has a base with a lip around it and the word "museum" appears to be inscribed in the clay at the front. The sculpture - seen from the side - has a rectacular pillar in the middle that features at the front elements of a dinosaur with two rows of sharp teeth; on the side a donkey-like figure; and a flattened brontasaurus-like dinosaur peeking from around the back. On the top of the rectangular column it appears there is a bird or a star.

Andrew Wong

View of a dimensional, shaped painting made from papier mâché, the perspective the painting is rendered in makes looks like a car that was flattened.

Pablo Calderon

Four columns featuring approximately ten rows of intricately drawn commuter trains installed in large windows.

James Leung

A gestural abstract painting with many layers of brushstrokes.

Kaocrew "Yah" Kakabutra

Close up view of a sculpture that includes many colorful scraps of thread, tulle, wooden and plastic beads, jewelry, and yarn that are encased and woven into silver chicken wire.

Tranesha Smith-Kilgore

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