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Creative Growth Art Center Broadway and 24 th , Oakland CA

Creative Growth Art Center Broadway and 24 th , Oakland CA. Andrea Bergen Art Education Research Project Fall 2011. Research Question: How can art educators use the arts to develop an appreciation for difference and/or bridge cultural divides?.

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Creative Growth Art Center Broadway and 24 th , Oakland CA

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  1. Creative Growth Art CenterBroadway and 24th, Oakland CA Andrea Bergen Art Education Research Project Fall 2011

  2. Research Question: How can art educators use the arts to develop an appreciation for difference and/or bridge cultural divides?

  3. Creative Growth Art Center serves adult artists with developmental, mental and physical disabilities, providing a professional studio environment for artistic development, gallery exhibition and representation and a social atmosphere among peers.

  4. If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is, but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.-Goethe

  5. Daniel Miller

  6. Dwight Mackintosh

  7. Donald Mitchell

  8. William Scott

  9. Judith Scott

  10. How can I be inclusive to people with disabilities in my art practice and as an art teacher? How can I emulate the uninhibited creativity and freshness of the Creative Growth students’ work in my art?How can I promote ways of understanding how a mentally disabled person thinks and views the world?

  11. UPCOMING EXHIBITION: Latitudes – Self Taught Artists from France & New Zealand, Opens October 7, 5-9pm. Creative Growth hosts an exhibition of self-taught artwork from France and New Zealand, exploring the phenomenon of the untrained artist and the widely celebrated, international current of creativity within this field.

  12. Jordan DeStaebler
Studio Manager/Volunteer Coordinator
510.836.2340 ext. 12
jordan@creativegrowth.org

  13. National Institute for Artists with Disabilities Art Center551 23rd Street
Richmond, CA 94804 Creativity Explored3245 16th Street (at Guerrero Street)San Francisco, CA 94103

  14. Sources Buuck, David. "‘Reality TV’ at Creative Growth Art Center." Artweek 36, no. 6 (July/August 2005): 13-14. Art Full Text, WilsonWeb (accessed October 4, 2011). Chun, Kimberly. "Disabled Artists Find Creativity Sells." San Francisco Chronicle, March 26, 1999. Feldman, Melissa E.. "Donald Mitchell at Creative Growth Art Center." Art in America 93, no. 10 (November 2005): 191. Art Full Text, WilsonWeb (accessed October 4, 2011). KQED. "Creative Growth Art Center: An Interview with Tom di Maria." July 2003. KQED SPARK. MOV. http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/spark/profile.jsp?essid=4308. MacGregor, John M. Metamorphosis: The Fiber Art of Judith Scott. Oakland: Creative Growth Art Center, 1999. Marech, Rona. "Accidental Artist unaware of prowess." San Francisco Chronicle, June 28, 2002. Nicole Jones, "Creative Growth provides an outlet for extraordinary artists," Oakland North (blog), May 19, 2011, http://oaklandnorth.net/2011/05/19/ creative-growth-provides-an-outlet-for-extraordinary-artists/. One is Adam One is Superman. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2004. Selna, Robert. "Disabled Artists Defy Conventional Wisdom." San Francisco Chronicle, May 24, 1999.

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