OUR STORY
Founded in 2002, Our programs are designed to help people reach their highest potential for creativity + to provide opportunities to showcase and sell their work
PAINT is a place filled with light and color,
where artists with Intellectual Disabilities may come to freely express their creativity through art. We provide a supportive and stimulating environment where our artists can express themselves creatively using a variety of media. Artists at PAINT communicate through their art. In expressing their thoughts, emotions, experiences, and cultures to their peers, instructors, patrons, and art lovers, they also engage with a broad and supportive community.
The goals of the PAINT program are to help
each person reach their highest level of artistic achievement and to encourage personal growth, self-reliance and self-esteem through the creative process. We are committed to supporting people with intellectual disabilities in their quest to become working artists, and to promoting their work as an emerging and increasingly important contribution to the contemporary art world. By professionally exhibiting and marketing the artwork that is produced at PAINT, the program instills feelings of pride and self-worth. At PAINT, art is a captivating means of challenging and transforming assumptions about disability. The beauty, depth and humor of the work provokes fresh perspectives and fosters new regard for the personal vision and artistic ability of artists with developmental disabilities.