Creative Growth Art CenterBroadway and 24th, Oakland CA

Andrea BergenArt 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?

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.

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

Daniel Miller

Dwight Mackintosh

Donald Mitchell

William Scott

Judith Scott

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?

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.

Jordan DeStaeblerStudio

Manager/Volunteer Coordinator

510.836.2340 ext. 12

jordan@creativegrowth.org

National Institute for Artists with Disabilities Art Center

551 23rd StreetRichmond, CA 94804

Creativity Explored3245 16th Street

(at Guerrero Street)San Francisco, CA 94103

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