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7th Annual Creating Communities Conference: The Expanding Landscape of Art and Disabilities

The Creating Community Conference brings together artists and professionals from progressive art studios* across the United States and beyond, along with professionals active in disability arts, rights, and theory, to discuss best practices, advocacy, and the evolving landscape of art and disability. This annual event, a Creative Growth initiative launched in Oakland, CA in 2019, aims to foster dialogue and collaboration around the importance of inclusive creative spaces for artists with developmental disabilities and mental health differences. 

susan janow on view at the american folk art museum

Creative Growth artist Susan Janow is featured in Self-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists at the American Folk Art Museum, a major exhibition that challenges outdated narratives about self-taught artists. Self-Made centers sixty artists who have depicted and identified themselves on their own terms. Organized around self-portraits, alter egos, and autobiographies, the exhibition places artists' agency at the heart of interpretation. 

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