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Beyond Trend 2026: MAY 30 2026

Mark your Calendars! Creative Growth’s signature, Beyond Trend community event and fundraiser is back. The event features a celebratory fashion show highlighting wearable art created and modeled by Creative Growth artists. For VIP attendees the event will also feature a delicious dinner by 20 of the Bay Area's most celebrated chefs, and a performances by Grammy Award winning, Fantastic Negrito.

DATE: Saturday, May 30, 2026

LOCATION: Ciel Creative Space, 935 Carleton Street, Berkeley CA

SUNNY A. SMITH Honored by Eames Institute

We’re proud to share that Sunny A. Smith, Executive Director and CEO of Creative Growth, has been named to the 2026 Curious 100 by the Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity. Sunny is recognized in the category Explorers: Traveling Beyond Boundaries. The Curious 100 honors one hundred individuals across the U.S. who are using curiosity as a force for connection, creativity, and change. Presented by the Eames Institute, the list continues the legacy of Ray and Charles Eames, celebrating those who approach complex challenges with openness, experimentation, and imagination. We’re honored to see Sunny’s work and leadership recognized in this way.

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in Self-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists at the American Folk Art Museum, a major exhibition that challenges outdated narratives about self-taught artists.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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