2018 Highlights

Let’s take a look at what we have accomplished in 2018. Thank you to everyone who helped make this an exceptional year!

Nicole Storm with Installation, AN OTHER LIFE, January 25 – March 2, 2018

EXHIBITIONS

• An Other Life

• Everyone

• Home Show

• Chroma Key

• The Collage Party 3

• For Now For Magical Power

• Matters At Hand

• Holiday Show: Attention People! Look What Amazes You Before Your Eyes

JOHN MARTIN’S TOOLBOX, Institute 193 (1B), November 10, 2018 – January 1, 2019

OUTSIDE EXHIBITIONS

• Dan Miller, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York

• Touchdown, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland

• Outliers and American Vanguard Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

• Odradek, Malmo Konsthalle, Malmo, Sweden

• Butteryfly’s Nautilus, CONDO with Et al., Mexico City

• Sheer Fantasy, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Australia

• Woman Outsider, Musée Visionnaire, Zurich, Switzerland

• Disability Awareness Month Artist Showcase, UC Berkeley

• Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo, ONCE Foundation, Madrid, Spain

• Soft Bytes Animation Festival, Los Angeles

• We Rise, Los Angeles

• Visual Oasis: Work from Creative Growth, Capital City Arts Initiative, Carson City, NV

• Creative Growth Film Screening, The New Parkway, Oakland

• Something (you can’t see, on the other side, of a wall from this side) casts a shadow SOMArts, San Francisco

• Women in Art Brut?, Art et Marges, Brussels

• Art is for Everyone : Outsider Art, Telegraph Hill Gallery, San Francisco

• Issue 3: A Group Show with Creative Growth, The Good Luck Gallery, Los Angeles

• RE/Configurations: Art, Disability, Identity, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, New York

• Outliers and American Vanguard Art, LACMA, Los Angeles

• The Other Film Festival, Melbourne

• Process and Presence: Contemporary Disability Sculpture, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park | with DisArt Grand Rapids, MI

• John Martin’s Toolbox, Institute 193 (1B), New York

NADA Miami Booth, Featuring John Mullins & Dan Miller, December 2018

ART FAIRS

• Untitled Art Fair, San Francisco

• Outsider Art Fair, New York

• NADA New York

• D’Dessin Paris

• SF Art Book Fair

• Outsider Art Fair, Paris

• NADA Miami

Latefa Noorzai Spread in Creative Growth Magazine: Issue 3, Released September 2018

RELEASES

• William Scott: Painting Utopia

• Creative Growth Magazine Issue 3

William Scott with Billboard in San Francisco, For Freedoms Project, November 2018

PARTNERSHIPS

• Stevie Howell

• Tune-Yards

• Method

• David Byrne, Hank Willis Thomas, Imprint City, and For Freedoms

• Mixbook

Fabric Marker Jam at BAMPFA, February 9, 2018

EVENTS

• Beyond Trend

• Fabric Marker Jam with Chulita Vinyl Club and BAMPFA, Berkeley

• Creative Growth Rug Workshop, Cooper Hewitt, New York

• Tony Pedemonte Installation and CG Magazine Talk, Aesop, San Francisco

• Art Beyond the Glass, Oakland

• Days of the Dead Festival at Oakland Museum of California

• Creative Growth Textile Lab, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, SF

More or Less Magazine Feature on Creative Growth Textiles, June 2018

PRESS

• SF Chronicle

• Forbes

• Frieze

• Hyperallergic

• More or Less Magazine

• Art 21 Magazine

• Pin-Up

• CNN’s Great Big Story

• Honestly WTF

• Art21 on PBS

• Reasons To Be Cheerful

• Ace Hotel Blog