It was incredible to connect with so many colleagues from the art and disability field during our symposium on ADVANCING OUR COMMUNITIES! We had people from 20 states across the country (including Alaska!), as well as from Australia, New Zealand, France, Canada, and the UK, participate in our virtual sessions to help support one another in this field. We also welcomed over 85 new participants for our first ever day-long program on how to start a program like Creative Growth in your own community. We hope that this will help generate great new creative opportunities for people with disabilities around the world!

Thanks to everyone who presented, including:

• SAGE Studio

• NIAD Art Center

• Creativity Explored 

• Tierra del Sol

• UCPLA

• Summertime

• ECF Art Centers 

• Arts of Life

• DisArt (My Dearest Friend)

• Joseph Dobson — Ted Talks

• Shannon Finnegan

• Art + Action

• Center for Creative Works 

• Visionaries and Voices 

• Mary Fashik

• Tiara Simmons Mercius

• Matthew Higgs — White Columns

• Tom di Maria and Creative Growth staff