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A still from the opening credits of the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Easter Yeggs" - a cartoon of colored eggs in a basket with the letters E A S T E R Y E G G S drawn on each of them.

Jean McElvane’s Top 20 Easter Favorites

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NIAD artist Jean McElvane serves up another seasonal playlist! Jean says: Happy Easter, everyone. Top 20 favorites for Easter coming up.​ Enjoy. 1🐰 – (Easter Yeggs) 2🐰 – (I Want It Now) 3🐰 – (Veruca Salt Oompa Loompa Song) 4🐰 – (Veruca Salt Oompa Loompa Song in Reverse) 5🐰 – (A Family Circus Easter) 6🐰 – (M&M Easter Bunny Commercial 1) – 2 versions, this one I remember as a kid ‘cuz of the music. I hope it never goes away. 6🐰 – (M&M Easter Bunny Commercial 2) – This one has children singing in the background 7🐰 – (Cadbury Read More …

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Donzell Lewis and Jean McElvane at Summer Of Joy Marketplace // OMCA

Celebrate the summer season and join us for a festive marketplace featuring artwork produced by artists from the three collaborating studios of Into the Brightness: Artists from  Creativity Explored, Creative Growth and NIAD.  Support the studios and shop for dazzling prints, ceramics, zines, textiles, buttons, trinkets, jewelry, etc for yourself or as gifts. Artists will showcase existing work and may also create new pieces for sale inspired by the theme of summer and the joy of being together. Artist vendors include Donald Gruneisen, Donzell Lewis, Jean McElvane, Larry Randolph, Lulu Sotelo, and Gerald Wiggins. Come say hello! Read More …

an image of a pixellated palm tree and beach scene next to text from Spotify: Playlist. Break Tune Favorites. "Here are the top 10 'Break' Tune Favorites. At least for now. The idea for this playlist is about taking some time off, whenever is needed..." - NIAD Studio Artist Jean McElvane 10 songs, 45 min 53 sec

Break Tune Favorites playlist by Jean McElvane

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It’s time for the latest playlist from NIAD Studio Artist Jean McElvane! She has this to say about her latest collection: Hello, & welcome to this next occasion starting this month. Here are the top 10 “Break” Tune Favorites.  At least for now. The idea for this playlist is about taking some time off, whenever is needed.   Though, once again, this Jean is taking another one-week off for her birthday (like I do every year), just this first week (8-4-1973 – 4:11 am – Leo), I’m just staying put, & taking it easy at where I am & while turning 48 Read More …

Online Exhibition: Favorite Recycled Nature, Selected By Jean McElvane//

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View it. About the exhibition My art is my children. I make what I like and share it with the world. With projects I make in detail, I look at what’s in front of me. Anything I’ve made in the past has been improved over the years through studies. Whenever I make something, I always keep an exact few samples for myself. Sometimes I wear them for display, like a human tree, and/or have them displayed where I work. I also keep samples of a work-in-progress in progressive steps from start to finish. Hoping to have answers for questions posed Read More …

Interesting Viewing: Our Jean McElvane Rounds Up The Best of Traveling And Military Serving Animate Shorts//

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There are many ways and reasons you can travel and not just for vacation. NIAD artist Jean McElvane returns to our blog with another timely post. This one is a Top 20 of videos featuring travel and military service. She says, “The idea for this email came from moving one place to another.  Starting off to Pismo Beach, (aka Pepto Bismo Beach).” And Jean has gathered up the hilarity (much of it from the classic Warner Brothers’ Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes) on many forms of travel and the branches of the service: plane, rocket, naval ship, tunneling and even Read More …

Interesting Viewing: Our Jean McElvane Rounds Up The Best Summer Songs//

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Hey! It’s summertime. It’s hard to believe after sheltering-in-lace for nearly 100 days, but as NIAD artist Jean McElvane says, “It’s music time again for it’s now the first day of summer. At the moment, here’s a top 25, and some of them also have long versions (which are included as bonus choices).” Enjoy. And remember please apply sunblock liberally (should you step outside.)

Interesting Viewing: NIAD’s Jean McElvane Selects Some California Favorites//

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Jean, a resident of Richmond (born and raised), explains this week’s selections, “Here are some musical tunes featuring the state of California, just ‘cuz it’s home to me, though I’ve been to about over ten cities of my life, the farthest cities I’ve been in California are Santa Clara, Sacramento & Millbrae (on BART), and never been anywhere out of California either.” Here’s her Top Ten of Golden State songs… And her Top Ten, California City Tunes (or a few mention in the lyrics)…

an abstract, geometric drawing, divided into four sections with arched shapes drawn in a rainbow of colors.

Carlos Fernandez

While embracing a strong sense of the handmade, Carlos Fernandez’s paintings and drawings draw on the history of geometric abstraction as well as recent formalism. // Carlos’s available work // exhibition history Roses are Red, or, See what Kitty can do without fighting the war? organized by Liam Golden // NIAD Online Exhibition // August 2023 Small Wonders, organized by kg // NIAD Online Exhibition // July 2023 The Shape We’re in Feels Like the Colors of Hope, organized by Cynthia Branvall // NIAD Online Exhibition // May 2023 Blow Like Magic In Their Face And Vanish organized by James Sterling Read More …

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“Follow The String” at Marin MOCA

Curated by NIAD’s Emma Spertus and Julio Rodriguez with NIAD artists Felicia Griffin, Dorian Reid, and Kiesha White, the exhibition features artists from Cedars and NIAD, alongside artists from the broader Bay Area arts community. Follow the String showcases conventionally trained artists alongside artists with disabilities, blurring distinctions between “insider” and “outsider” art. Read More …

Two NIAD artists, Shawna clapping on the left and Esme with the microphone on the right, attend SFMOMA mini murals

Informe anual del Centro de Arte NIAD 2021/2022

Nuestra misiónNIAD promueve la expresión creativa, la independencia, la dignidad y la integración comunitaria para y con personas con discapacidades. “Tanto en NIAD como en virtual, me inspiran los demás todo el tiempo. Por su creatividad, y uso del color. Todos me ayudan a inspirarme para crear nuevos proyectos a lo largo de la semana. Los maestros son muy pacientes y ayudan apoyando estos sueños. Los estudiantes también me ayudan, cuando mi mente está en blanco, con nuevas ideas para crear“. Sam K – Artista de NIAD De Amanda Eicher, Directora Ejecutiva del Centro de Arte NIAD En sus 40 Read More …