NIAD is pleased to present a group exhibition curated by GGLA a contemporary art gallery in Los Angeles, California, run and founded by Andres Guerrero. Gallery Reception + Artist Talk // Saturday August 19, 1 to 4pm Read More …
Join this playful, colorful, and lively event celebrating films and fashion created by the superstar artists of the wildly popular current exhibition, Into the Brightness: Artists from Creativity Explored, Creative Growth & NIAD. Films showcasing vibrant textiles and wearable art from artists featured in the exhibition kick off the afternoon. Next up will be a live exhibition of fashions modeled by more than two dozen artists from these studios in an informal, salon-style presentation with music and fun! This program is part of OMCA’s Spotlight Sundays series that presents innovative and engaging programs the third Sunday of each month. Participating Read More …
NIAD is pleased to present a group exhibition curated by GGLA a contemporary art gallery in Los Angeles, California, run and founded by Andres Guerrero. Gallery Reception + Artist Talk // Saturday August 19, 1 to 4pm Read More …
Check out Billy White’s Picnic At Shine Los Angeles! Billy White loves picnics. For the artist, there is no better way to connect and celebrate almost anything than by gathering with family, friends and for Billy White, the childhood heroes that have inspired him as an artist. White repeatedly invites nostalgic icons such as Vincent van Gogh, Sallie Field, Eddie Murphy, Elvis, and Redd Foxx to make appearances in his art, and they are of course invited to his painted picnic, which is open to everyone. Picnics have interestingly become a pervasive theme in the drawings, paintings and sculptures created Read More …
Danny Thach: Best Buddies in the NIAD Annex Gallery About Danny Thach: Danny Thach is a versatile artist stylistically and materially. He practices primarily in printmaking, painting, ceramics and fiber art. Rather than having a specific chosen medium, Thach likes all materials equally. A meticulous draftsman, his process is precise and methodical. He shares that he works in pencil first and paint second when working on a canvas painting. Screen printing is a focal point for Thach’s attention to detail, a process he uses to create his handmade t-shirts. Thach has been a prolific artist since childhood and has used Read More …
In collaboration with three profound Bay Area institutions, Into the Brightness: Artists from Creativity Explored, Creative Growth & NIAD celebrates myriad works from contemporary artists with developmental disabilities. From painting to sculpture to multimedia, these world-renowned artists are producing work of incredible power, exuberance, humor, complexity, and joy. Read More …
Win Win, NIAD’s annual fundraiser and benefit auction, is around the corner! This year we’ll gather at NIAD on March 11 to celebrate our good fortune and our gratitude for the 40+ years of magic we have shared in NIAD’s studios. Our 23rd Street studio in Richmond will sparkle as we enjoy art, tacos, great live performances, cumbia cocktail hour, auctions and connecting with our community. Read More …
Art of the African Diaspora is the longest running event of its kind in the Bay Area. This year it brings together over 150 artists of African descent, showcasing their work at the Richmond Art Center, as well as in open studios and satellite exhibitions at thirty different venues across ten Bay Area cities. Read More …
NIAD’s Exhibitions Team has been loading up the Annex Storefront with seasonal items and unique gifts: quilts, coloring posters and books, baskets, monographs, wall hangings, ornaments, hats and scarves, ceramic animals and more. Read More …
Gallery Manager Julio Rodriguez and curators Terri Moore and Emma Spertus will be on hand with exhibiting NIAD artists and artists from Cedars of Marin for a live walkthrough of the November exhibitions.
ASL and captioning will be provided. Read More …
This show is all about comfort text: resilience in everyday words, writing and reading. Expression can also be wordless, the use of line and color as new vocabulary, pushing a thought out onto a surface, making marks and continuously trying to communicate with the world.
We tell stories to sustain ourselves and find each other. These messages embedded in art become an emotional telegram– a signal flare with a flame of memory trailing behind it. “Feeling Language” is about books, lists, slogans, language, gesture, touch and the trust given in sharing. Read More …
The selected works include NIAD and non-NIAD artists, and encapsulate the ebbs and flows during these vulnerable and emotionally fragile times, when the threat of illnesses and the effects of climate change are entangled in our everyday existence. Read More …
This exhibition features works created over the past five years by NIAD artist Nathan Lam. A survey of the artist’s practice, this collection includes works on paper that predate his time in the NIAD Studio. From charcoal still life drawings, to comic style illustrations branded with his signature “Lamic”, and generously applied acrylic paintings of mountains inspired by a summer trip to Alaska. We offer a look into the different ways Nathan Lam works. Read More …
Art is as much community as it is individual. We are shaped by those we love and those who love and have loved us. Love and community are intergenerationally woven into us all. Deatra Colbert and Maria Radilla’s work both speak to the ways in which we look to community as inspiration for voicing our own personal experience in this world. Read More …
March 3-26, 2022 About the exhibition Layers Upon Layers is a curated ceramics show in celebration of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) regional event, held in Sacramento from March 3-26, 2022. Local ceramicist Shenny Cruces serves as curator and coordinator. Please contact the gallery directly for purchase inquiries. Artists in the Exhibition Peter Harris Jennifer Brazelton Gary Carlos Shenny Cruces Tomoko Nakazato Tiffany Schmierer Shannon Sullivan Sharon Virtue