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Creative Growth Art Center Broadway and 24 th , Oakland CA. Andrea Bergen Art Education Research Project Fall 2011. Research Question: How can art educators use the arts to develop an appreciation for difference and/or bridge cultural divides?. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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  • Creative Growth Art CenterBroadway and 24th, Oakland CAAndrea BergenArt Education Research ProjectFall 2011

  • Research Question:How can art educators use the arts to develop an appreciation for difference and/or bridge cultural divides?

  • Creative Growth Art Center serves adult artists with developmental, mental and physical disabilities, providing a professional studio environment for artistic development, gallery exhibition and representation and a social atmosphere among peers.

  • If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is, but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.-Goethe

  • Daniel Miller

  • Dwight Mackintosh

  • Donald Mitchell

  • William Scott

  • Judith Scott

  • How can I be inclusive to people with disabilities in my art practice and as an art teacher?

    How can I emulate the uninhibited creativity and freshness of the Creative Growth students work in my art? How can I promote ways of understanding how a mentally disabled person thinks and views the world?

  • UPCOMING EXHIBITION: Latitudes Self Taught Artists from France & New Zealand, Opens October 7, 5-9pm.Creative Growth hosts an exhibition of self-taught artwork from France and New Zealand, exploring the phenomenon of the untrained artist and the widely celebrated, international current of creativity within this field.

  • Jordan DeStaeblerStudio Manager/Volunteer Coordinator510.836.2340 ext. [email protected]

  • National Institute for Artists with Disabilities Art Center551 23rd StreetRichmond, CA 94804Creativity Explored 3245 16th Street (at Guerrero Street) San Francisco, CA 94103

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