Creativity Explored
Summer 2025
This summer Outer Space will be presenting works that we curated from Creativity Explored's extensive inventory. Creativity Explored is a San Francisco non-profit that partners with artists with developmental disabilities to celebrate and nurture the creative potential in all of us.
Creativity Explored was founded in San Francisco in 1983 by Florence and Elias Katz, an artist and a psychologist. Sparked by the nationwide deinstitutionalization of disabled people, the duo launched a movement that expanded defined notions of artistry when they founded three Bay Area organizations – Creativity Explored, Creative Growth, and NIAD (Nurturing Independence through Artistic Development.