upcoming exhibitions

Creativity Explored Part II

August 1st - September 6th 2025

This August Outer Space will be presenting Part II of 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.

We will feature pieces by Daniel Green, Joeseph Green, Michael Washington, John Patrick McKenzie, and Ana Marie Vidalon.

MICHEAL WASHINGTON Untitled, 2025. paint pen on paper. 12 x 10.75 inches

ANA MARIE VIDALON Untitled, 2020. mixed media on mat board. 16 x 20 inches

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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.

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