Please Join Us on Friday, November 13!
Join us for our second annual Creative Spotlight™ exhibition on Friday, November 13, 2026, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at San Francisco’s vibrant Minnesota Street Project.
Presented by AbilityPath, Futures Explored, and Helpers Community Inc, this multi-studio collective exhibition showcases talented Bay Area artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). Join arts leaders, collectors, and advocates for an evening centered on access, representation, and belonging.
The event will feature incredible contemporary artwork, opportunities to meet the artists, and remarks from featured guest speaker Antonia Dapena-Tretter, Art Curator at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.
PLEASE RSVP HERE: https://tinyurl.com/
Art has the power to move you, to challenge the way you see the world, and to make you feel something you’ve never felt before.
AbilityPath, Futures Explored, and Helpers Community Inc established Creative Spotlight™, An Art Collective for Change, to showcase artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) from across the Bay Area. The collective explores how greater access, visibility, and representation can strengthen and transform the arts community.
This is the kind of art that changes lives—and we believe it should be within everyone’s reach. Some of the most powerful art is created by adults with I/DD, yet many people have limited access to it. This art deserves to be seen, celebrated, and experienced everywhere.
Imagine this work becoming a regular fixture in galleries, museums, and public spaces. We need more than small steps—we need a movement that puts this art front and center. That’s why Creative Spotlight™ exists: to build on the work already underway and ensure these artists’ work can be seen, felt, and valued by everyone.
These voices belong everywhere. If you believe art should reach everyone, join us in advancing this movement for greater access, representation, and change.