Creativity Explored
Creativity Explored is a non-profit visual arts center where people with developmental disabilities can create, exhibit, and sell art. Their goal is to assist people with developmental disabilities to integrate into visual arts activities for the community.
Center history
Creativity Explored was founded in 1983 on the principle that all people have the ability to create and that visual arts is a means to self-growth. When you visit with your car rental San Francisco, you will find that people working are talented artists that are making a difference. The second studio here opened in 1995 to provide adults with severe disabilities an opportunity to create art. They currently have a number of programs available for the community, including studio arts programs, community arts program, guest artists program, and exhibitions. The center is mainly funded through fees paid by the Golden Gate Regional Center to purchase services. Some income comes from the sale of original art and art products such as t-shirts, note cards, books, DVDs, and other things. They also receive grants for specific initiatives. When you buy art, the profit is shared equally by the artist and Creativity Explored.
Visiting the center
Visitors are always welcome to Creativity Explored, but they do ask that you contact them if you are interested in an in-depth tour when you are here with your San Francisco car rental. There are currently about 125 studio artists that work here, some on a part time basis.
Plan your visit
Creativity Explored can be found at 3245 16th Street in San Francisco. The studio is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. The gallery is open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m.; Thursday from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m.; and Saturday from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m when you visit with your San Francisco rental car.
How to get here
When you plan on visiting with your rental car San Francisco, you will find Creativity Explored in the heart of San Francisco, so parking can be difficult here. It can be easier to take BART to the 16th Street Station, then walk two and a half blocks west on 16th Street. They are in a light-green colored building with banners on the south side of the street.
More San Francisco art
When you are here with your car rental San Francisco, you may also want to visit the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This museum was founded in 1935 and was the first museum on the west coast devoted to 20th century art. The museum has a permanent collection of art from Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Henri Matisse, and Frank Stauffacher. Every year, the museum hosts more than 20 exhibitions and hundreds of educational programs for the community. They are open Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m. until 5:45 p.m., Thursday from 11 a.m. until 8:45 p.m., and Friday through Sunday from 11 a.m. until 5:45 p.m. in the summer, from Memorial Day through Labor Day, they open at 10 a.m. daily, expect for Wednesdays when they are closed. Admission is $15 for adults, $9 for seniors and students, and free for kinds under 12. There is half price admission on Thursdays after 6 p.m. It is also free on the first Tuesday of each month.
When you visit with your San Francisco car rental, you will find Creativity Explored is a great place to see unknown artists, as well as help out a disadvantaged community of people. Creativity Explored has given people with developmental disabilities to express themselves through art. San Francisco has a great arts community to explore.
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