?Now in its 12th year, the gallery offers an open, quiet space to about 30 local artists with a variety of intellectual or developmental disabilities that include but are not limited to Down Syndrome, Autism, Traumatic Brain Injury and Bipolar Disorder.
The artists come from all backgrounds and ethnicities and range in age from 21 to 78 years old.
Mary Liniger, Executive Director of Art Enables, said the purpose of the program is twofold; to represent and support our artists and then also to show the different ways that people who are marginalized can communicate through the visual arts.
Professional artists
The gallery provides the artists with professional materials, their own web page, and marketing support to help them succeed as professional artists. Our artists have at least 10 shows a year here as well as other shows throughout the city, she said, and whenever our artists sell a piece, whether its here in the gallery, off of our website or at one of their outside shows, they receive a 60 percent commission from those sales.
The artists work ranges from original, framed pieces to mugs, calendars and notecards depicting their work. They also receive numerous orders from around the world.
We have had buyers as far away as Germany, Japan, Australia, said Liniger. Last year we sold over $84,000 worth of artwork and our average piece is around $100.
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