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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:7th Annual Creating Community Conference
DESCRIPTION:Note: The Institute for the Humanities will cover the registration fee for U-M faculty (all campuses) who want to attend one or all three days of the conference. Please submit the receipt for reimbursement to humin@umich.edu for processing.\n\nHeld October 5-8\, 2026\, the Creating Community Conference brings together artists and professionals from progressive art studios* across the United States and beyond\, along with professionals active in disability arts\, rights\, and theory\, to discuss best practices\, advocacy\, and the evolving landscape of art and disability. This annual event\, a Creative Growth initiative launched in Oakland\, CA in 2019\, aims to foster dialogue and collaboration around the importance of inclusive creative spaces for artists with developmental disabilities and mental health differences.\n\nThis year's conference will be hosted in Detroit and Ann Arbor Michigan\, and is locally organized and led by the Progressive Art Studio Collective (PASC)\, with support from the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities\, and Library Street Collective. National administration and strategic support is being provided by Creative Growth\, in collaboration with the Progressive Art Studio Alliance (PASA).\n\nCCC7 invites both internal (studio staff and artists) and external (general public) audiences to engage with the art and practice of progressive art studios. The conference covers a range of topics from hands-on studio practice\, exhibiting\, collecting and representing artists with disabilities\, self-taught art\, outsider art\, disability studies\, mental-health\, radical pedagogy and more\, expanding the conversation on platforming the creative production of marginalized communities\, opening up the art world to disabled artists\, and the transformative power of art.\n\nTuesday\, October 6\, 2026: First Full Conference Day\nLocation: The Shepherd\, 1265 Parkview St\, Detroit\, MI 48214\n\n9:00-9:10AM: Opening Remarks\, Go over symposium schedule\n9:10-10:30AM: Icebreaker\n10:30-11:15AM: New Studio Presentations: How We Got Here     \n11:15-11:30AM: Break\n11:30AM-12:15PM: ABLE\, Trusts and Managing Funding for Artists with Disabilities\n12:15-1:00PM: Lunch (provided)\n1:00-1:30PM: Blackness and Disability: Intersections and Insights.\n1:30-2:00PM: Studio Facilitation Presentation 1: Somewhere Between Knowing and Not Knowing. Facilitating Conditions for Creativity.\n2:00-2:30PM: Studio Facilitation Presentation 3: Building Community with Disability Drawing Club\n2:30-2:45PM: Break\n2:45-3:15PM: Studio Facilitation Presentation 4: Tools of the Trade: Adaptive Practices and Creative Community\n3:15-3:45PM: Finding Connection Through Art: Independent Learning\, Mixed Media\, and Neurodiverse Creativity\n3:45-4:15PM: History in the Making: Academic Partnerships with Progressive Art Studios\n4:20-4:50PM: TBD Drawing Workshop\n6:30-9:00PM: PAS Short Film night. films by artists from PAS  (Open to the General Public)\n\nView the full schedule and register at https://myumi.ch/qwVRX.
UID:149751-21907055@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149751
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies,Humanities,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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