STURGEON BAY – A significant statewide art exhibit returns this week to the Miller Art Museum.
Opening Wednesday, “Creative Power” is a traveling exhibition of work by professional and amateur artists living in Wisconsin with disabilities. Thirty pieces in a variety of media – paintings, drawings, mixed media, three-dimensional art and framed poetry – will be seen in this show developed by Arts for All Wisconsin, a Madison-based nonprofit organization that has worked to expand the capabilities, confidence and quality of life for children and adults with disabilities through the arts since 1985.
Mike Lawler, director of development and storytelling for Arts for All Wisconsin, said several reasons are behind this juried exhibit, starting with providing the opportunity for people with disabilities in Wisconsin to use art to give expression to their feelings.
“There is so much, so many angles,” Lawler said. “The encouragement to express themselves through visual art is the first thing … putting their thoughts, their emotions on display for all to see.”