Become a NIAD Artist

NIAD is currently accepting new Artists!

To learn more about becoming a NIAD Artist, send a message to NIAD’s Community Programs Director using the form below.

You can also contact your Regional Center Case Manager for more information.

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I feel like NIAD is the place to go. I feel like how everyone else feels.

NIAD artist Jean McElvane

Two people. arms raised, smile for the camera at the end of a runway with more models lined up behind them.

NIAD Artists in Community

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I like to go on Ocean’s field trips because we get to go in her car. I sit by the window – I see the birds, the water, the sky.

A close-up portrait photograph of a seated person. The person has brown skin, short black hair, and brown eyes. They are looking off into the distance toward the left. They are wearing a red and grey long sleeve shirt splattered with paint. The backdrop is a light purple wall.

NIAD Artist Shantae Robinson

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A group of people in a museum gallery. In the foreground there is a figure seated in a wheelchair, looking at the camera and wearing a bright red vest, purple pants, and a blue face mask. Behind them, a figure stands smiling at the camera, with long black hair and a blue sweatshirt. The wall to the left is hung salon style with colorful artworks made in every medium, arranged in a large grid. A group of people stand in the space, admiring the art.

NIAD artist Ann Meade and Facilitator Ocean Escalanti on a field trip to the Oakland Museum of California.

five people standing in a converted barn with rough wood floors and white vaulted ceilings. Round wave-like scraps of paper form an installation on the floor.

Margot Warnecke, NIAD artists Esme Silva and Cassara Wong, Community Programs Director Ember Avalos, and NIAD artist Jason Powell-Smith on a trip to Chalk Hill.

A photograph of a crowd of people sitting indoors. The focus of the image is a woman sitting in the foreground on the right: the artist Deatra Colbert. Deatra has brown skin and short black hair pulled into a bun. She wears glasses, a green sweatshirt, and black and white checkered pants. She holds a microphone. The people in the surrounding crowd are all wearing masks and looking at Deatra while she speaks. There is a projector screen on the wall in the background showing an image of the NIAD building.

NIAD artist Deatra Colbert at OMCA's first Into the Brightness curatorial meeting.

NIAD artist Cassara Wong talks with Cara Levine on a field trip to Levine's exhibition at the Contemporary Jewish Museum.

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NIAD artist Jean McElvane

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NIAD Artist Shantae Robinson

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