Program Announcements

As Arts of Life continues to innovate and expand, I wanted to share how our mission is working in the broader community.  Four years ago, our forced pandemic closure made us realize that our community could work in settings outside of our brick and mortar studios. We also saw a large number of artists not […]

As we transition into the new year, we want to pause and reflect on 2023. It was an extraordinary year, even by Arts of Life standards. Our artists reached numerous career milestones. Our Partners joined us in dreaming big, making major investments in our current and future artists. We continued to think ever more progressively

Building on the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) work of previous years, this year, Arts of Life looked inward at how we can continue to support our team’s diversity and bring more people into this critical work. As committed as we have been to IDEA, we were still falling short of permeating the whole

Laurie Williams is a trailblazer. She’s a supporter of Arts of Life, and the founder of the Collaborative Community Housing Initiative (CCHI) – a movement working to reshape the landscape of housing for people with disabilities on the North Shore. The idea for CCHI began halfway across the globe at Kishorit, a vibrant Kibbutz community in Israel

A major milestone in Arts of Life’s history arrived as 2020 came to a close. From November 12 to December 30, our artists’ work was projected on Art on the MART – the world’s largest permanent digital art projection. City Circle Heart Our projection – City Circle Heart knitted together colorful, abstract images by five studio artists

The Art Center Highland Park and Arts of Life have joined forces with a shared mission to reshape the landscape of art and inclusivity on the North Shore. This partnership symbolizes the potential of collective efforts in creating community-integrated opportunities for individuals with disabilities. We had the privilege of speaking with James Lynch, the visionary

Arts of Life continues our commitment to inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility. We have much to share about the work we’ve been doing over the past year. We have focused on continued education, partnerships with IDEA specialists; internal audits, analysis, and improvements; and alignment with our partners.     EDUCATION: Arts of Life was proud to continue

“I enjoyed working at the Kohler [Arts Center]. I was able to have people come and visit and see what I do. We talked about my artwork. It was a different atmosphere. There were windows and a lot of natural light. I made different designs. It was fun.” – Tim Stone On November 5-6, 2022,

Although Arts of Life has always championed equity, inclusion, and accessibility for our artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD), the events of the summer of 2020 put a spotlight on the work we still needed to do to expand these values within Arts of Life. We need to talk seriously about the lack of