Creativity Explored is a studio in San Francisco that partners with artists with developmental disabilities to celebrate and nurture the creative potential in all of us. Their artists have seen their work exhibited in museums, galleries, and art fairs in over 14 countries (and now SFMOMA!). Their San Francisco studios are the center of a thriving creative community where all are welcome.
A leading photographer of his generation, Richard Misrach’s (b. 1949) monumental color photographs depict the complex relationship between humans and the natural world. Misrach began his photographic practice in Berkeley, California in the early 1970s, compelled to capture images of the city’s anti-war protests. His focus soon turned to landscape, a subject he has explored for over 50 years. Misrach has trained his lens on vast deserts of the American West to probe the ecological effects of human intervention; the land surrounding the U.S.-Mexico border to engage the politics of migration; and sweeping aerial landscapes and beachscapes to illuminate the sublime, tremendous power of the ocean.