The selected works include NIAD and non-NIAD artists, and encapsulate the ebbs and flows during these vulnerable and emotionally fragile times, when the threat of illnesses and the effects of climate change are entangled in our everyday existence. Read More …
This exhibition features works created over the past five years by NIAD artist Nathan Lam. A survey of the artist’s practice, this collection includes works on paper that predate his time in the NIAD Studio. From charcoal still life drawings, to comic style illustrations branded with his signature “Lamic”, and generously applied acrylic paintings of mountains inspired by a summer trip to Alaska. We offer a look into the different ways Nathan Lam works. Read More …
Art is as much community as it is individual. We are shaped by those we love and those who love and have loved us. Love and community are intergenerationally woven into us all. Deatra Colbert and Maria Radilla’s work both speak to the ways in which we look to community as inspiration for voicing our own personal experience in this world. Read More …
About the exhibition It’s not a superbloom year. It’s not one of those years where the rain fall gives us an explosion of colorful flowers in the desert. But it is spring. There are still median strips full of poppies and untended lots full of lupines and purple vetch. There are bright yellow dandelions growing despite everything. There are the plum trees blossoming then letting loose their purple leaves and then the cherry trees blooming and letting loose their green leaves. These moments of color, of unexpected brightness, bring me so much happiness and ground me to the earth. I Read More …
About the exhibition More than fifty NIAD artists are featured in the WIN WIN 10 Silent Auction, currently open for bidding until the day of the live event. The Sneak Preview Exhibition is a salon-style installation that includes each and every piece of art included in the Silent Auction, hung closely together in a way that encourages conversations and highlights correspondences between each piece. The work in the exhibition represents the incredible breadth of art practices that NIAD artists maintain every day in the 23rd Street Studios. NIAD truly contains multitudes! NIAD’s Executive Director Amanda Eicher will be in the Read More …