Art Beyond Boundaries

This past week, I went on a field trip to Cincinnait's own Art Beyond Boundaries.  This organization owns a gallery that shows and sells work created by artists with varying disabilities.  The gallery can be found on 1410 Main Street in downtown Cincinnati and is wheelchair accessible.  The gallery space is small but open and inviting with walls filled with paintings, photography and sculptures.

We met and spoke with Mr. B, the man who runs the gallery with the help of his interns (there are about four or five) and two interns that were working at the time.  I was intrigued to hear Mr. B discuss the artists whose work he sells.  Each artist has a disability, he explained, and that there are many things that qualify as a disability--diabetes can even count as one.  What I found most interesting was that when an artist came to him with their work, he did not want to know about their disability, he said that this was not his priority--his priority was showing the art in the gallery and selling it.  I found myself feeling very appreciative of this organization and what it does for artists that can sometimes be overlooked in a community.

Below is the link to Art Beyond Boundaries website.

http://www.artbeyondboundaries.com/