Tag along with Access / Disability Services to visit Creativity Explored's current exhibition: Flower Power

We will meet at the Main Building entrance and take the Muni 22 bus over to the exhibition. Feel free to meet us there or check out the exhibition on your own! 

"Flower Power is Elana Cooper’s first solo exhibition at Creativity Explored. It’s a fitting title for an artist who has made a lot out of her love of flowers. The term “flower power” was coined by Allen Ginsberg during the anti-war movement in the ‘60s. Ginsberg encouraged protestors to bring masses of flowers to the front lines as a visual spectacle and hand them out to everyone. 

In a similar vein, Elana disarms the viewer with her whimsical yet serious flower portraits, which exude a graphic visual power.  Her monochromatic works are bold and direct.  This work, like Elana, has so much personality.  Her artwork pays tribute to her subjects in a personal way, capturing the shape and essence of each flower that she paints.  The way a stem bends awkwardly across the paper, or the way she stacks different flower and leaf shapes on top of each other, shows us what draws her attention.  There is a tenderness and humanity in her flowers that brings the viewer in." 

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. Access / Disability Services is excited to highlight this wonderful Bay Area organization as part of Disability is Diversity Week 2024.