Creativity-Ability
Creativity-Ability explores creative practice, facilitation, and the development of artistic practices within progressive art studios — spaces where adults with developmental disabilities are supported in developing sustained, self-directed art practices.
Grounded in practice, research, and writing, the work considers the facilitation of creativity: how creative practices develop, how discovery can be supported without determining its outcome, and what the studio can teach us about creativity as a way of knowing.
What C-A Makes Possible
Creativity-Ability strengthens the ability to recognize, articulate, and respond to creative development.
This language can help practitioners:
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recognize creative development as it happens and identify opportunities for growth without prescribing outcomes;
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make more intentional decisions about when to offer direction, introduce possibility, or simply make space for time;
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communicate more clearly with others about creative practice;
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cultivate sustained, ambitious artistic practices.
The aim is to make the often difficult-to-articulate processes of creative development more visible and actionable — strengthening the ability to recognize possibility and respond in ways that create more of it.
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