Empowering Voices
banner art by Z.
An Exhibit of Disabled and Neurodivergent Artists
curated by Tamara White
banner artwork by Z.
Tara is an autistic abstract artist from London.
Being non-verbal, her art serves as a form of expression, communication and freedom. Tara’s signature style uses bold, confident strokes and bright colours which are reflective of her loud, charismatic and joyful personality.
Her art has been featured on Google Arts & Culture, Big Issue Magazine, Dua Lipa’s Service95, across Times Square and the Tate Collective.
Break Free
Swirl
Visionaries + Voices is an inclusive arts organization located in Cincinnati, Ohio that provides creative, professional, and educational opportunities for adults with disabilities. The following artists are a part of V+V’s community.
Intricate line work and text characterize Robert Bolubasz’s drawings. Using pencil on paper to weave a network of intersections, Robert places the names of friends, family members, movies, music and objects he values at the cross roads of an imbroglio of jagged linear elements. This mesh, part territory, part mathematical equation, transforms into a personal map, a landscape of Robert’s preferences and relationships. Robert creates a terrain of his psychological territory. Robert repeatedly folds and unfolds the work, transforming it into object: worn and used, compartmentalized and revisited for revision in topography or as reference to nowhere.
Journey
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Dale Jackson creates unlikely associations and complex poetry with everyday materials. With a sharpie marker and colored poster board, he writes in a stream-of-consciousness style which becomes very direct visual poetry. Common motifs in the work include Motown, classic cars, the Beatles, and excerpts from his daily life. The combination and specifics of these elements create something humorous, timely, and humble.
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Koi
Andrew Hostick works from observation to paraphrase advertisements from various art magazines. Endorsements in Art in America or Artforum unfettered by content allow Andrew to focus on the image’s organization of objects and hue, allowing him, via emulation, to practice sophisticated use of composition and color theory. Choosing to work only with colored pencil on mat board, heavy-handed mark-making inscribes the surface and builds up a velvety sheen. He works and reworks the entire surface (even white on white) with nonpareil intensity.
Elizabeth Sonne is a sister, daughter and friend to many. She has long been a fan of art. She travels widely with her family, photographing art in local and global museums and galleries. She has also participated in many art courses, particularly through MoCA CT art programming, Marlene Myerson JCC Diverse Abilities Programming NYC, and Club203, a social organization for neurodiverse adults. As a result, she has turned to creating art for pleasure, stress relief and to gift to family and friends. She is exhibiting her art for the second time at MoCA CT in August 2025 in the Kaleidoscope II exhibit.
Repeat Eposide on B+S w/ Friends podcast.
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