We spend today’s show with Amee Medeiros, the Executive Director of Neighborhood Center of the Arts, a nonprofit in Nevada City that supports people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to make and sell art. Amee tells us how Neighborhood Center has been supporting their artists remotely through the pandemic and shares her vision for the center going forward.
In non-pandemic times, Neighborhood Center of the Arts is a working studio for artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities. They offer classes and workshops in woodshop, ceramics, photography, weaving, mixed-media and visual arts, digital arts, and more. The mission of the program is to enable artists with disabilities to create and sell their art. 50% of the artwork sales goes to the artists themselves to supplement their income, and the other 50% goes back into running the center. In March of 2020, like so many other programs and nonprofits, Neighborhood Center of the Arts had to pivot and reorient in this time of the coronavirus pandemic, closing their physical doors for a time but continuing to support and create spaces for artists to make and sell their work. We’ve invited Amy back on Disability Rap to give us an update on the program and tell us where Neighborhood Center of the Arts is heading.
