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YAI Arts will be hosting a virtual art show beginning on Tuesday, May 25. The exhibition will be featured on the program’s new webpage, giving art enthusiasts the chance to easily buy the artwork from artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD).
"2031 offers a kaleidoscopic glimpse into the sparkling futures hovering in our collective imagination,” said YAI Arts Studio Manager, Priscilla Frank. The show will be a curation of fantastical, apocalyptic, utopian artwork that embraces the unknown of tomorrow.
The past year left many at YAI Arts feeling frozen in time. “This period of stillness was an invitation to dream, to vision, to bring into being. Apartment walls gave way to potential worlds unrestricted by logic, realism, or quarantine,” said Frank.
Artists began working on the pieces in January after feeling the hopefulness of the election and hearing murmurings of the vaccine. “We were emerging from a period of isolation and thinking about what kind of world we want to return to and what kind of world we want to create," said Frank.
Larry Willoughby Jr., a YAI Artist from Queens, said he is looking forward to showing his work.
“I am so happy with my drawings and paintings because one day I want to become a famous artist,” Willoughby said. “I am lucky to be a talented person...everyone likes my painting, and it makes me feel proud.”
Anyone interested in viewing the show and purchasing the art can do so starting May 25 by visiting yaiarts.funraise.org.