Diane Rosenstein Gallery is pleased to present Beautiful Peace On Earth, a group exhibition featuring 17 current and alumni artists from the Creative Growth Art Center, the oldest and largest studio and gallery program worldwide featuring artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Beautiful Peace on Earth is curated by Ginger Shulick Porcella and explores visual language as universal communication.

Beautiful Peace On Earth explores visual language as universal communication. Since 1974, Creative Growth, a non-profit studio space and gallery, has supported artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Their programming is guided by the principle that art is fundamental to human expression.

Opening July 15, 2023, the exhibition includes nearly 80 sculptures, paintings, video, and works on paper highlighting the depth and breadth of the work created in Creative Growth’s studio in Oakland, CA. Upon the eve of Creative Growth’s 50th Anniversary, this survey includes works by renowned artists who defy conventional boundaries such as Dan Miller, Dwight Macintosh, John Hiltunen, Nicole Storm, and William Scott. Emerging artist Nathaniel Jackson makes his gallery debut with a series of beautifully abstracted monsters rendered in watercolor, alongside Alice Wong’s haunting paintings on found photographs.

Artists exhibited are John Hiltunen, Nathaniel Jackson, Susan Janow, Franna Lusson, Dwight Mackintosh, John Martin, Dan Miller, Donald Mitchell, Latefa Noorzai, Tony Pedemonte, Barry Regan, William Scott, Nicole Storm, Monica Valentine, Ron Veasey, Alice Wong, and Ying Ge Zhou.

The exhibition will run through August 26, 2023, celebrated by a closing reception featuring a screening of artist Cheryl Dunn’s film “Beyond I Wanna Go,” documenting ten years of Creative Growth’s iconic “Beyond Trend” fashion show. Fashions designed by Creative Growth artists will be on display.