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NIAD Art Center

Redefining contemporary art.

Each NIAD artwork is an original piece of contemporary art that tells an individual story from the perspective of an artist with disabilities. Frequently remarkable, surprising, and engaging, NIAD artwork has become a highlight of the Richmond art scene and has received recognition from the national art community.

06/11/2026

NIAD’s first Summer Solstice Sale EVER is this Saturday ☀️

We’re pulling hundreds of original works by NIAD artists straight from the studio: rare pieces, hidden gems, and work that’s never been exhibited or sold online. Paintings, ceramics, jewelry, prints, clothing, home goods — priced at $5, $10, $25, and beyond.

One-day prices you won’t see again all year. Come early for the best selection!

Summer Solstice Sale
Saturday, June 13 from 1–4 PM
NIAD Art Center
551 23rd St, Richmond
Free to attend + open to the public

Image Descriptions:
Photos 1-3 by RJ Mickelson (RJ Mickelson)
1. A smiling visitor points at a wall covered in small, colorful paintings at NIAD’s Win Win 13 event.
2. A shopper holds up a hand-printed t-shirt above a table piled with colorful shirts.
3. Five people browse tables stacked with hand-printed t-shirts inside the NIAD studio.
4. A volunteer pouring a drink while a smiling person is waiting at a drink table in NIAD’s courtyard.

06/02/2026

We’re hoping to make this Solstice Sale extra special, and we need your help to make it happen! 🌞

Sign up to volunteer on June 13th, or another one of our future events. Your help setting up the gallery and studio, serving refreshments, and supporting our sales staff makes a huge difference in hosting a fun and functional event.

Visit the link in our bio to volunteer or to learn more about our Solstice Sale!

Summer Solstice Sale
NIAD Art Center
551 23rd St, Richmond, CA
Saturday, June 13, 2026 from 1–4 PM
Open to the public

Image Description:
A graphic on a dark green background with five teal squares showing NIAD artworks: a painted yellow sun, a green graphic t-shirt, a yellow and red ceramic ladybug, a tote bag with a screenprinted duck on it, and a shiny, green hummingbird sculpture. The text reads: “Volunteers Needed! Solstice Sale, NIAD Art Center – Richmond, CA, Saturday, June 13, 2026. Support NIAD during our biggest sale of the year.”

06/01/2026

We’re collaborating with Koak () for the latest edition of our Artist Selects series. Koak is a Californian artist whose paintings, drawings, and sculptures explore the psychology of life, death, and desire.

Artist Selects is a series where we invite artists outside the organization to choose works to feature from NIAD’s collection.

Image Descriptions:

1. Image by Koak courtesy of the artist and Jessica Silverman Gallery—Artist Selects graphic of Koak. A blonde person in a blue and white gingham dress stands in an art studio, surrounded by large figurative drawings and sculptures. The text reads: “Koak is a Californian artist whose paintings, drawings, and sculptures explore the psychology of life, death, and desire.”

2. Richard Naranjo, Untitled, 2023—A watercolor landscape of a white house on a horizon line with a tall brown form rising behind it. The text reads: “I always lean towards paintings that give me more questions than answers. I can find so many strange doorways I want to open in the landscape that surrounds this house.”

3. Nathan Lam, The Golden Gate Bridge & Sunset, 2025—A painting of the Golden Gate Bridge against an orange and black sky. The text reads: “It’s not the postcard bridge that saturates our imagination. It’s enmeshed in the orange sky, in the black clouds. It’s lodged in reality.”

4. Jason Powell-Smith, Sadness, 2024—The word “Sadness” painted in blue across a black background. The text reads: “The best part of art is when a few immediate lines can wrap their arms around the weight of what you’re carrying for the world.”

5. Dorian Reid, Demon Black Beauty, 2024—A black ceramic sculpture of a cat with textured fur and paws. The text reads: “It’s the toes, sweet little toes stretched out and spreading while it sits. I feel like I know the expression on this cat’s face from something in my childhood, and it makes me endlessly happy.”

6. Hacer Acma, Woman in a Dress, 2025—A green pencil drawing colored in with dense texture with a figure in negative space. The text reads: “The dress becomes a block of light texture that forms a panel around her...I love how much she’s defined by being absent.”

05/26/2026

This month’s drop is here! 25 new and unique pieces are now available online. Our latest release of works online includes a mix of portrait paintings, landscape drawings, ceramic sculptures, text-based prints, and more, all created in our Richmond studio. Every purchase supports the artist directly and helps sustain the creative community where the artworks are created.

Visit the link in our bio to browse the latest works.

Image and Artwork Descriptions:
1. Hacer Acma, Hacer and Raquel, 2026 (D1961)—This is an expressive watercolor-style painting of two figures seated together against a vivid blue background. One figure in pale green clothing leans forward with a thoughtful expression, while the other, dressed in orange and pink with dark hair, rests an arm around them. Thick black outlines and fluid brushstrokes create a loose, emotional composition with bold contrasts of blue, turquoise, orange, and pink.

2. Esmeralda Silva, Untitled [Landscape], 2025 (D8149)—A drawing of a small pizza restaurant at night with a purple car parked in front. The building has a striped awning, a sign reading “PIZZA” topped with a slice of pizza illustration, and glowing blue windows. Trees surround the scene under a dark sky, and the artwork uses muted purples, greens, and browns.

3. Rakelle Burnett, Untitled [Barn], 2025 (S1086)—This is a ceramic sculpture of a house, glazed with vibrant hues of red and beige. The details of the house such as the windows and the doors are carved into the clay.

4. Rebecca Jantzen, The Famous Kick [Chuck Norris],2026 (D1780)—This is a linocut print on paper with black ink. The image printed depicts a figure kicking out one leg. The figure is wearing a western outfit, including a cowboy hat, a button down and a belt. In the background is a mountain scene, with the sun in the top right corner.

05/25/2026

Don’t miss our Summer Solstice Sale in our sunny courtyard on Saturday, June 13, 2026!

Visit our link in bio to RSVP for free 🌞

We’re pulling hundreds of never-before-seen works and hidden gems that haven’t been inventoried or exhibited. Browse tables stacked with artwork, t-shirts, bags, mugs, priced at just $5, $10, $25, and beyond—special one-day prices you won’t see again all year.

Image Descriptions:

1. A dark green poster with yellow text reads: “Solstice Sale. NIAD Art Center Courtyard. Saturday, June 13, 2026.” Surrounded by red starbursts that read “Original Artwork!” and “Real Deals!”, along with images of a ceramic turtle-rhino sculpture and a painted figure with wild hair. The bottom text reads: “Browse tables stacked with artwork, t-shirts, bags, mugs, priced at just $5, $10, $25, and beyond.”

2. Five people gathered against a purple wall outside NIAD, smiling at the camera, one kneeling in front while the others sit close together on a bench.

3. Four people smiling in NIAD’s courtyard in front of a rose bush, three seated on a wooden bench throwing up peace signs with their hands while one stands behind making bunny ears.

4. Two people sitting close together against a purple wall outside NIAD, leaning their heads in toward each other and smiling in the sun.

05/21/2026

Our current exhibition, “Convergence,” brings together 45 NIAD artists and staff members, each with their distinct practices, from painting, printmaking, sculpture, fiber, performance, and sound art. Visit our Main Gallery to see the presentation before it closes on June 26, 2026.

Image Descriptions:

1-5: Installation View, Convergence, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA, 2026. Photos by Camila de Andrade Bianchi ()—Images of 45 artworks displayed at NIAD’s gallery space. Colorful paintings, prints, and textiles hang on white walls, while several sculptures are displayed on white podiums across the light brown wooden floors of the gallery.

05/12/2026

We are so grateful for our partnership with San Francisco State University's Exhibition Design Class for our latest virtual exhibition, "When I Hear the News I Want To..."

View the entire exhibition: https://niadart.org/collections/when-i-hear-the-news-i-want-to-curated-by-sfsu-2026

As part of the SFSU class's curriculum exploring curation, students began by developing their own exhibitions using NIAD's extensive online inventory. Throughout this curatorial exhibition project, SFSU students demonstrate the variety of ways they seek comfort through a complicated and often distressing present. Their concepts explored a range of themes, from cultivating a sense of belonging through community to empowerment through transformation, from finding comfort in childlike play to experiencing renewal through time spent in nature.

Image Description
1. San Francisco State University's Exhibition Design Class, a group of approximately eighteen people, pose together in two rows in front of a large white wall in a gallery space with wood floors.

05/07/2026

In our Annex Gallery, Dorian Reid is sharing her vision for “We Are Creating Our Own Histories!,” a cut-metal mural on our 23rd Street facade. In her words: “I think about the sound of water. If we had a new public space for art, it could be some kind of music, to keep the hostility down and lift up more music.” The vision for this project has taken shape over two years of community workshops and collaborations.

This is what your support makes possible. Be part of the chapter our artists are writing next. Your contribution sustains the studio, the artists, and visions like this alive within our Richmond studio and far beyond.

Donate through the link in our bio.

Join us Saturday, May 9, 1–4 PM, for the celebration of “We Are Creating Our Own Histories!” at NIAD Annex Gallery.

Image and Artwork Descriptions:
1. Dorian Reid sits in a chair at NIAD studio smiling and holding up a hand-lettered sign that reads “My Own Black History in Cats,” with a drawing of a cat figure in the center.

2. Deatra Colbert, Untitled [Figures, Water, Waves, and Music Notes], 2025 () –This black ink drawing depicts a creature in the top right corner and music notes on the bottom of of the piece. There are also organic, wave-like elements that divide the work horizontally.

3. Kate Laster, Untitled [All Beings Are Connected], 2025 (.moondog)–This black ink drawing against a white paper is a combination of animals and text. The text includes ‘All beings are connected,’ ‘animals tell story’, ‘all cats are connected,’ ‘moon dog sun cat’, and ‘dogs singing cats listen.’

4. Architectural models by Object Projects (). The NIAD building sits on a worktable, its facade wrapped in panels printed with black drawings by NIAD artists; behind it, 2D renderings of “We Are Creating Our Own Histories!” are pinned to the wall.

5. Photo by Jam (.a__a.m –Dorian Reid sits in a chair at NIAD studio grinning and holding up a sign lettered in pastel colors that reads “breaking free.”

04/02/2026

NIAD is excited to present the works of Donzell Lewis and Ember Avalos for “Convergence.” In this group exhibition, 45 NIAD artists and staff have paired up to present their work side by side.

🕷️ Join us for the opening reception on Saturday, April 11, 2026, from 1–4 PM.

🕸️ Visit our link in bio to view exhibition details on the web.

Convergence Opening Reception
NIAD Main Gallery
551 23rd St, Richmond, CA
April 11, 2026, from 1–4 PM
Artist Walkthrough: 2 PM

Image and Artwork Descriptions:
1. Donzell Lewis, on the left, and Ember Avalos, on the right, stand together against a white wall. Donzell holds a framed drawing of Ember’s artwork, which is a drawing of a brown spider with text, while Ember smiles and holds Donzell’s sculpture, a hand-sized black paper mache spider.

2. Donzell Lewis, Spider, 2022 (S5633) – A small naturalistic paper mache tarantula spider, painted all black.

3. Ember Avalos, Me Myself and I, 2026 – Multi-colored large brown spider looking at the viewer with eight large eyes. Capitalized text written with black ink around spider reads: Me, Myself, and I.

4. Donzell and Ember laughing together while holding their artworks This time, Donzell is holding the framed spider drawing turned around to show the back of the frame.

03/20/2026

Happy Spring Equinox from NIAD 🌱 The longer days mean more time for art! We’ve got plenty of creating ahead, rain or shine ⛈️ ☀️

Audio & Image Descriptions:
A one minute loop of “Groovin’” by The Young Rascals, a mellow and breezy soft rock song can be played with this post.

1. Terri Moore (left) and NIAD Artist Karen May (right) sit close together on a concrete bench outside NIAD against a pink wall, smiling in the sunshine.

2. Christian Vassell (left), Shana Harper (middle), and Rebecca Jantzen (right) pose in front of a mural and a vintage black car at De Young Art Museum.

3. A 22-second video of handmade protest posters displayed on NIAD’s front window. Posters include drawings and messages like ‘We keep us safe,’ ‘Ningún Humano es Ilegal,’ ‘End racism,’ and ‘Migration is beautiful.’

4. Hacer Acma sits in front of an easel, smiling at the camera. Behind her, a large portrait painting in progress.

5. A 5-second video of Arstanda Billy White drawing a blue line to complete the arm of a figure drawing on white paper.

6. An unfired beige clay sculpture by Brandon Harris — tall, textural, full of holes from the eyes, nose, and mouths of stacked skulls. The sculpture sits on a black sculpture platform at NIAD studio.

7. A 5-second video of Deatra Colbert and Felicia Griffin giving friendly peace signs with their hands as the camera zooms in and out on each of them.

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551 23rd Street
Richmond, CA
94804

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Monday	10am - 4pm
Tuesday	10am - 4pm
Wednesday	10am - 4pm
Thursday	10am - 4pm
Friday	10am - 4pm
Saturday	1pm - 4pm

Telephone

(510) 620-0290

Website

http://niadart.org/, http://linktr.ee/niadartcenter

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