The Disabled Creatives Alliance aims to curate creative spaces for adults with disabilities to participate in art workshops with a focus in improving temporary wellbeing and positively shifting self-perception of participant’s disabilities. The aim of the study is to evaluate potential stress reduction and wellbeing improvement qualities in a museum setting. The study also will evaluate the museum as a location for positive social connection and community wellbeing in a finalized paper through participant self-reported and observational qualitative data.

The main objective is to assess effectiveness of participatory art workshops for adults with disabilities in different countries and platforms, which will be measured through surveys. Other objectives include determining whether participants see improved wellbeing and/or positive disability perception changes and evaluating the effectiveness of Disabled Creates Alliance as a community hub for disabled adults to improve wellbeing, which will be measured through self-reported data and surveys.

A pilot prompt called Garden of Self was created to be used globally online and in person workshops. This project will take form in a collage project, a written word project, and other visual art modalities.

These artworks, after given consent by participants, will be added to the website and showcase their work in a collaborative community 'garden.' The website will add artist names and profiles, and allow space for disabled artists to share their websites and Etsy shops etc.

The website will also include finalized data and serve as an open space for collaboration with other organizations, particularly in the Arts in Medicine field.

Personally, I will be doing several workshops in the Gainesville area and hope to set up quarterly projects for the disabled community in Gainesville. I currently have a planned workshop with Grow Hub, the DRC at UF, and hope to have one at the AClibrary system.