Sandal Gap Studio is giving artists with intellectual disabilities a platform to show off their incredible talents!
Sandal Gap Studio is giving artists with intellectual disabilities a platform to show off their incredible talents!An art studio in the Memorial area is giving young artists with intellectual disabilities a place to shine.
was inspired by 19-year-old Sevy Eicher, a talented artist living with Down Syndrome. Sevy, who is non-verbal, was adopted by her parents from Bulgaria when she was 12 years old. "Sevy, when she first came home to us, had a lot of trouble just integrating into our family and communicating with us," said Sevy's mom, Lisa Eicher. "It was just a hard time for all of us. And then she started painting, and art kind of became her way of communication and kind of therapeutic for her, and she started really opening up to us." After Sevy's mom discovered her incredible talent for art, she created an online art gallery for her. Sevy's Instagram page quickly gained thousands of followers, and she now has collectors all over the world. She even has a wait list of thousands of potential buyers, hoping for a piece of her art. It was Sevy's sister, Ace, who came up with idea to create an art studio for other people like Sevy. "I thought that there are other people like her that could express themselves through art," said Ace. "It's just the best to see them express themselves." Ace and Lisa opened Sandal Gap Studio about five years ago, and now have nine full-time artists working with them. All have intellectual disabilities, including Down Syndrome and autism. "I am very proud of the art that I made," said Kate Weir, an artist at Sandal Gap. "My parents are so proud of me. I'm very happy I get to follow in my moms footsteps and be an artist like she is.""When the artists see their work up on the walls and people admiring it, it brings them so much joy," said Lisa. "It brings everybody so much joy, but it makes them happy to see people admiring their work and taking their work home and getting into bidding wars. They definitely get it. They know that they're doing big things."
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