Visionaries + Voices

Growing Trade has teamed up with the artists from Visionaries and Voices to create a new mural for Northside, and you can help!

Our blank storefront wall at Growing Trade Pet & Plant has been
begging for artwork since we moved in over a year ago. Lucky for us, we happen to be located across the street from a nexus of creative energy in Cincinnati, Visionaries + Voices!

Last summer, we began to work together with V&V on planning a grand mural for our 3840 Spring Grove Avenue home. Growing Trade’s mural will be 40 feet long and 12 feet high, and will be prominently visible from Spring Grove Avenue. Walkers, bus riders, motorists, customers, and neighbors… everyone will be able to enjoy the artwork!

The mission of Visionaries + Voices is to provide artistic and cultural opportunities for artists with disabilities, and to build an inclusive environment where all artists feel valued. We value a world in which artists with disabilities not only create and share their works of art, but also are able to learn, work, collaborate, exhibit, teach, and celebrate with other community members.

The main priority at Visionaries and Voices are the artists: making sure they have successful, fun, educational days, and opportunities to build relationships in the studio and in the greater arts community, while making great art.

An amazing opportunity for a solo show at New York City's Condo Art Fair through White Columns Gallery has just been given to Curtis Davis.  It couldn’t have come to a more deserving and hardworking artist who is a Cincinnati native and has a studio at V+V.  While this is an incredible opportunity for Curtis getting his work before a global audience, it comes with costs of crating, shipping, and travel.  Because of the short turn around time and the fact we are three weeks at the end of our fiscal year, we need your help to get Curtis, his art, and support staff to New York and back.  Here's the breakdown:


 
$1,500- We get Curtis' art (sculpture and paintings) to NYC for the show and return it to Cincinnati, but Curtis doesn't make it to the Big Apple.
 
$2,500- We get the art, Curtis, and his Independent Provider (support staff) to the NYC opening and back home
 
$3,500- We get the art, Curtis, his Independent Provider, and a V+V staff member to the opening and back home
 
Please share, donate, like, whatever we need to do to spread the word to help Curtis get to NYC!

More information about Visionaries and Voices (V & V): Artists with disabilities are valued members of their communities and that they have the opportunity for continuous collaboration, creativity, learning, and fun.