"Our Mission is to provide a venue for artists with disabilities that fosters self-expression through freedom and support. Outside the Lines Studio is an arts-based alternative day program, collectively run by artists, for individuals with developmental and physical disabilities.  We provide a creative, supportive community, where each individual can explore their own unique potential in a way that best suits their interests, talents, and learning styles.  In addition to expressive therapy, job-training, and community integration, we provide opportunities for our individuals to gain recognition and income as artists.  85% proceeds go directly to the individual artist.

The Interpretive still life show features work done at a drawing workshop at Outside the Lines Studio, an arts-based day program for artists with disabilities. Each still life is assembled to speak to their perspectives and functions as a platform for their artistic style and creative visions. It celebrates the authentic unique voices of four of its artists:

Tony Lake morphs each subject into an ovoid abstraction, often referencing self-portraits that incorporate facial features.  His ovals are rich with layers of color that he observes in the still life before him, and the colors often reach out and interact with the surrounding space.

Martin Jerauld is highly imaginative and imbues each still life with his rich, highly developed, and provocative iconography, culled from art history, cinema, and graphic novels.

Kenny Dearborn rigorously investigates the objects themselves and reconstructs them in a way asks the viewer to reinterpret familiar objects.  His use of line and pattern is elegant and refreshing.

Gary Marshall builds structures and landscapes, water and sky around his still life objects.  He literally frames them in a new context, creating a stage set for them where elements of nature are interacting characters."