Art Project Encourages Disabled Adults

• By Tricia Miller
• Roll Call Staff
• Jan. 27, 2010, Midnight

Down a muddy stretch of New York Avenue Northeast, a pedestrian will find a place with a little more color than the other storefronts. Art Enables, a nonprofit that works with mentally and developmentally disabled adults, provides the brightly lit studio space for budding artists. They create what’s known as outsider art, the raw kind of work produced by people who are not formally trained.