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Arts in Medicine at GROW HUB

GROW HUB is a local non-profit where adults of all abilities can find meaningful work.

GROW HUB Community Art Day

What: Artmaking workshop for adults in the disability community and their caregivers.

Free to attend with registration required ahead of time.

Offered in a socially inclusive setting, participants can expect to make a different project each month that can be taken home at the end of class.

When: Every first Tuesday of each month from 11AM – 12PM

Where: GROW HUB (2900 NE 8th Ave)

Eligibility criteria:
• Over 18 years of age
• Enthusiastic for art
• Living with a physical, developmental, intellectual or emotional disability
• No history of aggressive behaviors
• Able to follow basic instructions with guidance

Guidelines:
• Caregivers may choose to assist and/ or participate in the activity, or wait on site at Grow Hub, depending on artist’s needs.
• No drop-offs.
• Liability waivers are required for participation.
• Participants who are inappropriate may be asked not to return based on the discretion of the instructors.

Register: Community art day
A person wearing a burgundy shirt and red beanie hat is painting with blue paint on a piece of butcher paper laid on a tabletop.
Three people are holding terracotta pots decorated with mosaic tiles. They are smiling at the camera as they pose while decorating their pots.
Clay ornaments of various shapes and sizes are laid on a table covered by butcher paper.
A sign that reads
Six paintings of various sizes are hung on a wall located inside the Art Hub Gallery.
A mirror with a painted frame hangs on the wall. The frame is decorated in different colors of polka dots.
Strands of glass beads with suncatchers at the end are hung in a window frame inside the Art Hub Gallery.
GROW HUB employee, Sarah, is sitting at a table and decorating a terracotta pot with glass circles.

GROW HUB Artmaking for Employees

Visual artists from the UF Health Shands Arts in Medicine team partner with GROW HUB to provide craft-based art-making workshops that produce a piece of art that the participants can then sell.

From large scale, handmade tie-dyed designs, to painted artworks on canvas and wood panels, the artmakers at GROW HUB are guided through the activity to create a product that they can either take home or sell to support themselves.