Art and the Zen of Bicycle Maintenance

When I lived in DC, one of my favorite local orgs was Art Enables, a non-profit studio and gallery for artists with mental and/or developmental disabilities — or, as they say in their much-catchier tag line: “Outsider art, inside the Beltway.”

I’m still on their mailing list, and I got a postcard yesterday for an event I’d definitely attend if I were in town:

What: Art and the Zen of Bicycle Maintenance

When: Saturday, May 15, 2010, from 3-5pm

“The artists at Art Enables work at making the best outsider art inside the Beltway. The young people in training at Phoenix Bikes learn entrepreneurship from running a bike shop. They also make bike art. Karma.”

Two great community orgs coming together to produce a creative event… (more…)