SAGE Studio & Gallery

SAGE Studio & Gallery is a non-profit art space in east Austin that provides artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities the materials, space, and support to produce, exhibit, and sell their artwork. SAGE serves artists with disabilities through two main programs: our Studio Program and our Exhibition Program. Artists in our Studio Program create work in our studio space at Canopy with the guidance of practicing artist facilitators. The goal for participating artists is to explore new mediums, strengthen their artistic voice, and build a cohesive portfolio of work for exhibition. Through our Exhibition Program, we put on bimonthly art exhibitions in our gallery to showcase the work of our studio artists, alongside the work of artists with disabilities from across the country who create their work outside our studio.

Since our founding in 2017, we have represented the work of more than 50 artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities, mounted 23 exhibitions, and represented artists at the Outsider Art Fair in New York City three times. We have facilitated collaborations between our artists and nationally recognized partners, including Vans shoes, Whataburger, and the Biden presidential campaign, and been recognized as Austin's "Best Outsider Art Advocate” by the Austin Chronicle.