Event Details
Date: Friday, October 3, 2025 - Friday, October 24, 2025
Location: Los Angeles City Hall Henry P. Rio Bridge Gallery
City Hall 201 N. Main St., 3rd Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Admission: Free and open to the public.
Please note: To visit the exhibition enter City Hall and check in with security and get a visitor’s badge. Take the elevator to the third floor and head toward the Henry P. Rio Bridge Gallery. Open Monday – Friday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, closed on the weekends.
The City of Los Angeles Department on Disability, in collaboration with the Department of Cultural Affairs, presents the Eighteenth Annual Disability Art Exhibition. This year – 2025 – marks both the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the 80th anniversary of National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM).
In celebration of the ADA 35, we are featuring artists from the ADA 35 Disability Art Showcase held in July.
In October, we celebrate NDEAM, which brings attention to disability employment and celebrates the many and varied contributions of America’s workers with disabilities. This year’s theme, “Celebrating Value and Talent,” recognizes the many contributions of people with disabilities, including those with mental health conditions and other nonobvious disabilities, to America’s workplaces and economy.
It is a privilege to showcase disabled artists and the organizations that support the artistic talent and abilities of youth and adults with disabilities. By exhibiting these works, we promote disabled artists; access to artistic expression and the development of marketable skills to achieve financial empowerment.
A special thanks to Service Center for Independent Life (SCIL) for making the exhibition accessible through their Braille Printing Services, Talking Fingers.
This exhibition was made possible through partnerships with the Academy of Special Dreams, Braille Institute of America, Center for Arts Eagle Rock, Create.A.Dot Studio, Exceptional Children’s Foundation, Korean American Special Education Center, L.A. GOAL, and Tierra del Sol Foundation. Their work advances access and equity for people with disabilities to achieve their potential as productive and valued Angelenos.
