“I’m proud to have my work featured in The Views at Angle Lake through ArtLifting. Each opportunity like this encourages me to continue pushing the boundaries of my work and explore new directions in my practice. The support from these projects allows me to spend more time in the studio experimenting, creating, and growing as an artist.”
— Marc, ArtLifting Artist
Art with a Story
The Views at Angle Lake has partnered with ArtLifting to bring meaningful and socially impactful artwork to our community. Our community will feature 29 canvas prints and one custom wallcovering showcasing the work of seven artists with disabilities, whose practices span painting, mixed media, and abstract expression. The collection introduces a diverse range of artistic perspectives into shared community spaces, enriching the resident environment while creating economic opportunity for artists.
This collaboration highlights the ongoing partnership between ArtLifting and Greystar, which began in 2022 and has provided support to artists through artwork sales and licensing. This includes direct payment to artists for their work as well as contributions to the ArtLifting Community Impact Fund, which provides art supplies to nonprofit community partners and professional development grants to artists with disabilities.
Among the featured artists are:
- Cheryl Kinderknecht (Bradenton, FL), an artist living with retinitis pigmentosa whose work is guided by memory, intuition, and the “mind’s eye” rather than sight alone. Drawing on a lifelong passion for creativity, her art explores resilience and self-expression while navigating the shifting perception of color, shape, and space caused by progressive vision loss.
- Marc (Dallas, TX), an abstract painter living with multiple sclerosis who turned to art after leaving a fast-paced corporate career. Known for his vibrant colors and richly textured surfaces, his layered compositions evolve slowly over time, allowing him to express perspective, connection, and resilience through paint.
- Han Huisman (Saint Croix Falls, WI), a deaf, Dutch-born artist and former neuroscientist whose mixed media work reflects a lifelong curiosity about experimentation and process. Drawing on his scientific background, he incorporates found materials such as stamps, letters, and bank notes, as well as chemical reactions, to create layered compositions that explore color, structure, and discovery.
- Junco Norton (Marlborough, MA), a Brazilian-born, Japanese-descended artist who creates intricate mixed media paintings inspired by cultural heritage and the natural beauty of the Amazon rainforest. Working with collage, hand-painted rice paper, and techniques influenced by Japanese calligraphy and marbling, she builds richly layered compositions while navigating vision loss from glaucoma and macular degeneration.
- Laural Hartman (Pittsford, NY), a deaf painter and printmaker whose work explores perception, mapping, and incidental learning through a visually driven understanding of the world. Layering printmaking, gestural mark-making, and mixed media, she creates richly textured abstractions that reflect the heightened observation and visual awareness that have shaped her experience navigating a world where sound is not a primary source of information.
- Barbara Barnett (Claremont, CA), a U.S. Army veteran whose abstract paintings explore themes of healing, resilience, and life’s evolving journey. Originally turning to art as a refuge while navigating PTSD and military sexual trauma after serving in the Army Medical Corps during the Vietnam War, her rhythmic compositions often incorporate architectural structure, circles, and flowing pathways that reflect movement, reflection, and acceptance.
- Jacob Brown (Mars, PA), an artist living with spastic cerebral palsy whose work reflects the unique relationship between his mind, body, and creative process. Drawing is central to his practice, where layered materials like oil stick, ink, metal leaf, and found workshop materials build expressive surfaces shaped by his distinctive calligraphic mark-making.
