Home By Tamara Simon

This issue's cover art is a painting entitled Home, by Tamara Simon, an artist at the National Institute of Art and Disabilities (NIAD). NIAD is an innovative visual arts center assisting adults with developmental and other physical disabilities in Richmond, California. The NIAD program develops the capacity for creative expression in people with developmental and other physical disabilities, and provides a gallery and other exhibition opportunities for their work.

Tamara Simon came to NIAD in 1993 at the age of 22. Simon works at NIAD five days a week, where she paints, sculpts, and makes costumes and collages. Her work has appeared in numerous NIAD exhibits and at several Bay Area locations. Born and raised in the Richmond area, Simon's painting entitled Home was recently selected as one of four images reproduced as a card currently available at NIAD's gift store. She shows her home at night, filled with light and surrounded by stars.

For more information about NIAD and its artists, please visit their website.