Art Ability 2026
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Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital's Art Ability program is an integral part of the hospital's mission and celebrates artists with disabilities with a year-round showcase of artwork. The program features the country's largest international juried exhibition and sale of art and fine craft created by artists with cognitive, physical, hearing, or visual disabilities.
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Thursday, November 12, 2026
Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital
414 Paoli Pike
Malvern, PA, USA
All ticket purchases and donations are final and non-refundable
All ticket purchases and donations are final and non-refundable.
In accordance with IRS regulations, donor-advised funds, private foundations, and qualified charitable distributions may not be used to purchase event tickets.
Featured Artist
DaNice D. Marshall (pronounced duh-NYSE) is a Boston-based artist whose work is deeply informed by her experience living with a rare, incurable vascular disease. The illness left her with significant disabilities—including hearing loss, lung damage, and limited mobility—and redirected her creative journey from writing to visual art. A self-taught artist, Marshall has developed a distinctive narrative portrait style that celebrates everyday moments of joy, memory, and community. Through her work, she explores themes of empathy, human connection, and resilience while advocating for greater awareness of disability and rare disease communities.
Marshall's practice extends beyond creating paintings to reimagining how art can be experienced. Committed to accessibility and inclusion, she has developed tactile versions of her artwork by converting images into grayscale and incorporating embossing techniques and braille. These tactile cards allow individuals who are blind, have low vision, or are neurodiverse to engage with her work through touch. This innovative approach reflects her belief that art should be available to people of all abilities, transcending the limitations of traditional visual formats.
For Marshall, disability is not separate from her artistic practice—it is central to it. It shapes both her creative process and her purpose, influencing not only what she creates but why she creates it. Her paintings serve as expressions of memory, identity, and community while also functioning as tools for accessibility, inclusion, and understanding.
At the heart of her work is the belief that art has the power to slow us down and deepen our awareness of one another. Through her paintings and her commitment to accessible art, Marshall invites audiences to engage more fully with the world around them. Her work demonstrates how creativity can emerge from challenge, transforming adversity into opportunities for connection, empathy, and shared understanding.
As Marshall explains, "In a world that's spinning incredibly fast, my artwork asks us to slow down, to pause, to stop, to look and see one another. Art is society's empathy muscle; we must exercise it daily to strengthen it and keep it strong."
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