A Mother Builds a Platform for Artists With Disabilities
In short
- Tickle Your Art works with artists with Down syndrome and intellectual disabilities.
- Its products include lifestyle goods, books and corporate gifts.
- The enterprise has worked with more than 25 neurodiverse artists.
Why the Good News Desk likes this one
The idea began at home, when founder Shweta Runwal saw her daughter Dhriti communicate through drawing. Shweta had noticed that conversations about children with intellectual disabilities focused on what they could not do. Tickle Your Art asks what they can create instead.
From The Better India
A paintbrush moves slowly across the paper. Dhriti is focused on the colours in front of her, adding one shade after another to a painting that, to someone else, may simply look like a piece of art. But to her mother, Shweta Runwal, moments like these hold a much deeper meaning. Years ago, when Dhriti was still a little girl and could speak only in single words, she came home with a diary. On one of its pages, she had drawn two stick figures. One of them was crying. Shweta was worried and asked her daughter what had happened. Dhriti tried to explain that her friend was moving away. “It was...
Ask this story
For kids
Dhriti is a girl with Down syndrome who loves to paint. Her mom saw that Dhriti could share her feelings through art. Her mom started a company that turns the art of many children like Dhriti into cards, books and gifts. Question to talk about: What is one way you like to share how you feel?
