You may already know Visionaries + Voices artists from P&G’s Bounty Artist Inclusive Project. Now you have the opportunity to experience how their super powers can elevate your own creative process and outcomes. A local packaging creative shop will team up with Visionaries + Voices artists disabilities for a week of collaboration. You’re invited to witness as they present their ideas, enhanced by uncommonly brilliant neurodivergent creators.

V+V will kick-off the presentation by telling us about V+V+U, their professional art resource for corporations and brands. Then, the packaging creative shop will present their experiences and ideas from the past week. You’ll call it complementary, disruptive, or just plain awesome. Either way, you’ll be a better creative for it.

Visionaries + Voices is a progressive art studio in Cincinnati, OH which provides creative, professional, and educational opportunities to artists with disabilities.

Event timeline: 

• 9:00am – 9:30am – Check-in, Breakfast, & Networking
• 9:30am – 10:45am – Presentations + Q&A
• 10:45am – 11:00am – Closing Remarks & Networking

Tickets:

• $10 for Non-Members
• $5 for Members*
• Free for Students**

*AIGA members should have received a promo code via email for their discount. If you have an active AIGA, SEGD, or Cov Creates membership and have not received a promo code, please reach out to Ashton Spann at ashton@aigacincinnati.org 

**Students must use their university email to register and must present their university ID in order to receive the discount. If you are not a student, but are in need of discounted admission, please consider volunteering at design week.

About our sponsors:

Ruttle Design Group

We leverage consumer insights to illuminate the possibilities for creating richer brand experiences. Our strategic approach to brand building elevates each brand by connecting with consumers through creative design expressions and engaging storytelling. Always with an eye toward the future, we approach every project with a collaborative mindset and pure passion for the craft.

Cog Cincinnati

Cog, LLC was forged in 2010 from dark matter and the muscles of superheroes. We specialize in driving faster, smarter brand packaging development to achieve superior consumer delight with brands. We engage with packaging R+D, design, printing, and materials + embellishments organizations to keep an eye on innovation in the early stages and waste out of the later ones. Expect improved exploration, mock-ups, prototypes, design realization, and superior consumer engagement with brands on-shelf and in-home.

Visionaries + Voices

Established in 2003, Visionaries + Voices is a non-profit organization that provides creative, professional, and educational opportunities to more than 125 visual artists with disabilities.

Artists working at V+V actively contribute to the greater arts community through creative, educational, and strategic partnerships with local and regional artists, schools, and business leaders. Collectively, we are growing a more inclusive arts community in Greater Cincinnati.

Art Academy of Cincinnati 

We may be small, but our commitment is big. It’s the same commitment our students make to themselves: to make the best art they can. The Art Academy of Cincinnati has kept that commitment since 1869, building a rich tradition of innovation and excellence in the visual arts.

The Art Academy is one of the smallest four-year art colleges in the country, and that’s one of our greatest strengths: It means our students really get to be themselves. They receive individualized attention from faculty, the freedom to develop their personal vision, and a unique opportunity to carve out their identity.