Terartai

A social enterprise that voices out stories and gifts of everyone, including artists from underrepresented communities. Today we are working together with gifted artists with special-needs. Most of them have autism, cerebral palsy, down syndrome and asperger’s. Their condition makes it hard for them to express themselves and communicate verbally, but their stories don’t stop there. Rather they tell their stories through art. The average age of our artists is 26 years old. Most of them have finished their academic educations at their special-needs school, however, they don't have many options to pursue their educational and vocational opportunities. Today we are working with 12 artists with special-needs, who are also a full time student at SLB Kyriakon in Jakarta. Every artwork voices out their point of view, courage, challenges, and hopes. The artworks are then sublimed into our items, so their stories can be heard by a larger audience.