Happy MLK Day, if you’re reading this on the day I wrote it! The artwork below is by Elaine H., an artist at L.A. GOAL, a non-profit organization, based in Los Angeles, committed to creating opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities so they can live more fulfilling lives. (Click here to read about it--it’s pretty great.) Elaine and four of her fellow artists at L.A. GOAL took a Now See Hear workshop in late 2025 and came up with some dazzling drawings as they listened to songs from the project. You can see their art in various threads on this site–check out THE THREAD WITH BABIES NAMED MOON PIE, THE THREAD WITH MORE DOORS THAN YOU CAN SHAKE A STICK AT, THE THREAD THAT WILL SEND YOU OVER THE EDGE, and THE THREAD WHERE THE WORLD GOES MAD BUT YOU STILL GET COOKIES.
L.A. GOAL is now the second organization of this sort to partner with Now See Hear. For years the project has been getting both art and music from the artists at Able ARTS Work, in the Long Beach, CA area. (Click here for info.) The Able ARTS Work people are all over this project; you’ll find them in many threads.
Now that NSH and L.A. GOAL have forged this relationship, we’re both hoping that more workshops will happen and more art will spring from them. Stay tuned.
And as for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.–I can’t do better than to quote Stevie Wonder: “Cause we all know in our minds / That there ought to be a time / That we can set aside / To show just how much we love you.”
