Autistic Social Creative Space

Autistic Social Creative Space

Adult | This class is completed

290 Whisconier Road Brookfield, CT 06804 United States

Meeting Room (3rd Floor)

Adult 18-25

Friday, March 15, 2024-Friday, April 19, 2024

5:00 PM-7:00 PM on Fri

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$29.00

Unmask and join other neurodivergent artists for an evening of socializing and art making. Young adults ages 18-25 with independently-high functioning/low-support needs Autism can have a safe space to make new friends, improve their social skills, and connect over common experiences. Each week will follow an on-and-off pattern where one week will focus on socializing, and the other will focus around a small art project. Draw, paint, sketch, and write, while improving your self-confidence and enriching your connection to the community. 


  • Classroom requires climbing a narrow staircase.

    Students must be able to participate on their own without the need of assistance (such as a parent or a professional aid or counselor). This initiative is meant to fill a missing gap in community support for autistic young adults with high-functioning/low support-needs who can socialize independently without assistant aid, and to give them a safe space to express themselves and socialize.

    Projects and topics will be discussed the week beforehand, so there are no surprises. Registered students will receive a welcome email with images of the meeting space, as well as weekly emails prior to meeting dates describing the topic or project of each meeting.


    Students may bring snacks (no nuts), blankets, and anything that may help them feel more comfortable such as a fidget toy or stuffed animal.

  • **A $4 registration fee is included in the tuition
  • Members will have the $4 registration fee retracted
  • All materials are included in the tuition

Nielsen, Danielle

Danielle (she/they) is an illustrator with a passion for digital arts and traditional media. Danielle graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in illustration with a minor in creative writing from Western Connecticut State University, as an additional graduate of the Kathwari Honors Program. As of April, 2023, Danielle works as a registrar for the Brookfield Craft Center.

Danielle has been professionally working for more than 10 years and has worked with individual clients, small businesses, and companies such as Tumblr and Amazon Prime Video. Her areas of interest are character development and concept art, and pen and ink drawings, and is wildly inspired by intricate designs and color combinations, and an extensive library of music. You will often find her creating weird, unusual, and odd subjects of art, such as monsters. As an autistic artist, Danielle prides herself on creating inclusive and safe spaces for individuals with disability while advocating for their needs and voices to be heard.

"I’m an eclectic machine. My illustrations are for me, first, then for those who need them. I don’t know what my work is, and never have; I like sharp edges and organic messes. When it’s not technical, it’s sentimental and sometimes horrifically unusual and cryptid. It’s about people, and me (whatever me is), and things that happened to be so weird they became normal."