Art of Possibility Studios
Ketra Oberlander, founder of the Santa Clara (Calif.) agency, which represents handicapped artists:
I went blind when I was 40. Though I'd always been a writer, I wasn't ready to write about my experience yet, so I started to paint. It was just so much fun. Then people actually liked my paintings, and I thought, "Wow!" I mean, I don't know, they could be junk—I'm blind.
Then I hit a wall. I could not physically get to the places where people buy and sell art because of my disability. So that's where the business idea came from. I knew if I solved this problem for me, I could solve it for other disabled artists and do something truly significant. That's been the daily inspiration for the work.
