The Hozhoni Art Studio is one of the most advanced art programs for artists with developmental disabilities. It specializes in Native America and other outsider art. The program is a non-profit visual arts program where artists create and collaborate with other artists organizations and galleries, as well as display and sell their works.The goal is to promote artists with disabilities cultural contributions and successfully market their creations.

Terri is an artist of Celtic Heritage and  raised  in the Mid-West. She attended Columbus College of Art and Design (CCAD) where she studied Fine Art and attended Art Therapy classes with Don Jones a founding member and past President of the American Art Therapy Association (AATA) and Ohio State University (OSU) where she studied Art Education with an emphasis on Special Education. She founded Hozhoni’s Expressive Arts Therapeutic Program in 1995. Some of her interests include   Traveling, Outsider and Primitive art, Surrealism, and Native American Art and Culture.

2007 Advocate of the year City of Flagstaff Commission on Disability Awareness

2000 ”Best Practice Recognition” Arizona Department of Economic Security Department of Developmental Disabilities.

2012  Viola Award nominee

Timothy Robert Johnson is the manager of the Hozhoni Art Gallery. Born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Johnson was raised in Ohio, and has lived and worked on both coasts, and in many places in-between. A lifelong surrealist, and an activist for outsider artists, Johnson has curated and participated in numerous exhibitions featuring surrealist, tribal, visionary, and folk art. Johnson has also been an art instructor, and an advocate for artists with developmental disabilities, since 1995. Celtic and ancient art, tribal cultures, collective self-expression, and visionary science are among his many interests. 

David Hartley was raised in the small farming community of Corrine, Utah. He spent 10 years in the U.S. Army where he worked as a medic. Later, he attended both Utah State University and University of Utah where he studied Fine Art and Filmmaking. David came to the Hozhoni arts program in 2006. When not teaching, he works as an experimental filmmaker and photographer under the name of ‘David Asleep’.

Eriko Starley is from Omihachiman, Shiga Japan. She grew up in a traditional Japanese home, surrounded by beautiful gardens that deeply influenced her life as an artist and musician. She studied Fine Art with emphasis on classical piano and bassoon at Kyoto City Art University. Later she studied metalsmithing and jewelry design at Northern Arizona University. She has traveled the world extensively, which has enabled her to learn and practice many different styles and forms of art. She came to Hozhoni as an art instructor in 2007.

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