Graffiti Artist Tagging For A Cause
BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- Those who study mental health will tell you that someone who feels a part of a community will more often feel better about themselves.
Mike Schuh shows us a community of disabled people who, one night a month, create a community in a disco.
This isn't the official logo for the league, but with this man's influence, it might as well be.
"It's kind of a combination of kitsch and kind of edgy street art," Tom Schniedwind said.
At The League for People with Disabilities, you'll see flea market paintings upgraded with graffiti tags from Adam Stab.
The same guy now working out back.
He's here to add a little visual punch to Club 1111.
"We are preparing a mural for installation at The League for People with Disabilities for Club 1111," Stab said.
A labor of love as Stab is donating his time and art.
Art that will hang in one of the two rooms that -- once a month -- gets turns into a disco.
"We transform this entire room wit the artists and designers. You know we work all through the night to cover all these walls with original artwork, turns into a club," Schniedwind said. "This is one of our dance floors."
A dance floor for the disable.
A time to connect, forget what separates, remember what connects us all to each other.
"It's Studio 54 in the United States for people with disabilities," "One of our goals was to treat adults like adults with customer service like they've never experienced." Schniedwind added.
So now, 400 people show up -- in fact, plan their month around Club 1111.
"That changes the entire dynamic of their social calendar. It's a monumental difference in opportunities for them," Schniedwind said. "They've never had an experience where they don't have people right there with them. They feel like they're away from an having their own independent adult opportunities."
Something Stab is helping to make memorable.
"To do it for a new audience," Stab said, "that's always a good thing."
The next Club 1111 will happen at the league on Coldspring Saturday.
