Miami · 501(c)(3)
A Museum for Artists
with Disabilities
A fundamentally new museum model — anchored in Miami, connected across the country, and built for a new generation. A museum where everyone is part of the universe.
The museum
The museum is already operating.
Its walls just aren't centralized yet.
Open Universe is America's first museum dedicated to artists with disabilities — and a fundamentally new kind of museum.
Rather than housing a static collection in a single building, it operates through a physical hub anchored in Miami and a nationwide network of Museum partner locations where rotating exhibitions and work live in the world.
What's missing
Expanding the boundaries of contemporary art.
Artists with disabilities remain systematically excluded from mainstream cultural institutions. Their work is rarely exhibited at scale, rarely collected, and rarely generates sustainable income.
What's happening
A generation fluent in content, losing fluency in expression.
We are surrounded by images but disconnecting from art. Despite constant exposure to digital imagery, younger generations are becoming less connected to art as a form of identity, reflection, and meaning. Open Universe exists to make art emotionally relevant, accessible, and lived with again.
A distributed museum
Miami's rapid growth has fragmented community connection — Open Universe establishes a permanent fixture in Miami's arts landscape, giving the city a shared cultural home.
Partner institutions nationwide become a Museum — hosting rotating, museum-quality exhibitions and transforming everyday environments into genuine sites of cultural connection.
This is not a gallery.
Not a pop-up. It's a Universe.
Most museums collect, store, and occasionally show.
Open Universe collects, distributes, rotates, and reinvests.
What changes
There are roughly 130,000–140,000 nonprofits in arts and culture across the United States. Of those, 120–170 organizations specifically support artists with disabilities through studio programs — representing a true national network of 150+ organizations and 4,000–6,000 working artists. None of them have a museum built around their work.
Until now.
Success is permanence — becoming a lasting part of American cultural infrastructure.
The engine behind the museum
Open Invitational
A national platform connecting progressive studios, artists, and institutions — bringing the edges of contemporary art into the center.
"The only fair of its kind — connecting a national network of studios to the institutions and collectors who have never had access to this work."
Build the Museum.
Be part of the universe.
Open Universe · Your space. Our universe. All One Museum.