Grantee Database
RYMAN CARROLL FOUNDATION
Grant Year
2025-26
Grant Program
Arts and Youth
Award Amount
$20,500.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, the Ryman-Carroll Foundation (Ryman Arts) will provide advanced studio art classes (Foundation Drawing, Intermediate Drawing & Painting, and Advanced Painting) and college and career guidance, to over 575 students through its core program and an additional 500+ students through outreach from January – September 2026. Young artists in grades 9–12 (ages 14–18) from Southern California will receive high-quality, sequential art instruction from professional teaching artists at Ryman Arts. Classes will be held on weekends during the school year at our partner campuses—Otis College of Art and Design and Cal State University, Fullerton—and on weekdays during the summer at the USC Roski School of Art and Design.
Organization Summary
Since 1990, Ryman Arts has provided professional fine arts classes along with college and career planning to talented youth in Southern California, at no cost to the students. Recognized for the superior quality of its program, Ryman Arts was named a SoCaL PBS Community Champion (2015), a National Program of Excellence three times by the President’s Committee on the Arts & Humanities and received the Pasadena Art Alliance Impact Award in 2019.
Ryman Arts offers high quality intensive studio classes taught by master teaching artists, art supplies, college and career planning, field trips, and community engagement opportunities—all at no cost to the student. This 1½-year-long program helps participants build transferable life skills, strengthen their self-discipline and self-confidence, and prepare for a positive, productive future. Classes are held on the campuses of Otis College of Art & Design and California State University, Fullerton. Students complete this program ready to meet the challenges of college, work, and life.
Organization
Ryman Arts
Address
1933 S Broadway
Suite 1138
Los Angeles
90007
County
Los Angeles
Region
South – Los Angeles & Orange
Phone
(213) 629-2787
Congressional District
California Assembly district 57
State Assembly District
District CA-37
State Senate District
District 28
