With support from the California Arts Council, Ryman Carroll Foundation will provide advanced studio art classes, and college and career guidance, to 600 students during the 2018-2019 grant period. Ryman Arts will serve 300 students in 20 classes at our Los Angeles site at Otis College of Art & Design and 300 students in 20 classes at our Orange County site at CSUF.
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.
