Grantee Database
RYMAN CARROLL FOUNDATION
Grant Year
2022-23
Grant Program
Creative Youth Development
Award Amount
$38,000.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, Ryman Carroll Foundation will provide advanced studio art classes, and college and career guidance, to over 1,000 students from January 2023-December 2024. Young artists, grades 9 – 12, ages 14 – 18 from Southern California will receive high-quality sequential art instruction on the weekends.
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
