Art Ripples

Learn, make, and discover art for free.

We’re a nonprofit with the mission to provide an arts education for anyone, everywhere.

Our Values

Art Ripples provides free art classes that inspire and impart creativity, healing, and purpose. We hope to take part in making education in the arts readily accessible to everyone.

Programs and Workshops

Alongside, hosting art programs with women shelters, neighborhood community centers, and youth mental health initiatives, we hold month-long workshops of weekly live, online art classes.

Art and the Ripples

We believe that creating art together can make a difference. Volunteering to teach, supporting one another, and casting kindness into our communities will create ripples that circle on and on.

WORKSHOPS

Plein Air Painting

Art Practice

Course Description

To hold on to the moments we encounter, we can’t help but save captures of them as we go from place to place. In this course we will be documenting our connections to different locations by turning our chosen places into drawings and paintings. We will be creating art in front of our chosen places as we observe the colors, the light, and our own response. We will also adventure to and explore new locations through Google Earth.

Logistics

Schedule: Hour long, once a week
Dates: January 15 - February 15
Age Range: All Ages

The Cosmos of Art and Biology

Art Practice

Course Description

Have you ever wondered about how vast worlds within our own bodies work? Our immune system, the lub and dub of our hearts, and the way our cells make the instructions in our DNA come alive so that we can develop, live, and reproduce is fascinating to no end. In this class, we will explore biological systems using art, our story-telling capabilities, and creativity.

Logistics

Schedule: Hour long, once a week
Dates: January 15 - February 15
Age Range: 9th - 12th Grade

Music Time Travel

Music

Course Description

What was playing on the radio during the Great Depression? What kind of music quelled public fears during the Cold War? Follow us down memory lane as we analyze the songs people listened to during pivotal moments in human history. From listening to Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time to Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire, we’ll be learning about the happenings and intricacies of these historical world events through a musical lens.

Logistics

Schedule: Hour long, once a week
Dates: February 15 - March 15
Age Range: 9th - 12th Grade

Origami Creations

Arts & Crafts

Course Description

Mountain fold, valley fold, crease, rotate. Not only is the repeated folding of origami soothing, but it also helps channel excess energy into a beautiful creation. Worry over an impending calculus test transforms into five interesecting tetrahedra; a scrapped essay folds into a butterfly. At each session, we will try more complicated designs to build self-confidence and develop our desire to problem-solve. It is our hope that after this course students will continue the art of origami on their own.

Logistics

Schedule: Hour long, once a week
Dates: January 15 - March 15
Age Range: Any Age

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection Exploration

Art History

Course Description

In this course, we will find ourselves in Venice, Italy, walking through the corridors of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is one of the most important museums of twentieth century art. The collection embraces Cubism, Surrealism, abstract expressionism and prominent artists that are represented include Picasso, Miró, Kandinsky, Dali, and Magritte. Throughout the month, will look closely and learn about the works of art in this collection.

Logistics

Schedule: Hour long, once a week
Dates: January 15 - February 15
Age Range: Any Age

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