Quick Links to Our Programs:

Artist-In-Residence

International Child Art Collection

Ragan Art Academy

Sunday Open Sunday

The Cotsen Artist Fellowship

Kids for Peace Workshop

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OUR PROGRAMS:

The Artist-In Residence Program provides arts workshops for students in visual, cultural, environmental, and literary arts. Each residency is custom designed in theme and length for the elementary school, social service agency, library, or museum site. To design an artist residency for your site or for more information, please call Executive Director Shelah Lehrer-Graiwer at (323)363-4629.

The International Child Art Collection (ICAC) consists of 3,000 artworks created by children ages 5-17 from around the world. The framed art works are exhibited in galleries, schools, museums, community centers and available to businesses. To schedule an exhibition at your site or for more information, please call Executive Director Shelah Lehrer-Graiwer at (323) 363-4629.

The Ragan Art Academy is a two-year, sequential program providing students ages 12 and up with a strong foundation in the visual arts through a curriculum of life drawing, painting, sculpture and art history. Classes meet one evening per week between October and June at the Barnsdall Arts Junior Arts Center in Hollywood and the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena. For more information, please call Program Director Quan Trang at (310)402-3511, or Nicola Vruwink at (310) 916-8592.

Sunday Open Sunday (SOS) offers ongoing free art workshops for families throughout the city, especially in underserved areas.

The Cotsen Artist Fellowship funds an artist fellowship once every two or three years which enables Barnsdall Arts/FOJAC to invite a widely-recognized artist for a residency with local children and youth. The Cotsen Artist Fellowship in 2005 will be led by the architect Michael Rotondi. The program will take place in July and August at Barnsdall Art Parks's Junior Arts Center. There will be a student exhibition as well as a reception in October 2005 in conjunction with the Frank Lloyd Wright conference and architectural celebration in Los Angeles, as well as at Barnsdall Art Park. For more information, please call Program Director Quan Trang at (310)402-3511.

Kids for Peace Workshops is a growing international interactive arts program committed to developing the important threads of inter-group cooperation that is essential for peace and co-existence among human beings worldwide. Founded and directed by artist Gayle Gale, the program is currently collaborating with Barnsdall Arts/FOJAC and the Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity. Families and kids have the opportunity to explore the creative process and celebrate their rich ethnic diversity with quality educational arts workshops. For more information, click here or contact Gayle Gale at (323) 874-3887.