Refuge Art School provides a safe, equitable space for local students to explore their talents and develop as artists through nurturing, mentorship, and rigorous arts instruction.
""Refuge has helped me grow as an artist and a person through therapeutic class nights, workshops focusing on certain techniques or using new media, and by taking many risks."."
- Amy, 18
"" Refuge has taught me to healthily pursue my art career. I've benefitted so much from being at Refuge, it's hard to imagine where I would be without having spent time there."
-Tina, 20
"Refuge helped me not only become a better artist technically in my work, but helped me become more confident in my own style and who I am as a person and creator."
- Emily, 19
"Refuge changed me because I never knew how successful I could be till I started making art.For me art opened so many doors to other opportunities in my life. Now I look at everything as a form of art, even life In general."
