ABOUT US

We're working to ignite the creative potential in students.

Our Story

2000

Beginning

We begin working with underserved schools in the Barrio Logan & National City communities of San Diego, creating permanent mosaic artworks with students and their families.

2004–2006

Healing Art

We partner with the Success Optimist Club and the San Diego Zoo to bring therapeutic art experiences to cancer patients at Kaiser Permanente Zion. The program’s success brought partnerships with Rady’s Children Hospital and Children’s Hospital Central California.

2005–NOW

School Partnerships

School beautification projects, designed and created with school students and teachers in San Diego and Imperial Valley, CA. 

2007–NOW

Lifelong Friends

We begin a lasting partnership with Burnham Foundation and Perkins Elementary School to provide hands-on art experiences to multiple generations of students.

2007–2017

City of Mosaics

We work with community members in the City of Imperial to create hundreds of mosaic artworks that transformed the entire city. 

2008

New Connections Launched

We develop our first classroom art program, New Connections, in collaboration with school teachers in both San Diego and the Imperial Valley. 

2011–NOW

Growing Creative Family

Partnership with Price Charities Foundation to serve schools and families in the City Heights community of San Diego.

2018

Rebuilding Paradise

In the aftermath of the devastating Camp Fire, Rainforest Art Project lept into action to help rebuild the city of Paradise, CA, bringing art and healing to hundreds of students and teachers. 

2019

Going North

Full-scale studio opens in Chico, CA to serve the counties of Butte, Orland, and Colusa, and support the growing request for creativity in the educational school system.

2020

Nationwide Expansion

After decades working with schools, we launch online to bring educational creativity programs directly to families. 

Why People Love Us

Check Out Our Blog

Read articles written by our founder, Dan Evers, about the impact of art in schools and how Rainforest Art Project is determined to make a difference in local communities.

Meet Our Fearless Team

We are a team of professional artists and educators who have come together with a strong belief: creativity is the most important skill a child can learn—and it can be taught.