About
The Riverside Arts Center is a regional anchor for creative practice and learning. Home to galleries, artist studios, and a school that showcases the art of our time, RAC serves as a hub for artistic exploration and community engagement. Since 1993, the Riverside Arts Center (RAC) has been providing Riverside, its surrounding suburbs and the city of Chicago with vital arts programming. We host exhibitions, arts classes, special events, and celebrations of creativity. Located in the heart of Historic Riverside, IL, the RAC includes the Freeark Gallery + Sculpture Garden, The FlexSpace, and a variety of studio spaces, including a renowned clay studio that has a full range of electric, raku and stoneware kilns.
our mission
The Riverside Arts Center strives to be the epicenter for contemporary art in the near west suburbs of Chicago. Through exhibitions, education, artist studios and public events, the RAC is an advocate for the vital role the arts play in nurturing community, and amplifying diverse experiences, ideas, and backgrounds.
Equity
Riverside Arts Center is committed to equity & inclusion in all our programming, including our classrooms and exhibition spaces. Through art, RAC connects a community of artists, art lovers and students that extends from the residents of Riverside to greater Chicago and beyond. We treasure the diversity of the people we touch. We pledge to continue developing our program to serve and welcome everyone.
“Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it from even the most tragic of circumstances. Art reminds us that we belong here. And if we serve, we last.” --Toni Morrison
At The Riverside Arts Center, we appreciate creativity's essential role in our everyday lives, from art-making to decision-making to relationship-building. That’s one of the reasons we offer opportunities for people of all ages to engage in the arts, whether it be experiencing an exhibition, taking an art class, meeting an artist, or exhibiting your own art.
During this season of giving, we invite you to donate to RAC so that we can continue to create more opportunities for community members to experience art.
When you donate to RAC, we put your dollars to work to ensure the community is fueled by creativity. Every dollar you invest in the arts today helps us reach children, families, artists, and community members through programs at RAC in the year ahead!
Double Your Donation!
Between now and 12/31/2024, a generous donor will match each dollar donated up to $5,000.
Please join us by making a gift today!
Exhibitions
RAC exhibits a variety of work including painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, installation and more.
Membership
By becoming a RAC member, you’re not only investing in the success of the Arts Center, but also the quality of life in our community. Memberships are a contribution to RAC and are fully tax-deductible. Join today!
“An experience like nothing else”
