Our community programs offer opportunities for all ages to connect with the arts in nature or outdoor settings.
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Garden Magic
Arts education in a natural setting, with emphasis on creative projects that build climate resilience through education, awareness and action.
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From Earth to Art
In this multigenerational series, participants learn through hands-on activities rooted in ancient art forms, offering real, accessible solutions to today’s climate crisis.
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Community Art Workshops
Free public workshops for all ages blending sustainable art making with civic action and conservation education from local artists and experts.
GARDEN MAGIC
This program teaches various earth-friendly forms of artistic expression and creative climate-resilience in an outdoor, natural setting.
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By bringing in local sustainable artists, students are given the opportunity to create art outside, using natural and repurposed materials, drawing connections between their artistic creations and the ecology that surrounds them. Artforms explored in past Garden Magic programs include murals, botanical drawings, plant markers and ollas (subterranean pots used to water plants).
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Garden Magic is tailored towards youth aged 5-11.
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Students learn various arts skills like painting, drawing, sculpture and ceramics as they relate to nature, native ecology and climate resilience. Applying these lessons in a natural outdoor setting draws deeper connections between artmaking and creativity to the natural world.
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Altadena, CA
Glassell Park Community Garden, Glassell Park, Los Angeles
Hungry Gardens Urban Farm, Sun Valley, CA
The Friendship Garden at Eucalyptus Elementary School, Hawthorne, CA
FROM EARTH TO ART
From Earth to Art is a free, intergenerational workshop series for art & earth-lovers of all ages. Led by a local artist, participants learn hands-on natural building and artmaking techniques using affordable, natural materials they can find in their own communities or backyards!
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This outdoor, hands-on program teaches ancient, sustainable, and creative building techniques using natural materials such as wild harvested clay, straw, sand, nopal juice and more.
Artworks made include earth bricks, fire pits, cob benches, walking sticks, cyanotype prints from native plants.
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This workshops series serves community members ages 9 and older, offering a chance for intergenerational learning and connection!
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With an emphasis on accessible techniques and affordable, easy-to-find materials that can be used to enhance living and/or gathering spaces, climate resilience is increased on a hyper-local level.
Identifying natural materials that can be used for art and building, such as invasive plants, native plants, wild clay and more gives participants a direct connection between the natural environment and their own creativity.
From Earth to Art helps restore neighborhood/community connections to the earth, creativity, and one another!
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Ant Farm Adventures, Sun Valley, CA
Altadena, CA
COMMUNITY ART WORKSHOPS
Our public programs unite all demographics and age groups in artmaking and civic engagement, providing opportunities to take direct action in your community!
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In public outdoor settings, local artists and activists engage all demographics in creative reuse, interactive art-making and opportunities to connect with and give back to their community.
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These programs our multigenerational, cross-cultural and free or low cost for all!
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Our public programs invite participants to explore and express themes affecting their local community, while connecting with opportunities to take direct action in social justice and/or environmental justice issues.
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From seedling starter workshops in West Los Angeles and Orange County, to fabric and collage workshops in Northeast Los Angeles, we’ve partnered with various community organizations to offer our workshops.
Some locations include:
Gardena Willows Wetland Preserve, Manuela DTLA, Spoke Bicycle Cafe, Imperfect Foods and The YMCA.
“The beauty that RuckusRoots nourishes in our communities is the perfect remedy for a world craving to remember creative engagement and purposeful connection.
RuckusRoots is the perfect antidote for all of us who find ourselves isolated, staring at screens and wondering what to do with ourselves.....CREATE ART! It is an honor to be able to put my money into circulation in this beautiful and productive way.
— Donor