CELEBRATING & FUNDING THE ARTS
Arts Foundation News & Past Events
The 2nd Annual Honors Showcase recap coming soon!
Our 2025 RAF Honors Showcase proved to be a night to remember! The atmosphere was a buzz with creative energy, starting with the sounds of music coming from our amazing performers... from vocal warmups to instrument tuning tweaks to improvisational jams from our jazz quintet. To complete this immersive environment, our team installed two art galleries: a showcase of our grant and scholarship recipients, and a display of our winning 2025 “Capturing Nature” notecard artists. We are so pleased to see many of our gifted visual artists from past RAF events return to share their artwork with our audience, while enjoying the contributions from exciting new artists.
The evening of entertainment began with…[read more here]
RAF Local Art Gem Tour: Newark Museum of Art & Ballantine House
January 26, 2025
The Ridgewood Arts Foundation hosted a special arts tour at the Newark Museum of Art and the Ballantine House. The tour featured museum highlights from its wide-ranging collections, the historic Ballantine House and the consecrated Tibetan altar.
The 2nd annual ARTober exhibit debuted
on Friday, October 4, 2024 at the Master Art Studio Gallery with an opening reception filled with artists and supporters.
OUR MISSION
To celebrate and fund the arts in and around Ridgewood.
We are a New Jersey non-profit corporation with 501(c)(3) status from the Internal Revenue Service. As such RAF is a public charitable foundation.
We invite you to join us in this effort and to have fun while doing so, recognizing that art so enhances the quality of life and brings such pleasure to participants and spectators alike.
The Foundation makes modest gifts to worthy applicants. As we grow, our hope is that funding will advance to the point where gifts become more substantial, even to the point of assisting in the development of a facility in Ridgewood dedicated to artistic displays and performances.
Funding is provided through donations from individuals, grants from corporations and foundations, our membership program, and our fundraising activities, which are designed to promote the arts while encouraging donations to enable the Foundation to advance its work.
Contact us at information@ridgewoodartsfoundation.org
Thank you to our annual sponsors
whose generous contributions help RAF to support the local arts community with grants, scholarships and events!
