The Rye Arts Center

The Rye Arts Center is a music school and multidisciplinary arts center in Rye, NY. It offers instruction and programming across music, visual arts, performance arts, dance, and STEAM, with fall workshops, classes, and a digital course catalog for students of all ages and skill levels. The center serves people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities, with specialized offerings for teens, Scout troops, school groups, adults, and seniors. It holds a rating of 4.80. The Rye Arts Center began in 1960 with five Rye families, an unused barn, and just over four hundred dollars. It has grown from makeshift classrooms into a fully realized, multidisciplinary arts campus. The organization is planning an expansion that includes a new building at 25 Milton Road, two acres of green space, and improvements to its home at 51 Milton Road. Gallery B, created by Jill Parry, hosts mini-shows for emerging and mid-career visual artists; Jill studied at Birmingham College of Art and the Slade School of Fine Arts in London, taught textile design in Papua New Guinea, ran a silk studio in London, and worked as a teaching artist with ArtsWestchester, where she received its 50 for 50 award. The center runs community programs including 26 weeks of art and music instruction each year for hundreds of Port Chester preschool children, a program established in 1981 that serves children aged 3 to 5 from October to May in painting, ceramics, mixed media, dance, music, singing, and storytelling. Its LOOK! program, offered since 1986 to area elementary schools including five in Port Chester, trains parent volunteers to teach children about artists from the 15th-century Arcimboldo to 20th-century sculptor Alexander Calder. The Rye Arts Center sits on Milton Road, about 0.1 miles from Boston Post Road and Rye Recreation Park, 0.2 miles from Blind Brook, Resurrection School, and Rye City Hall, and 0.3 miles from East Purchase Street. The Rye Arts Center has earned a positive rating from the customers who have reviewed it, reflecting its standing as a music school and arts center in Rye.