We are all equally artists – creativity has a place in everyone’s life, including yours.

Open Studio Project (OSP) is a non-profit arts and social services organization in Evanston, Illinois. We provide unique, stimulating, powerful programming combining art-making and writing, with a special emphasis on using the creative arts to inspire personal growth, interpersonal understanding, and positive social change.

Our mission is to bring art directly to individuals for personal growth, social-emotional learning, and community well-being.

Through workshops & classes, gallery exhibits , and especially community partnerships , we promote the power of using art-making as a safe and reliable medium for personal growth and exploration. More specifically, our goal is for participants to learn how to turn to their own creativity in order to increase self-awareness, empathy, and clarity in transitional times. Specific issues for some of our participants have included life-goal clarification, career changes, illness, bereavement, and managing feelings of hopelessness and anger during adolescence and adulthood.