Ripple Effect, An Art Auction & Exhibition presented by SCRAP and Ruth's Table

Tickets are now on sale!

SCRAP and Ruth’s Table will be joining forces again in a fundraising auction and exhibition event. This year, we will be celebrating teaching artists—a group of educators that is central to both SCRAP’s and Ruth’s Table’s mission in providing creative opportunities for communities of all ages, identities, cultural backgrounds, and abilities.

Teaching artists are practicing artists who have dual careers as educators, providing a tangible link from the creative process to arts-based learning. In the arts education ecosystem, teaching artists are crucial to the success of creative students of all ages—including early education, elementary and high school, college and postgraduate studies, and older adult learners.

Ripple Effect is a celebration of teaching artists from the Bay Area who maintain exciting and enriching studio practices while also serving their community by sharing their knowledge and passion for artmaking. Often unseen, teaching artists’ labor is at the center of creating the next generation of artists, art appreciators, designers, and critical thinkers. As an arts community and society at large, we benefit immensely from these efforts and their invisible yet potent ripple effects. Ripple Effect celebrates the work that these teachers create inside their studios and offers us another way to connect with our teaching artist community.

Artworks available by

Jessalyn Aaland, Daniel Alvarado, Tana Quincy Arcega, David Bayus, JD Beltran, Lisa Cralle, Michelle Champlin, Mario Pires Cordeiro, Aiko Cuneo, Maya Djiji, Emily Gui, Lola Fraknoi, Mark Harris, Bec Imrich, Courtney Johnson, Pantea Karimi, Christina LaSala, Danielle Lawrence, Monica Lee, Andrew Mills, Barbara Pollak-Lewis, Mel Prest, Asako Shimazaki, Lisa Soloman, Lorna Stevens, Jennifer Stuart, Chris Thorson, Joanne Wang, Marcia Weisbrot, Jasper Wilde, Jun Yang, Maryam Yousif