MAKING CREATIVITY
ACCESSIBLE TO
EVERY BODY
Engaging communities in need of connection with various creative projects.
WHAT WE DO
TEAMBUILDING Workshops
We facilitate creative workshops for corporates and individuals to reignite their creative spark.
KIDS WORKSHOPS
We bring creative experiences to children who might have limited access, including refugee children and those with additional access needs.
Art is Home “Homes”
We offer affordable creative spaces and artist studios to foster creative growth and collaboration.
“FRENS!” COMMUNITY
We host free events and workshops for our โFRENS!โ community, which brings together a diverse group of individuals from all walks of life.
IT’S REALLY QUITE SIMPLE
We create safe spaces and tailored support so individuals can explore their passions through creative flow.
We envision a future where art empowers people to feel at home within themselves and connected to others.
We design inclusive art experiences that spark connection, inspiration, and a sense of home.
Know of a group that would flourish with a dose of creativity? Reach out to us!
OUR 2025 SOCIAL HANDPRINT
Art is Home is a social enterprise dedicated to building connection through the creative arts. Our activities support several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a projected impact value of โฌ63,000 in 2025 – over 155% of our revenue.
Through workshops, team days, and social impact projects, we foster community, inclusion, and international collaboration. Explore how we contribute to goals like Quality Education, Good Health and Well-being, and Reduced Inequalities.
Estimated impact
value
โฌ63,000
Compared to revenue
(incl. donations and Subsidies)
155.73%
Impact value per FTE
(paid and voluntary)
โฌ24,000
CASE STUDIES
Friendship at the
sketch table
KUNSTMAATJES
All you can Art 2024
IBB RADIO
Sketchbook club
Home in transit exhibition
ZOMERSKL RADIO
INHOLLAND TEAMBUILDING
THE KHAN FAMILY: A Story of Hope and Rediscovery
BRINGING HOME TO REFUGEE BOATS
CREATIVE Workshops
THE FRENS TABLE (DINNER & Open studio)
When:ย 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th September.
Mondays from 18:00-21:00
Where? Art is Home Studios, Hillevliet 90, room 0.08, 3074 KD, Rotterdam Zuid.
What: Open studio. Just food, friends & making art together.
A space for our community to share, experiment and eat together. Everyoneโs welcome โ whether youโre just starting out or a seasoned artist, all ages and backgrounds are invited!
Bring your own creative project and any art supplies you love. Got some abandoned supplies? Bring them to share! Weโll have some materials available too.
Community dinner and event on a donation basis.
No sign up needed โ just drop by!
THE FRENS TAKEOVER (Guided workshops)
On Thursday evenings, one of our FRENS takes over the studio and invites you into their creative world. Expect playful experiments, new techniques, and creative explorations – from painting to performance, collage to sound, and everything in between.
Come as you are, bring your curiosity, and make something together with us.
Consider the Weeds
with Suzanna de Ridder – Studio Space Cadet
Thursday 4th September
19:00 โ 21:00
Art is Home Hillevliet Studios
Suzanna de Ridder (she/her) is a visual artist and illustrator working under the name Studio Space Cadet. Through illustration, visual poetry, workshops and public interventions, she explores hope, ecological kinship and the transformative power of collective imagination. In her work, the everyday and the dreamlike intertwine, inviting people to imagine more caring, connected, and life-affirming futures. Working with watercolour, gouache, pencil, and ink, she embraces the unpredictability of her materials, allowing chance to become an active part of the stories she tells.
What would the dandelion or the stinging nettles you pass on your way to work every morning say if they could speak? What could they teach us about surviving (and thriving) under less than ideal conditions?
In this narrative workshop, we will explore the resilience of weeds, observe the wild urban nature around
De Hillevliet, learn about the different weed species and reflect on our own relationship with our environment.
We will record our personal observations using drawing, text, painting or collage and create a small leporello zine.
No specific skills neccesary, just an open mind and excitement to learn from our weedy fellow Rotterdammers!
No experience or sign-up needed.
English & Dutch | Pay what you can
De schaamte voorbij / Beyond the shame
with Ellen Verheij – Kaleidra Studio
Thursday 10th September
19:00 โ 21:00
Art is Home Hillevliet Studios
Ellen Verheij is a Rotterdam based urban social designer and developer of the project Bakkie Taboe: an interactive installation that invites visitors to share stories and experiences around sexuality, pleasure, shame, and taboo. These contributions are part of the interactive installation that makes hidden experiences visible, while gathering insights that can help challenge stigma and support greater sexual autonomy and social safety.
During this workshop, we research together how your thinking and behaviour are influenced and moderated by shame and taboos. Together, we imagine a futuristic world without any shame; what would that look like?
Write your story: In the other part of this workshop, we guide you to write down your own story. How have you been shaped by shame? Is there an event from your life, or a moment where you outgrew a certain shame?
No experience or sign-up needed.
English & Dutch | Pay what you can
Prompten is geen kunst / Prompting is not an art form
with Honza Svasek
Thursday 17th September
19:00 โ 21:00
Art is Home Hillevliet Studios
With AI, you can create exactly the image you have in your head in a matter of seconds. But is that art?
In this workshop, weโre doing things differently. Weโll create images using a local AI model, print them out, cut them up and work together to build physical collages from them. Along the way, weโll let chance, materials, other people and the AI have their say.
It isnโt a single perfect prompt that determines the result. Art arises precisely from the interplay between different creators, techniques, mistakes, choices and surprises.
Prompts are just the start. Then the creating begins.
No experience or sign-up needed.
English & Dutch | Pay what you can
KUNSTMAATJES WEST
When: Every Saturday during school term, 14:00 – 15:15 & 15:30 – 16:45.
Where? Buurthuiskamer De Diamant, Bospolderstraat 39B, 3025 ET Rotterdam.
What: An art club for kids with additional access needs.
- Led by an experienced facilitator and artist, specialized in working with children with special needs.
- Open to children aged 6 and up, all levels welcome!
- Small groups (max. 10 children) for personal attention and a safe environment.
- A space to explore, play, and create together through art.
- Sessions take place every Saturday during the school term at two locations.
- Participation is on a donation basis (suggested contribution โฌ10 per session).
Apply below to enrol your child!
KUNSTMAATJES ZUID
When: Every Saturday during school term, 12:00 – 13:15.
Where? Art is Home Studios, Hillevliet 90, room 0.08, 3074 KD, Rotterdam Zuid.
What: Kunstmaatjes is an art club for children with and without special needs, designed to be fun, inclusive, and supportive.
- Led by an experienced facilitator and artist, specialized in working with children with special needs.
- Open to children aged 6 and up, all levels welcome!
- Small groups (max. 10 children) for personal attention and a safe environment.
- A space to explore, play, and create together through art.
- Sessions take place every Saturday during the school term at two locations.
- Participation is on a donation basis (suggested contribution โฌ10 per session).
Apply below to enrol your child!
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