EPIC Arts
EPIC Arts is a Denver school art program that empowers students to explore social emotional learning through their art practice.
What is EPIC Arts?
EPIC Arts strives to use art and mental health as a holistic experience in self discovery and advocacy.
EPIC Arts seeks to inspire youth to self advocate, discover their backgrounds, explore their place in their communities, connect with their peers, and explore social emotional learning through their art practice.
We believe that tending to students' mental health through art and SEL is an act of social justice, and can act as a catalyst in securing a strong sense of self in identity and community.
Our mental wellness and art facilitators work closely with classroom teachers and community center directors to learn about students’ behaviors and interests to create targeted interventions and curriculum.
“Through the EPIC project I was able to let my voice be heard.”
Which schools do we engage with our EPIC Arts program?
2022 Youth Art Exhibition
EPIC Arts serves multiple K-12 schools in the DPS and APS school districts, and has extended to serve local community centers that serve LGBTQ+ youth.
We’re currently collaborating with Boston K-12, Denver Green School, and Rainbow Alley’s LGBTQ teen drop in center.
EPIC Arts has existed successfully throughout the Denver Historic Neighborhood of Five Points for over a decade, and will continue to grow with the communities we engage.
Meet our 2024-2025 EPIC Arts Teachers
Rebecca Peebles
Rebecca Peebles (she/her) is an artist and creative practice facilitator in Denver, CO. She works primarily in textile methods and loves beadwork and wearable art. Through her artworks, art curation, community wellness programming and Home Safe Projects she creates setting and invites methods of making and witnessing artwork for domestic space wherein the transformative quality of hand-crafted art takes precedence over objectification. Artist(s) and participants can share in the work together and take advantage of the comfort of home to showcase the animating quality of art and craft’s soulful expression. Rebecca is proud to serve and support the mission of RedLine and to inspire creativity, build community, & advance equity through arts integration.
Instagram: @theonlyrebecca
Goals of the EPIC Arts Program
To use social justice focused art as a tool for expression and wellness while planting seeds to engage participants in personal growth and social advocacy.
EPIC strives to support local schools and community organizations by sharing the healing and stress relief properties of using art as a creative outlet, a mode of communication/activism and outlet for self care.
To support participants in teaching experiential, concept-driven art making.
2022 Youth Art Exhibition
Discover the inspiration and history behind RedLine’s Morris & Joyce Price Art Bank and how it helps Denver artists explore and thrive!
Past EPIC Arts Exhibitions
2022 Annual Youth Art Exhibition
May 21-June 2, 2022
This exhibition was a culmination of art from youth who participated in RedLine’s Youth Art Mentoring and EPIC Arts Education programs.
Students reflected on topics pertaining to social justice and advocacy, shedding light on issues they deemed important. There were a diverse mediums that inspired viewers to learn more about these issues and think critically about their experiences from a different perspective.
Youth were encouraged to be agents of change in their communities.
2021 Annual Youth Art Exhibition: EMPOWERMENT
May 29th - June 27th, 2021
2021’s exhibition was a culmination of in-person and virtual work from students at Arts Street, The Academy of Urban Learning, Bruce Randolph, Joliet Learning Center, Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy, McMeen Elementary School, and Mrachek.
EPIC Arts Spring 2020 Exhibition & Virtual Showcase
Spring 2020
Coronavirus may have shut down our way of life, but it has not shut down our voices.
EPIC Arts Spring 2020 Exhibition comes to you in a time of global panic.
Most things are uncertain, but the work of these courageous students is a testament to the future.
Featuring work by the students of The Academy of Urban Learning, Bruce Randolph, Joliet Learning Center, Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy, Lowry Elementary School, and McMeen Elementary School.
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Support for EPIC Arts
RedLine would like to thank The Addy Foundation, Caring for Denver Foundation, Colorado Health Foundation, Margulf Foundation, Strear Family Foundation, Sidney E. Frank Foundation, and SCFD for their generous support of our EPIC Arts program.
