Richland Academy of the Arts was founded in 1991 as a non-profit community multi-arts center. Over the last 31 years, it has served the Mansfield community and expanded its arts education programs to encompass music, dance, visual art, theater, and martial arts. Richland Academy of the Arts strives to be a place where quality arts education is accessible to all ages regardless of financial limitations.

Richland Academy of the Arts offers over $19,000 in scholarships and financial assistance annually to qualifying families who participate in the Academy’s arts programs. Richland Academy believes that creativity exists in everyone and aims to guide all students into a successful lifelong journey in the arts.

Richland Academy of the Arts continues to build its arts programming with community partnerships and collaborations and helps drive economic development in the downtown Mansfield area. Richland Academy of the Arts’ mission is to foster, through artistic expression, the creative potential that exists in everyone to enrich the lives of our neighborhoods, our community, and the world at large.

“Richland Academy… where anyone can explore the artist within,” is located at the corner of 4th and N Walnut St. and is supported by the Ohio Arts Council and the Richland County Foundation.