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OFFROUTE ART
  • breaks down barriers between art and accessibility
  • supports artists from all backgrounds who are driven to create original pieces of art part-time, full-time, or sometimes
  • build connections among artists themselves and between artists and a broader audience
OFFROUTE has two areas of focus.
OFFROUTE'S AFFORDABLE ART STORE:
  • Supports emerging artists from all backgrounds and identities by giving them another platform to connect to a wider audience.
  • Encourages young artists (ages 16 - 24) to view and pursue art in individualized ways that fit their values and lifestyles. Young artists receive 100% of the profits from their art sales.
  • Invites the public to connect with affordable, original art.
  • Reminds buyers that a person is on the other side of their art by including an artist statement with each purchase.

OUR COMMITMENT TO THE ENVIRONMENT
We do our best to reduce our footprint and reuse materials as much as possible. That's when you receive a package from Offroute, it is most likely wrapped in reused or donated materials. We hope you can reuse these materials as well, or at least recycle them.*
*Reuse is any activity that lengthens the life of an item. Recycling is the reprocessing of an item into a new raw material.
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As we grow, we will continue to make decisions with the environment and reducing our impact, at the forefront. 
OFFROUTE'S COMMITMENT TO THE ARTS COMMUNITY:
  • Art Supplies. Once a month, Offroute's young artists can apply to receive $50 worth of art supplies in our mid-month raffle. Since May 2020, Offroute had given away half a dozen gift cards, a plein air easel, and a tabletop straightedge easel plus a box of supplies!
  • In-person art. Since January 2020, we represent our artists at safe, pop up events including the Harlem Makers Collective and I Made It Market! We have also created an art display at the 61C Cafe in Pittsburgh, PA.
  • Trivia Nights. Since April 2020, every second Saturday of the month, we offer a free trivia night that is open to the first 100 people who sign up! We give out prizes and a wide audience across the US (from Honolulu to Burlington!) learns more about Offroute.
  • Artist Panels and Interviews. In December 2020, Offroute hosted its first "Ask Us Anything" panel. Two practicing artists answered an array of questions from, how do you price your art to how to you stay motivated to finish a piece. We will continue hosting these talks as well as interviews with artists who are using their art to weigh in on the social issues of our time. 
  • Art Critique coming soon! (expected February 2020)
If you are interested in becoming a community or school partner, or donor, please contact us.

If you have new or used art supplies that you would like to donate, please email offrouteart@gmail.com.

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READ MORE BELOW ABOUT THE FRAMEWORKS ​ON WHICH OFFROUTE ART HAS BUILT ITS VALUES:

"Community Weaving fosters a vibrant grassroots web, which builds and bridges social capital between individuals, among group members, and across community systems. The result is an intricate patchwork of conscientious citizens functioning interdependently with one another and formal systems, in order to mend the tears in the social fabric caused by fragmentation and shifts in the cultural, economic, and political climate. Given time, the beneficent presence and dynamic activity of Community Weaving changes the culture of community and transforms lives."
​          -Cheryl Honey


"Coherence directs our attention to the stories that we tell that make our lives meaningful. Its opposite is something like vertigo, a loss of orientation. Mystery directs our attention to the fact that the universe is far bigger and subtler than any possible set of stories that we might develop. Whatever we think, there’s more to it than that; it’s not a riddle to be solved but a mystery to explore. These maxims for making better social worlds can be derived from the concepts of coherence and mystery:
• Treat all stories, your own as well as others, as incomplete, unfinished, biased, and inconsistent.
• Treat your own stories as “local,” dependent on your own perspective, history, and purposes.
• Treat stories that differ from your own as “valid” within the framework of the other person’s perspective, history, and purposes.
• Be curious about other people’s stories.
​          -Barnett Pearce
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"an unexpected result of restorative practices in business has proved to be an enhanced sense of community. In addition to protecting a company’s human capital from the competition, social bonds and improved relationships fostered by restorative practices within an organization create an environment that supports the learning and change demanded by the new knowledge economy."
          -Ted Wachtel