A place where anyone can make art.

Diana's idea

Diana grew up in Tensaw, a few miles up the road from here. She spent forty years in modern dance — choreographing it, performing it, and teaching it in the Wigman and Hawkins traditions — and she holds master's degrees in the arts in education and in Spanish literature.

Later she turned to painting, and opened the first Riverhouse Workshop on the St. Lucie River in Stuart, Florida. Then she brought it home, to the Mobile-Tensaw Delta in North Baldwin County where she started.

What she wanted was a space where artists of all levels can come to learn, grow, and create. Not a school you have to be good enough for — a community center where anyone can participate in the arts, with prices within reach and someone beside you who knows the work.

That is still what runs the place. Diana teaches performing arts here herself, and she spends her time helping artists find their own identity in the work, because making things belongs in an ordinary day. In time she would like longer workshops here, and artists from other parts of the world teaching alongside ours.