About Turtle Studios
Turtle Studios is an artist-run educational and cultural arts community, founded by artist and educator Kate Ransohoff. All of its activities are geared towards providing a place where people can make their own art.
By experimenting with traditional and nontraditional
materials, affiliate members and workshop participants experience the satisfactions and frustrations of creating
art the way they want it to be, in accordance with their
own values and aesthetics. While providing encouragement, technical help and guidance, coaches create
a non-competitive environment in which people learn to recognize and appreciate the integrity and value of their
own works, as well as that of others. We are a participatory democratic cooperative. Our existence as a studio derives from the belief that every person is a creator and that play liberates, illuminates and informs the creative spirit.

We share a belief
in four fundamental principals:
art making matters, the person matters,
meaning matters, and deep values matter.

" . . inside each of us there sits a most handsome creative seed bud . . . named Charley"

from Elijah's Palace,
by Kate Ransohoff