One River School of Art + Design Gift & Greeting Card

Business Description

Music and art seem to run together for a lot of people and this is clearly the case for One River School Founder Matt Ross. After 20 years as an executive in the radio industry, Matt became an investor and the Founding CEO for the School of Rock. At that time in 2005, School of Rock was a fledgling startup with a handful of schools and five years later when Ross left, the School of Rock was the largest network of music schools in the world.

After leaving School of Rock, Ross compared the state of art education to the state of music education prior to the expansion of School of Rock. It appeared that the two were virtually the same: there were very few innovative art schools near his home in New Jersey and throughout suburbs across America. Thus began the start of a personal mission that Matt has been on since the fall of 2011. Matt says: "It seems to me that the most relevant and important thing I can do is to help people grow creatively."

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