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Palos Verdes Magazine: Celebrating 25 Years of Creativity with The Art Box Academy

Palos Verdes Magazine: Celebrating 25 Years of Creativity with The Art Box Academy The Art Box Academy's 25 Year Celebration in featured in PV Magazine

On June 21, 2025, The Art Box Academy marked a remarkable milestone—25 years of bringing art to life in Palos Verdes. This vibrant anniversary event, hosted at their Rolling Hills Estates studio, brought together families, educators, and budding artists for a day filled with inspiration and imagination with art stations and activities bursting with fun. The gallery you’re […]

Los Angeles Times: B2B Inspirational Women’s Awards

Los Angeles Times: B2B Inspirational Women’s Awards Inspirational Women Awards from LA Times

Lauren Dennis-Perelmuter Founder/CEO THE ART BOX ACADEMY AND ART TO GROW ON CHILDREN’S ART CENTER, INC. Lauren Dennis-Perelmuter officially launched The Art Box Academy in the spring of 2020 as she saw an immense need to ensure children and students who were home due to the pandemic and school closures still had access to handson […]

UCLA Health: Art is part of the healing process for patients at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital

UCLA Health: Art is part of the healing process for patients at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital

During the pandemic, while otherwise isolated, children found shared joy through Art Boxes. Patients at Mattel Children’s Hospital got to spend some creative time together on Zoom with Art Boxes from The Art Box Academy. (Photo by Joshua Sudock/UCLA Health) Early in life, Lauren Dennis-Perelmuter found her passion in the totality of the arts. She […]

ShoutoutLA: Meet Founder and CEO The Art Box Academy

ShoutoutLA: Meet Founder and CEO The Art Box Academy

We had the good fortune of connecting with Lauren Dennis-Perelmuter and we’ve shared our conversation below. Hi Lauren, how does your business help the community? The Art Box Academy is truly dedicated to helping children develop Life Essential Skills through our Art and Activity Boxes, Art Lesson Packets and Bundles and even our Fairy Box […]

Peninsula People Magazine and Easy Reader: Art Box Academy offers Home Art Instruction

Peninsula People Magazine and Easy Reader: Art Box Academy offers Home Art Instruction

With the start of the pandemic distance learning, Lauren Dennis-Perelmuter recognized a need for art lessons. Distance learning caused schools to scale back art classes, despite studies showing art improves math skills, vocabulary, fine motor skills and critical thinking. And creating art brings joy. To bring art lessons to distance learning, Dennis-Perelmuter created Art Box […]

Illustration of Lauren Dennis-Perelmuter, The Art Box Academy

Lauren Dennis-Perelmuter

FOUNDER & CEO

Lauren has been immersed in the arts for as long as she can remember, earning her B.A. in Fine Art from the University of California, Santa Barbara, her degree in Textile Design from Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design and attended the University of Paris, France for immersive Art History Programs held at the renowned Musee D’Orsay Museum.

Lauren is forever grateful to so many who have supported her along the way, encouraging her to create her vision.

Having been given creative platforms and opportunities not only as a young child, but as a professional, Lauren has gained tremendous insight, knowledge and education that developing the creative mind is essential to thrive in today’s ever changing world. 

Lauren knows that every child has magic and talent within. Her mission, along with her extraordinary team, is to create platforms for children to find their own creative amazing selves.