CREATE COMMUNITY STUDIOS

Who We Are

CREATE COMMUNITY STUDIOS

Our Mission

Our Impact

We help community members feel safe and connected in their social emotional growth and mental health journey, by making therapeutic expressive arts affordable and accessible to people of ALL AGES and abilities.


C.R.E.A.T.E. Community Studios is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit dedicated to providing a space where the benefits of art-making impact both the individual and the community as a whole. We offer low-cost art workshops and groups, community wellness activities, and open studios to promote art-making and the creative process as a vehicle for personal growth, communication, and social change. We believe that the beneficial experience of art-making should be affordable and accessible to everyone.

Our goal is to use expressive arts as an equalizer across cultural and economic barriers, and for participants to learn how to use art as an expressive medium to increase their general well-being. We focus on the process of the art-making, not the product.

CREATE COMMUNITY STUDIOS

The Operations of C.R.E.A.T.E.

Staff

CREATE COMMUNITY STUDIOS

Board Members

President

  • Melanie Puorto Conte, LMHC


Vice President

  • Kimberly Jefferson, MA, CCC, SLP


Treasurer

  • Tambra Estill


Secretary

  • Julie Betts

Directors

  • Jerrilynn Matthews
  • Jennifer Horn. LCAT, ATR
  • Epiphany McGee
  • Ariel White
  • Danielle Everetts
  • Rachel Berggren
  • ObaRoEne Otitigbe


* C.R.E.A.T.E. Community Studios does not provide Art Therapy services.*

If you are interested in Art Therapy, you may find more information at: The American Art Therapy Association. New York State: Office of the Professions

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