For more than 40 years, Center for the Creative Arts has been a vital gathering space within the local community, offering quality visual and performing arts programming for all ages and abilities.

Our Mission

The mission of the Center for the Creative Arts is to transform, inspire, and enrich the lives of people of all ages and abilities through the arts.

our vision

The Center for the Creative Arts is a community arts center devoted to art enrichment for people of all ages and abilities. We strive to make the arts accessible to as many people as possible, because we believe that the arts are essential for human development and academic success and for enriching our culture as a whole.

OUR WORK

CCArts aims to create and maintain programming which meets people where they are, a notion that is carried throughout all that we do. Whether it be the flexibility of our teaching artists; who structure their curriculum around the needs and interests of their students or the implementation of free and low cost affinity space offerings, providing opportunities for all people is a key facet of our community’s culture. 

Every year, CCArts offers 4 semesters of educational arts programming for all ages and skill levels, a 10 week-long youth visual and performing arts summer camp, and hosts a variety of exciting events that platform local artists, craftspeople, and musicians/performers alike. We also offer a wide variety of services including private lessons, building rentals, and birthday parties.

Beyond the walls of our facility on Upper Snuff Mill Row, we also operate an array of arts outreach programs. Each semester, CCArts’ teaching artists are sent to instruct art activities at local schools, libraries, and senior living facilities. Through these residencies, CCArts brings arts programming directly to the source. Ultimately bridging the gap of accessible arts programming for people across the region.

CCArts has taken considerable action to increase accessible programming for participants within underserved populations on its own campus as well. Within the past several semesters alone, CCArts has piloted several affinity space programs specifically designed for these communities, including but not limited to: low income families, LGBTQIA+ folx, Deaf and hard of hearing youth, and individuals with physical, cognitive, and learning disabilities.

Since its founding in 1979, CCArts has maintained a supportive and passionate creative community which has only continued to grow.