The mission of The Creative Living Room ™ is to provide a creative arts space where families can come together to celebrate the arts, share, learn and grow, and in so doing, receive renewed energy, inspiration, and understanding to bring into their lives, their homes, and their communities.
Our goals are to:

• instill a life long love of the arts in children that is carried into adulthood

• nurture the creative connection in adults

• develop meaningful connections through the arts that enhance one’s life and relationships

• cultivate the parent/child bond

• build an art’s community around the family unit that serves the greater community

• capitalize on the diversity within our neighborhoods by promoting cultural exchange and awareness through the arts

• reach out through community service and partnerships, bringing the arts to underserved and underprivileged children and families

• provide a venue for teachers, artists, and performers to be creative, develop, and present their works

• At The Creative Living Room ™ we approach teaching from the point of view that children are born already full of creativity. It is our role to guide and facilitate their natural instincts by providing a loving, accepting environment where they can grow and flourish.

• When children are taught with an awareness and sensitivity to the profound connections between creativity and learning, these connections are like perennial seeds imbedded in a young child’s sense of being in the world that when nurtured with care continually sprout. The arts facilitate these creative connections naturally and can provide a dynamic foundation for physical, emotional, social and intellectual development. This foundation can carry them through their growing years with a sense of who they are and a feeling of being understood and appreciated.

• This is especially important in the later years when a teen’s sense of self is vulnerable. Our Living Room will be a ‘home away from home’ that celebrates the independent spirit and individual creativity of teens, helping them stay connected in a safe, positive and fun place that encourages freedom of expression in unexpected and exciting ways.