Creative Kids

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Our Story

Mission

Creative Kids Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational community-based art agency located in El Paso, Texas along the U.S./Mexico border region. Creative Kids is a nationally recognized non-profit organization that is dedicated to providing a high-quality youth development program utilizing the visual arts to empower youth.  Creative Kids is currently celebrating fifteen years of empowering the youth in our community through the arts.

Who we serve

Through a varied array of “hands-on” working assignments through the arts, Creative Kids is able to reach over 600 youth throughout the year through various programs housed under Creative Kids. This includes: disadvantaged youth through Project ABLE (Art Brokers Learning Experiences); children battling cancer through Project AIM (Arts in Motion); and children with disabilities through Project MAP (Making the Arts Possible). Creative Kids also offers program to the general public who may not fall under the programs listed above through both Project SAC (Saturday Arts Classes) and Little Picassos.

Creative Kids is brilliant, thrilling, inspiring, magnificent and life-changing. Watching young hospital patients painting with Stephen was a deeply moving experience that resonated more and more powerfully as I walked along the corridors of the hospital, seeing painting after painting that just knocked me out. Support Creative Kids and you can help make the world a more beautiful and more loving place.”
Christopher Rauschenberg- contemporary photographer; founder of Blue Sky Portland, Oregon.

2018-2019 Board of Directors

  • Ricky Nichols
    Board President
  • Kerran Fowlkes
    Vice President
  • Lorely Ambriz
    Secretary
  • Cynthia Piña
    Treasurer

Members at Large

  • Charlie Castillo
  • Tony Tomasheski
  • Gary Edens
  • Eddie Gutierrez
  • Beau Bagley

Creative Team

Underwriters

  • State of Texas – Office of Governor
  • Providence Children’s Hospital
  • Price’s Creameries
  • Rio Grande Cancer Foundation
  • El Paso Community Foundation
  • El Paso Electric Company
  • The Dues Foundation
  • The Hightower Foundation
  • Hunt Family Foundation
  • The Stern Foundation
  • Paso del Norte Health Foundation
  • Texas Women for the Arts
  • Best Buy Foundation
  • With the support of the City of El Paso Museum and Cultural Affairs Department, National Endowment for the Arts and Texas Commission on the Arts.

Recognition and Awards