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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 positively impact specific populations of children in the communities we serve through purposeful visual art education.

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.

2020-2021 Board of Directors


  • Charlie Castillo
    Board President
  • Vanessa Leon
    Vice President
  • Lorely Ambriz
    Secretary
  • Cynthia Piña
    Treasurer

Members at Large

  • JJ Childress
  • Arianna Rodriguez

Creative Team


  • Andrea Gates-Ingle
    Executive Director/Co-Founder
    andrea@creativekidsart.org
  • Stephen Ingle
    Creative Director/Co-Founder
    stephen@creativekidsart.org
  • Oscar Camargo
    Creative Director for Technology and Digital Media
    oscar@creativekidsart.org
  • Ana Aburto
    Teaching Artist
    ana@creativekidsart.org
  • Sylvia Lara
    Teaching Artist
  • Gabriela Galindez
    Teaching Artist
    gabriela@creativekidsart.org
  • Eric Albarado
    Gallery Assistant

Underwriters


  • State of Texas – Office of Governor
  • Providence Children’s Hospital
  • 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
  • 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


  • Creative Kids receives the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities Youth Program Award from First lady Michelle Obama.
  • Creative Kids Project AIM Nationally-Recognized as a Best-Practice model from National Endowment for the Arts
  •  Creative Kids Project ABLE named as a Best-Practice Model from Texas A&M

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504 San Francisco St.
El Paso, TX 79901
915-533-9575
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