mission statement ::
citizensCREATE! is a non-profit encouraging "We the People" to explore creative necessity, thereby stimulating individual and collective vitality. The organization is committed to the public's innate desire to create and collaborate, which is essential to achieving and sustaining community prosperity.
we are aligned with these core principles ::
- foster creative community through interactive public projects
- enable artistic performance and display by citizens
- support arts education and awareness
some things that make us unique ::
- versatile, mobile entity
- minimal red-tape, low overhead
- focused on bringing art opportunities to the general and underserved population
- focused on generating social capital through creative collaboration
- desire to bridge the underground / above-ground art divide
- ability to intermingle people of various age, race, politic, & economic status
various facts about citizensCREATE! ::
- incorporated with 501(c)(3) status in November 2004
- based in Lexington and serving the Greater Bluegrass Area
- all volunteer board serving no more than 4 annual terms consecutively
- facilitated over 30 public art projects to date
- all artworks virtually 100% passer-by created
- each project attract between 30 to 300 participants
- press in Herald Leader, Advocate Messenger, KY Sunrise, Nougat, etc.
2010 board of directors ::
Pat Attkisson
Angel Clark
John Kirkland (treasurer)
Melissa Newton (chair)
Kevin Sweeney (secretary)
