We support the academic, social and emotional development of young people.

Through interactive classroom performances, after school arts residencies and community-based programs, Creative Action’s team of professional Teaching Artists inspire youth to be creative artists, courageous allies, critical thinkers, and confident leaders in their community.

Our Philosophy

Learning should be fun, colorful, engaging, hands-on, involve questions and experiential. Education is a dynamic and reciprocal process where everyone, including the teacher, is learning together and ideas and discussion flourish as we collectively develop knowledge.

Creativity is a spark that sets new ideas in motion. The creative arts nurture both critical AND creative thinking–skills that set the stage for innovation. You find inspiration, imagine something, and then create it. Then, others see it, hear it, experience it…and in it they find inspiration, imagine something new, and then create it.

Art is essential to personal development in the 21st Century. The arts require imagination, vision, critical thinking, and determination – and therefore gives us opportunities to shape our own identity, empathize and connect with others, grow a deep interest in the world around us, and contribute to making the world a better place.

Select Awards

2012 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, President’s Committee on the Arts

Finalist for the Ford Foundation “Space for Change”

Twice recognized by the Del Valle Independent School District for “Outstanding Service” and “Big Things Come in Small Packages”

Manor ISD “After School Provider of the Year” 2010

United Way Capital Area Youth Program Quality Award 2011

Austin Chronicle Critic’s Pick for Best of Austin: Creativity Unleashers, 2012

Twice runner up in the Greenlights Service Excellence in Collaboration

Esthetics Award from Livable City, 2009

Impact Austin 2012 Culture Award ($103,000 prize) for services to incarcerated youth

Karen LaShelle, Executive Director: 2011 “Austin Under 40” award in the Arts and Culture category; Finalist for the 2012 Ernst and Young Social Entrepreneur of the Year

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