Art Spark

No Divide KC’s Art Spark is a community-based arts education program to provide Kansas City-area youth with high-quality programming that presents visual, literary and/or performing arts as an avenue for creative self-expression and emotional well-being.

Facilitators

Erik J. Pratt

A Clown's World: the joys & problems of focus

Nettie Zan

The Art of Mindfulness

Luke "Skippy" Harbur

No Words! Just Move!

Royce "Sauce" Handy

Deeper Than Rap

Rylan Scott Keeling

Poetry, Dialectics, and You: A Generative Workshop Series

Partners

Tyler’s House KC

Synergy Services

Amethyst Place

North KC School Distrcit

Platte County School District

Arts Entrepreneurship

Arts Entrepreneurship courses vary from a 12-week curriculum to 1 hour workshops focused on a single topic.

Goals and Outcomes for the program include:
1. Grow critical businesses skills, tools, resources and partnerships for our Creative work force to be more nimble, inspired, impactful, relevant and competitive.
2. Help participants create and maintain job opportunities, decrease their underemployment and increase revenue.
3. Teach Creatives and Entrepreneurs the tools needed to attain ‘a seat at the table’ with government, educational institutions and other community development sectors.
4. Educate other sectors about Creative Arts Industries and SocioCultural Entrepreneurship as critical components in innovative community development.
5. Activate networks and cooperative partnerships to further grow and support participants’ projects.
6. Broaden regional outreach, partnerships, constituents and professional providers.
7. Elevate the Creative Industries interconnection, communications and national profile.
8. Contribute, through arts and cultural businesses, to the economic vibrancy of the region.
9. Through more successful Creative Entrepreneurship, attract visitors, cultural tourism, audiences and further investments.
10. Deepen the understanding of the economic importance and impact of Creative Arts Industries. Give further opportunities to measure how the Creative Arts Industries impact economic/community development.

In partnership with InterUrban ArtHouse.