Art Spark

 
 
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Creativity & Community

Art Spark is an arts program for No Divide KC’s partners, designed to explore creativity, self-expression, and connection through interactive workshops and collaborative art experiences. Whether your community if full with seasoned artists or just beginning to explore their creative side, Art Spark provides a supportive space to experiment, learn, and grow.

Through hands-on activities across various artistic mediums—visual arts, performance, music, poetry, and more—participants engage in meaningful conversations, explore personal narratives, and create impactful works of art.

Art Spark emphasizes accessibility and empowerment by bringing people together to share stories and express themselves, we help build an engaged arts community.


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.