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The mission of the Center for Creative Education is to create a better world by nurturing and empowering youth and community through the arts.
The Center for Creative Education’s impact in the community is wide and deep. Since its inception in 1992, CCE has engaged thousands of youth to realize their dreams through arts and technology-based educational programming. Our kids find purpose and autonomy through mastery in diverse disciplines including dance, drum, electronic music composition, spoken word, theater, video production, visual arts and computers. Our kids learn life-long skills such as collaboration, interpersonal communication, focus, discipline and persistence.
CCE is home to the Percussion Orchestra of Kingston (POOK) and the award-winning Energy Dance Companies (Energy, Energizers and Energy Elite).
In addition, the Center has provided in-school and after-school arts education programming at J. Watson Bailey and M. Clifford Miller Middle Schools; George Washington, John F. Kennedy, Harry L. Edson, Ernest C. Myer and Robert Graves Elementary Schools and Kingston High School.
CCE’s latest arts-in-education collaboration is the Carnegie Program, set to open in the Fall of 2011. The Carnegie is the result of nearly ten years of planning and collaboration between CCE and the Kingston City School District. The Carnegie will feature two newly created “small learning communities”: The 21st Century Media Team and Project Global. In addition to supporting the teachers in the Carnegie program, CCE will host a diverse array of arts and technology programs in this beautiful new space.
Stephen Gilman, education director for the Center for Creative Education; Maureen Bowers, Kingston City School District Board of Education member; Andrew Sheber, assistant principal at Kingston High School; Ev Mann, executive director of the Center for Creative Education; James Shaughnessy, president of the Kingston City School District Board of Education; Gerard Gretzinger, Superintendent of Schools for the Kingston City School District; Adrian Manuel, Principal of Kingston High School; and Katie Hite, president of the Board of Directors for the Center for Creative Education celebrate the grand opening of the Carnegie Learning Center.
