The Community Arts Program (CAP)

CAP is the arts education outreach program of The Creatives Project. TCP's Studio Artist Residents complete their community outreach requirement through this program. TCP provides students, teachers, and communities with direct hands-on arts experiences through personal interaction with artists. TCP encourages each artist to explore his/her discipline with students, teachers, and community members through a variety of components that may include workshops, classes, lectures and discussions, rehearsals, performances, community events, and mentorship.

For the 2026-2027 residency cycle, TCP is partnering with ChopArt, an organization that promotes dignity, community, and opportunity for middle and high school–aged youth experiencing homelessness through multidisciplinary arts immersion and mentorship.

Artists in the cohort lead ChopArt’s Creative Toolkit, a trauma-informed visual arts program designed specifically for these youth. Throughout the residency, TCP artists work closely with ChopArt teens through hands-on workshops in photography, collage, clay, portraiture, and experimental making practices. More than art instruction, these sessions became spaces for self-expression, confidence-building, collaboration, and community care.

The outreach culminates with Dual Concepts, a teen art exhibition presented by ChopArt in partnership with Atlanta Mission My Sister’s House, and The Creatives Project. The exhibition highlights the incredible work created by teens alongside TCP resident artists.

The exhibition will feature photography, painting, collage, and ceramic works created by the students over the course of the program. For many of the teens involved, Dual Concepts represents the first time their work is being publicly exhibited and offered for sale. We hope you’ll join us in celebrating their creativity, supporting their voices, and helping us fill the room with encouragement and community - every cent from art sales goes directly back to the teens.

YOUTH:

We aim to develop arts/music education programming specifically for highly under served neighborhoods in Metro Atlanta by offering CAP programming to schools, community centers and neighborhoods with very high concentrations of children living in low income situations who may also have disabilities or other developmental delays. In conjunction with the Board of Education, these programs aim to help students develop a creative voice. It is our belief that by giving children an opportunity to explore vairious means of expression, they will become better equipped to face life’s challenges.

In conjunction with the educational program, a mentorship program has been developed to pair artists with at-risk youth, providing support and guidance for children to explore creative passions, ultimately building strong relationships that positively impact children's lives.

ADULT:

We aim to develop arts/music education programming specifically for our community at large through the creation and implementation of an adult education program consisting of studio classes, workshops, lectures, and open studio visits conducted by CCHP residents.

This program utilizes the talents and special skills of all TCP artist in residency program participants as each is required to give back to their local community through arts based outreach. We continue to develop our educational programs with the above goals in mind.

IMPACT:

Since 2011, TCP has presented dozens of exhibitions and served nearly 70 artists through residency opportunities who have volunteered thousands of arts service hours to help hundreds of underserved youth and seniors realize their creative dreams through one-on-one professional artist mentorship.

TCP's beneficiary organizations have included a number of area neighborhoods and schools, One Love Generation, VSA Arts of Georgia, Street Smart Youth Project, Blueprint 58, Paint Love, Big Bethel AME Church, Operation P.E.A.C.E. and Columbia Residential. (CLICK THE LINKS FOR IMAGE GALLERIES)