Creative Action Blog

Unlike many of our Teaching Artists, Faustinus Deraet’s relationship with art did not start at a young age. In fact, it started at the unlikeliest…

Rachael Osgood is a teen in our Color Squad Collective, where she helps design and paint murals that address community issues. On May 19, she…

Amy Averett and her family have been involved with Creative Action since her son Walter experienced our interactive performance, Courage to Stand, in the fourth…

Last year, Creative Action embarked on a partnership with developer Brookfield Residential to create a piece of fun, engaging, and ultimately interactive art at their…

Austin, Texas is a city that appreciates a good mural. As an organization that appreciates an art-loving community, our Color Squad teen program combines the…

Guest post by Free Minds. The Free Minds Project provides Austin-area adults living on limited incomes with a chance to explore their intellectual potential. Creative…

Each year, Color Squad, the young civic-minded visual artists of our teen programs, tackle a social issue -- researching it and turning it over and…

Cecil Lockwood, also known as Mr. Cee, grew up creating art. It started with pencil drawings of his favorite musicians -- Biggie and Aaliyah --…

[slideshow_deploy id='16895']   So many people contribute to the work we do at Creative Action. One of those people is Ms. Vivalyn Jones, a volunteer…