The Creative Center

The Creative Center Dedicated to bringing the creative arts to people living with cancer, chronic illness, caregivers and older adults.

🎨✨ Last week, The Creative Center gathered an amazing group of volunteers to assemble over 150 Art-to-Go Kits—each one a...
07/15/2025

🎨✨ Last week, The Creative Center gathered an amazing group of volunteers to assemble over 150 Art-to-Go Kits—each one a powerful way to bring creativity and comfort into medical settings across NYC.

These kits offer patients, families, and hospital staff a chance to pause, reflect, and connect through art. Our Hospital Artists-In-Residence will be delivering them to hospitals throughout the city, spreading joy and healing through creative expression.

Want to join the fun?
We’re making more kits and would love your help. Come volunteer with us and help bring moments of beauty and care to those who need it most.

A huge THANK YOU to our incredible volunteers—you make this all possible!

Register here: https://bit.ly/44RM7KP

Discover the Joy of Art-Making—Every Day, Free of Charge!Did you know that The Creative Center art workshop program bega...
07/01/2025

Discover the Joy of Art-Making—Every Day, Free of Charge!

Did you know that The Creative Center art workshop program began over 30 years ago as a series of art workshops for women with cancer?

Today, we offer free daily art workshops—both in-person and online—for people living with cancer, chronic illness, and caregivers. Our workshops invite participants to explore the creative and technical sides of art-making, with classes in painting, drawing, crochet, jewelry-making, creative writing, movement, photography, playwriting, sculpture, and so much more.

Led by professional teaching artists with diverse backgrounds and expertise, such as Yunmee Kyong whose Bird on a Branch workshop is featured here, these sessions are designed to inspire creativity, build community, and offer moments of reflection and joy.

We’re proud to offer this programming thanks to the generous support of the Robin Mindy Glassman Memorial Fund and our incredible community of donors. Learn more about our art workshop program and join our community to register for workshops.
Interested in becoming a community member? Register here: https://bit.ly/479RAMU

✨ Still feeling the impact of FAMILIAR TOUCHThank you to everyone who joined us on Saturday. The Creative Center was pro...
06/24/2025

✨ Still feeling the impact of FAMILIAR TOUCH

Thank you to everyone who joined us on Saturday. The Creative Center was proud to co-present this screening with Arts & Minds and filmmaker, Sarah Friedland (). This powerful film invited us into the worlds of aging, memory loss, caregiving, and touch—and reminded us how art can hold it all.

FAMILIAR TOUCH is part of an intergenerational filmmaking project that combines creative aging workshops with a professional film set—centering older adults as co-authors of their own unique, deeply personal, and anti-ageist story.

If you weren’t able to make it on Saturday, don’t worry—you still have a chance to catch it. You can see FAMILIAR TOUCH via at through July 3rd—and older adults and their caregivers can receive FREE Companion tickets.

Find out more about Companion Tickets and showtimes at link in bio.

Create a theater piece based on our true stories.In this workshop, we will reflect on and share stories from our own lif...
06/11/2025

Create a theater piece based on our true stories.

In this workshop, we will reflect on and share stories from our own life experiences through guided oral, written, and community-building exercises that celebrate the roles of identity, place, and belonging in our lives. What we create will surprise us, affect us, and shape where we go next.
Stories Toward a Beloved Community
Facilitated by: C. Meranda Flachs-Surmanek
Virtual on ZOOM
Mondays, July 7, 14, 21, and 28
1:00 - 3:00 PM EDT
Community members can register here: https://forms.gle/ddKwkEbdEAJD8qEj8
Interested in becoming a community member? Register here: https://bit.ly/479RAMU

Be part of a special collaboration between The Creative Center and our neighbors at the International Center of Photogra...
06/09/2025

Be part of a special collaboration between The Creative Center and our neighbors at the International Center of Photography!

Explore ICP’s exhibitions and create mixed media artworks responding to the themes in the exhibition. Focused on new ways to feel and engage with photography, this workshop will encourage participants to rethink the impact that their images can have on the world.

Making Change: Art-making inspired by our relationship to Nature
Facilitated by: Carlos Nunez
In-person @ ICP 84 Ludlow Street
Tuesdays, July 8, 15, 22 and 29
12:00 - 2:00 PM EDT
Community members can register here: https://forms.gle/gpqjE3VEnLLAFv5KA

Interested in becoming a community member? Register here: https://bit.ly/479RAMU

Let's go to the Movies!The Creative Center is thrilled to partner with filmmaker—and TCC Training Institute attendee and...
05/20/2025

Let's go to the Movies!

The Creative Center is thrilled to partner with filmmaker—and TCC Training Institute attendee and presenter—Sarah Friedland, along with Arts & Minds, to present a FREE screening of the powerful new film, FAMILIAR TOUCH.

FAMILIAR TOUCH is a film for those who are aging, those who are caring, and those who have been cared for: in other words, all of us. FAMILIAR TOUCH arrives in select theaters June 20 before expanding nationwide.

Experiments in Yes!Join this exploratory space for movement and dance in which we seek to find the feeling of “Yes” in o...
05/16/2025

Experiments in Yes!

Join this exploratory space for movement and dance in which we seek to find the feeling of “Yes” in our bodies.

Through guided warm-ups, prompts for improvisation, and multi-modal thematic material, we will experiment with movement qualities and “try things on” in a nonjudgmental and supportive group space.
Experiments in Yes: A Movement Workshop
Facilitated by: Sammie Sachs
In-person @ 184 Eldridge Street
Fridays, June 6, 13, 20 and 27
12:00 - 2:00 PM EDT
Community members can register here: https://forms.gle/DhmpK3BzgjwvjQvo9
Interested in becoming a community member? Register here: https://bit.ly/479RAMU

Do you have a favorite bird? Or know a bird with an interesting story?In this class, you will create a 3-dimensional bir...
05/14/2025

Do you have a favorite bird? Or know a bird with an interesting story?

In this class, you will create a 3-dimensional bird using papier-mâché techniques for the body, wire for the feet, and paint the finished sculpture. In each class we will have fun building your own bird sculpture, and on the last day, you will have your own unique bird - standing or sitting on an actual tree branch to hang on the wall!

Bird on a Branch
Yunmee Kyong
In-person @ 184 Eldridge Street
Thursdays, June 5, 12 and 26
12:00 - 2:00 PM EDT
Community members can register here: https://forms.gle/gmYA4pbPaDCPmseJ8
Interested in becoming a community member? Register here: https://bit.ly/479RAMU

Explore the beauty of bead weaving rooted in indigenous tradition and personal expression. Join us for an engaging bead ...
05/13/2025

Explore the beauty of bead weaving rooted in indigenous tradition and personal expression.

Join us for an engaging bead weaving workshop where you'll learn two timeless techniques—Pe**te and Ndebele stitches—while creating your own handmade earrings and bracelets. This beginner-friendly session offers step-by-step guidance in pattern reading, stitch technique, and finishing methods.

Ancestral Threads: Crafting Jewelry with Pe**te & Ndebele Stitches
Omi Gray
VIRTUAL on ZOOM
Tuesdays, June 3, 10 and 24
11:00 - 1:00 PM EDT
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Materials list at registration.
Community members can register here: https://forms.gle/9hmDwA6WW8cA2f7w5
Interested in becoming a community member? Register here: https://bit.ly/479RAMU

Write a character as interesting and complex as you are!In this intro playwriting workshop, we will explore the ins and ...
04/16/2025

Write a character as interesting and complex as you are!

In this intro playwriting workshop, we will explore the ins and outs of writing a unique character for the stage. What makes a character memorable or a villain so evillll? Through writing exercises and class discussion, students will get comfortable writing characters that make an impact on the stage.

Who am I?? Character Development for Playwriting
Catherine Weingarten
VIRTUAL on ZOOM
Tuesdays, May 13, 21 and 27
1:00 - 3:00 PM EDT
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Materials list at registration.
Community members can register here: https://forms.gle/tP2Q93KnJKYtJpgJ8
Interested in becoming a community member? Register here: https://bit.ly/479RAMU

Join us on an adventure of looking at the world around us through the viewfinder of yarn. Our work will involve some exp...
04/14/2025

Join us on an adventure of looking at the world around us through the viewfinder of yarn.

Our work will involve some exploration of making stitches (knit, crochet, embroidery); writing words about our experiences and ideas; note-taking and journaling how we see the world around us.

The resulting “book” that each of us creates will likely take different shapes: knitted, crocheted, sewn, embroidered, filled with writing, drawings, ideas, sketches, swatches of fiber, snippets of poems, notes of inspirations from our own environments.

Pre-requisite: be comfortable with the basics of knitting and/or crochet.

Fiber Journals: Looking at your World Through a Yarny Lens
Lisa Daehlin
VIRTUAL on ZOOM
Mondays, May 5, 12, 19 and 26
11:00 am - 1:00 PM EDT
Materials list at registration.
Community members can register here: https://forms.gle/b1ztJvx2RrTCME8NA
Interested in becoming a community member? Register here: https://bit.ly/479RAMU

Take a hands-on journey into both two- and three-dimensional creativity. Working with wire and cut paper, participants a...
04/10/2025

Take a hands-on journey into both two- and three-dimensional creativity.

Working with wire and cut paper, participants are able to make Alexander Calder inspired works. Lightly sculpting wire with your hands or tools. The wire will display colorful shapes you create.

Participants will be able to work with color, form, and motion. The process will engage kinetic creativity and allow participants to create compositions with gravity and balance.

Paper Hanging Mobiles
Rachel Williams
IN-PERSON @ 184 Eldridge Art Room
Fridays, May 2, 9, 16 and 23
12:00 - 2:00 PM EDT
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Materials will be provided.
Community members can register here: https://forms.gle/YygxT6m2wja5vYfHA
Interested in becoming a community member? Register here: https://bit.ly/479RAMU

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Monday 10am - 6pm
Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
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