COVID-19 News Contact Us My Public Art Portal Menu Dry Creek 2nd grader shows how she interpreted emotion through music, color, and line after reading the story, The Way I Feel. Photo courtesy of Port Angeles School District. (May 26, 2021) Creative Start is a statewide arts integration and early learning program. The program includes grants for schools and regional leaders, community-based professional learning opportunities, and a studio of resources to support students, teachers, and families. Creative Start program goals: Support creative, academic, and social emotional learning to close the opportunity gap for Washington’s youngest learners. Foster statewide teacher-leadership in culturally responsive arts integration. Develop statewide capacity to offer high-quality professional learning in arts education. Creative Start Grant This grant supports arts integration efforts in early learning communities. Opens March 10, 2022 Closes April 14, 2022 Creative Start Studio Arts Integration Resources for educators, families and caregivers. Creative Start Spotlight ArtsWA’s Creative Start program has teamed up with teaching artists from across the state to create a series of arts integrated mini-lessons for parents, caregivers, and educators of early learners (age 3-8). This video series was developed to support mindfulness, creativity, fun, and stress relief for early learners and their caregivers through the COVID-19 related stress and beyond. In times of uncertainty, we need more creativity! View the entire mini-lesson series & more: https://www.arts.wa.gov/creative-start-studio/ Arts in Education Grants Creative Start Creative Start Studio Poetry Out Loud Register for Poetry Out Loud Resources for Teachers & Students Teaching Artist Training Lab TAT Lab Core Program Advocacy and Research Arts Uplift! Conference Special thanks to the Laird Norton Family Foundation for their support of the Creative Start program and dedication to increasing the growth of arts integration in public education. Contact us If you have any questions about the Creative Start program, please contact: Alexis Sarah, Project Manager: alexis.sarah@arts.wa.gov, 360-228-6359 LOCATION: 711 Capitol Way S., Suite 600 Olympia, WA 98501-1293 MAILING ADDRESS: PO Box 42675 Olympia, WA 98504-2675 PHONE: 360-753-3860 FAX: 360-586-5351 About ArtsWA Meet our Staff News Agency Policies Public Records Request Site Map Contact Us My Public Art Portal Grants Public Art Program Creative Districts Arts in Education Partners Poetry Out Loud Teaching Artist Training Lab Governor’s Arts & Heritage Awards Washington State Poet Laureate Creative Forces Center for Washington Cultural Traditions Search for: Copyright, 2019, Washington State Arts Commission Web Design & Development by Buildable